Editing revision 6 of 2017-02 Questions For Pride

This page tabulates questions and comments from our members to take to Pride. The number in parentheses, e.g. (3) indicates how many people asked this or a similar question. Total respondents: 4 ==Questions== * (1) Why is the Pride Committee allowing the black community to discriminate against the police department by asking them not to be part of the Pride parade ? ** "This goes against everything thing that we stand for." * (2) I would like to know who made this decision. Was the decision not to participate made by the police, and if so, why, or if it was made by the pride committee, and if so, why? * (1) Why is Halifax Pride being expanded beyond LGBT? What is Queer? Questioning? Is not LGBT a sufficiently inclusive definition? What is the difference between Bi and two-spirited? * (1) Is Halifax Pride still an LGBT event? Or is it a LGBTTTQQIAA event? Who, when and how was the change decided? * (1) What happened to the registration forms from the General Assembly? We want to be involved but have heard nothing since the assembly. The Halifax Pride site is not accepting volunteers for 2017. ====Comments== * I disagree with omitting police in uniform from taking part in the HFX Pride parade. My main concern is the act exclusion because Lgbtq+ folks have so often been excluded and I don't wish to do this to any other group or individual. * The Pride Parade should have a a float or open vehicle that members of our community can ride on in the parade (not a bus- which hides them from sight and precludes their ability to fully participate). This would enable any member of the community who cannot physically walk the route for reasons of age or disability to be visibly participate in the parade. * I was appalled and disheartened to hear on the CBC radio news this week that the police will not be marching in this year's Halifax Pride parade. I am aware that the police are not marching in this year's Toronto Pride Parade due to concerns raised by Black Lives Matter. I believe very strongly that the Halifax Pride Parade should continue its history of standing up for inclusion and diversity and that if the police don't participate it sends entirely the wrong message to the public. I feel so strongly about this issue that despite the fact that I have been participating in Halifax Pride since the 1980s, I may not be able to participate this year. * My concerns are: ** That Halifax Pride remain an all-inclusive event. That no sector or group be excluded. That Jewish-Israeli groups be allowed to participate without harassment. ** That Halifax Pride is being infiltrated by extremist groups with esoteric agendas. I do not understand why a First Nation religious ceremony was included in the General Assembly. Why wasn't there a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, a Muslim iman, a Hindu guru, a Buddhist priest? How is it that they were allowed to blow smoke in people's faces in a no-smoking, no scents area. This could have been done outside and not in the assembly hall and certainly not during the assembly time. This was forced upon the participants, I had no choice whether to participate or not. I have nothing against First Nation, but why the special privileges? ** That Halifax Pride has a clear purpose and agenda: to celebrate freedom to choose your own sexual orientation and not be discriminated against as a result of your sexual orientation. The problem is where is the fine line between an acceptable orientation and deviant behaviour such as bestiality and pedophilia. I don't know where that line is but as a gay man I do feel that there are limits.

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