Pride Toronto asked: "Why are we erasing LGBT people from our own community?"

Pride Toronto's new mission statement

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...describes the organization’s mission with the deathless sentence: “Pride Toronto brings people together to celebrate the history, courage, diversity and future of our community.” ...

Look at that mission statement again. What “people” is it bringing together? What “community” is it celebrating?

If you didn’t know better, you might assume that Pride Toronto is just a celebration of moments in Toronto’s multicultural history.

Over the last decade, Pride has systematically worked to eliminate signifiers of the LGBT community from its name and branding....

What’s unclear is why, as a community, we’re in such a rush to indulge people who don’t see themselves in us. Let’s be clear: “Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans” is a pretty all-encompassing term for members of our community. “Two-spirit” acknowledges the unique form of gender and sexual fluidity in First Nations cultures. Beyond that, what did we need the other letters for anyway?

Allies, sorry, but if you can’t be an ally without taking over our name, you’re being a pretty shitty ally.

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