purple_pride epitome of incomprehensibility Half_asleep_thoughts: I have to get purple beads for the gay pride parade. Waking up: Mixing stuff up. Purple beads are for the artisan show, so you can make a pride flag to put with your other beaded flags. (It’s frustratingly hard to find small purple beads in a nice shade.) The Pride Parade is happening in Toronto now, not Montreal. From the personal and beadable to the historable... something I posted in a comment elsewhere, in which I report about things I wasn’t actually at... The Toronto Pride Parade happened today! Here’s a news article about it, with some pictures: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pride-parade-toronto-1.3662823 There was a sit-in by the Black Lives Matter group that stalled things for a few minutes. They were part of the parade, not an interruption – it’s just that they stopped moving to call attention to the BLM movement and how queer and trans people of colour were underrepresented in Pride. It got resolved calmly, but the right-wing outlets are making it out to be a big fight (surprise, surprise). Oh yeah, and Justin Trudeau was the first current prime minister to march in it! Admittedly, this isn’t a thing that takes a lot of effort, but it’s pretty exciting historically, especially if you consider that before 1969, gay sex (and by extension, being gay openly) was illegal. Even Pierre Trudeau (Justin’s father, by the way), who proposed the amendments to the Criminal Code that would decriminalize being gay, also sorta lumped queer people in with pedophiles when he said this in 1967: “Take this thing on homosexuality. I think the view we take here is that there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. I think that what’s done in private between adults doesn’t concern the Criminal Code. When it becomes public this is a different matter, or when it relates to minors this is a different matter.” So yeah… since then, progress! Here’s a timeline of gay rights in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/timeline-same-sex-rights-in-canada-1.1147516 (ETA: It’s a little silly that they call it “same-sex rights”, but anyway.) 160703 ... e_o_i (Oh yeah, and I just remembered this, too: doesn’t the Montreal one ALWAYS happen the same time the Dorval summer craft show is? Is that why J. missed it last year? Although the only craft thing she seems to be into there is pottery. Which is find. Friends do not have to be 100% the same, Eppy of Inpuppy.) 160703 ... e_o_i the post-Joycean Eppy of inpuppy indeed. Agenbite of inwit. 160703 ... e_o_i Montreal Pride didn't happen at the same time as Dorval Celebrates this year (Saturday vs. Sunday, a week apart) but it got canceled at the last minute because there weren't enough volunteers. Phooey and pah. 220827 ... e_o_i I mean the official parade was cancelled, not the other events. But the parade was supposed to be the main thing. Also, I'm never sure whether to spell it canceled or cancelled. It could be both, Google says, but how does one decide? Bisexuality doesn't make this easier, because it's not like one of them will become the love of my life. Or will it...? ("David...David, I have a confession to make." "What?" "I'm leaving you. For the word 'canceled' with one L." "Uh, what?" "The word 'canceled.' With one L. It's my soulmate." "I thought your soulmate was lunch.") 220827 what's it to you? who go blather from