The challenges and successes were real, numerous, and life-changing for all: protection against discrimination in housing, employment, and immigration the right to adopt children the right to receive benefits in common law relationships the right to serve your country the eventual and important addition of sexual orientation into the Canadian Human Rights Act.
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Just as often, courageous individuals were forced to step forward, at considerable risk to themselves, and brave the storm on everyone else’s behalf. Often, these earlier civil rights accomplishments were achieved in the midst of general disinterest, or even active, hostile resistance. The term “pride” was still true to itself at that time, it’s underlying meaning having something to do with dignity, self-respect, and honour it had yet to begin its deterioration into entitlement, self-pity, and narcissism. For this reason, it seems more important than ever to review past victories and acknowledge the decades of committed work the hard-won, slogging gains which once warranted authentic, blissed-out street parties - the sort of uninhibited celebrations at which no corporate entity, foundation representative, or wily politician would have been caught dead. Many of the public who line the route (virtual or actual) of these Pride celebrations would be mystified - even horrified - to know that, for droves of feminists, same-sex attracted men and women, and discerning people of all variety, June is a month where we mourn what the LGBTQ+ movement has wrought. All except the Ls, Gs, and Bs, who either dropped into an icy crevice, or were cannibalized somewhere along the way. And, day after day, over an ever-expanding month (even June seems to have been coerced into rethinking its limits), the citizenry will be urged, prodded, and bulldozed into acknowledging the achievements and struggles of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer, Non-Binary, Pansexual, Intersex, and Two-Spirit People, as if they were a band of explorers that had staggered back into civilization after discovering the Northwest Passage… Again. Those few storefronts not already exhibiting the rainbow sticker will get stuck with one now. “Transgender youth” workshops will be held where people mistake the surrender of children to dangerous illusions with kindness and inclusivity. For this reason, it is time, once again, to spruce up the city crosswalks, hoist a scrap of rainbow over City Hall, and “get with” the spirit of the parade.
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Its symbol - the hijacked, mangled rainbow - flies high over the empire of gender authoritarianism, where trans activism, the pharmaceutical industry, politics, media, and assorted foundations, are intent on obliterating women’s rights, and turning children into medically-dependant, physical, and psychological wrecks for the rest of their lives. Once again we find ourselves living under the flag of Pride. June is here again - the month when some of us fondly recall celebrations past, and do our best to survive the present moment’s carnival of doom.