Aug 21, 2017

October Pride - Love, Sackville NB Canada 2015





First Pride Parade! Pre-Federal election October 6, 2015 town of sackville and mount allison university / two flag raisings ... over 200 fun, friendly people listened to the speakers liberal party dominic leblanc mp, rev. john perkin of mount allison university [who proclaimed "we are all global citizens on unceded territory' as he stood on the campus] 
After the campus flag raising, walk through town, town flag raising, there was a BBQ party at the town park.

Pride 2016, I couldn't attend... but Oct 6, 2016 special 'pride' issue of the students' newspaper "The Argosy" at mta.ca article entitled "Policed Pride" Tasia Alexopoulous, a professor of women's and gender studies at Mount Allison University and attendee of the parade says: "For so many reasons, its just not appropriate anymore to have police presence at any queer event. They don't protect us, and their presence is traumatic to a lot of people and symbolically unacceptable." ... Well Tasia... darling... it seems to me the police are damned if they do and damned if they don't ... you do realize they are there for your group's security and support? Holycrap.....

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