Christie Blatchford: Gay police officers shunned in Toronto Pride grievance politics squabble - News Summed Up

Christie Blatchford: Gay police officers shunned in Toronto Pride grievance politics squabble


He’ll be lucky if he even gets a seat at the mythically big Pride table, once big enough for Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. But in the hierarchy of grievance politics — the notion that black gay and trans people are the most marginalized and have suffered the most — Krangle is just a cop, and a white one at that. As my friend and Postmedia colleague, the Toronto Sun editor emeritus Lorrie Goldstein, tweeted in the middle of the Black Lives Matter takeover of the Pride Parade on Sunday, “I love it. “Who’s deciding what’s in the parade is the membership, and my community,” he was saying late Monday. The Toronto police, unofficially and officially through the police union, are mighty peeved.


Source: National Post July 04, 2016 23:26 UTC



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