667...Gays And B'nai Brith Knock Heads

It is Pride Week in Montreal [don't get me started] and the big parade is this Sunday.

Headline in today's Montreal Gazette emphatically states Anti-Israel agitators trying to 'hijack' Gay Parade: B'Nai Brith.

Here is the sitch. The Q-Team is marching in the Pride Montreal parade and their message is Israeli apartheid has to end. Ever the champion of free speech, Frank Dimant, the VP in charge of being pissed off at stuff for B'nai Brith says that the parade is no place for politics stating that the days of politicized marches are a thing of the past.

Q-Team spokesperson Leila Pourtvas, a Canadian of Iranian ancestry, replies that being queer is political in and of itself and that bringing a political issue to the table is not meant to hijack a parade but merely to increase awareness.

There was a similar fuss at this year's Toronto Pride, funded in part by the benevolence of Stephen Harper's Conservatives, but Queers Against Israeli Apartheid were allowed to march despite the demands by B'nai Brith that they not be allowed to do so.

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