ICYMI - Justin Ling: Forget Pride parades. Ask Tory candidates about real LGBTQ issues
Nothing particularly special happens when you attend a Pride parade. You’ll have a good time, maybe you get hit with a water gun, or a drag queen gives you a back-handed compliment.But to hear the Canadian political media tell it, the parade is a real baptism by glitter. And reporters and pundits really want every politician to go through that trial-by-Cher.
Conversion therapy — a misnomer, as it neither converts queer kids, nor gives them therapy, but instead uses quack psychology to try to force them to hide their sexuality or gender — remains legal and practised in parts of the country. Given these real problems, does the amount of oxygen and time put towards wondering will-they-or-won’t-they march in Pride seem sensible?Given these real problems, does the amount of time put towards wondering will-they-or-won’t-they march in Pride seem sensible?
Interrogating the candidates on those issues, I suppose, would require a level of competency on queer issues that the Canadian media, with some exceptions, doesn’t have. And apparently doesn’t care to gain.
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