Happy Pride Toronto!

Sorry, I haven't been posting lately. I'm just living in the real world more often I guess. It's summer after all.

So to kick it off right, I went to the Dyke March today - and it was fun! There were so many women from "Dykes with Tikes" - way to go mommies!

Tomorrow is the Pride Parade and I"ll definitely be there too.

I want to write something more thoughtful about these events though. One really can't help but notice all the sponsorship from large corporations and namely banks, something does leave me restless about all this.

So here are some more 'radical' links regarding the recent corporatization of Toronto's "Pride".

Limp Fist (Toronto specific)
Gay Shame

I really have come to believe that all 'politics' have been co-opted by neoliberalism. Namely anything that came out of the early years 'identity politics' era... feminism of course included.

Case in point, Toronto has a 'gay radio station'.... This could be viewed as a great thing... but I have to wonder if a new Pakistani immigrant gay man is seriously listening to 24 hours of Gloria Estefan, Beyonce and disco anything.... And I wonder why they aren't playing more Queen (fronted of course by the very gay Freddy Mercury) or Judas Priest (fronted by Rob Halford). An argument could of course be made that they were both in the closet at the peak of their careers.

But I guess my problem lies more with how 'gayness' or the much touted term "pride" is defined, and on whose terms.... but I could be making something out of nothing.

I dunno, makes me wonder....

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Tribe blesses lesbian 'marriage'

Some happy news on an otherwise bad day! New meaning to "everyday is like Sunday".

An Indian tribe has given its consent to a lesbian 'marriage' in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Source.