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Queers Against Israeli Apartheid drops banner during Toronto Pride

At Toronto Pride today, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) dropped a giant banner reading "Support Palestinian Queers -- Boycott Israeli Tourism".

"We're drawing attention to Israel's use of LGBT rights as a propaganda tool to justify apartheid policies and the occupation of Palestinian territories," said QuAIA spokesperson and longtime gay rights activist Tim McCaskell. "We're saying to queer people, respect yourselves and others. Don't be used. Don't pinkwash apartheid. Boycott gay tourism to Israel until it ends its apartheid policies."

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Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wins battle against censorship

Pride Toronto backs down on decision to censor group at 2010 Pride Parade

For Immediate Release - June 23, 2010

TORONTO - Queers Against Israeli Apartheid congratulates Toronto's LGBT community for successfully reversing censorship at the 2010 Pride Parade. Pride Toronto announced today that it would not censor the term ‘Israeli apartheid' from the parade.

"This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, which has faced censorship and bullying tactics from the Israel lobby for far too long," says Tim McCaskell, a member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. "The Israel lobby learned a tough lesson today about our community's proud history of standing up to censorship and human rights abuses."

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Pride Toronto honourees return awards over censorship

Twenty-three people -- including former Grand Marshals and  Honoured Dykes --  protested the censorship of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the banning of the group from Pride 2010. Photo: John Bonnar.
Twenty-three people -- including former Grand Marshals and Honoured Dykes -- protested the censorship of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and the banning of the group from Pride 2010.

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Open Letter to the Toronto Pride Committee from founders of Pride in 1981:

As founding members of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, and people involved in organizing the first Pride event in Toronto at the end of June in 1981, we stand totally opposed to the decision of the current Toronto Pride Committee to ban the use of "Israeli Apartheid" at Toronto Pride events.

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| The intersections of local queer organizing, anti-colonial and no-borders analyses. The recent victories and struggles of organizing in these realms.

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