Toronto cop cars lgbtq
I saw this terrible Pride police ride a few weeks ago at Yonge and College but it was turning a corner way too fast for me to get a pic and prove it wasn’t a pinkwashed fever dream. But today on the way to my massage I spotted it on Church avenue. Just sitting there, empty, trying to look like a friendly fixture of the gay village. Suspish. It’s got lights on it so it’s clearly used to depart to emergency situations and not just driving around to make the Toronto Police department stare good. It looks ridiculous. My massage therapist said probably a bunch of white gays are happy about it somewhere ha ha. Oh my god.
Anyway this post isn’t all about how ridiculous the Event police car is.
I actually wanted to write here because I was talking in therapy about being sad about people who basically left my experience either just before or at the beginning of my transition and how I’m a whole different person since then. I don’t know if I am a improve person. I am a happier person though and I feel really excellent about my body now and I feel more confident and just, yeah a whole other person. I’m not saying these people left my experience because of my tran
Activists Campaign to Stop Police From Participating in Canadian Pride Events
Black LGBTQ activist Akio Maroon was driving her car in Toronto in May 2015 when she was stopped by a police officer.
She said he asked to spot her insurance, stating that people were using imitation insurance papers. She said three more police cars showed up, but she was eventually let proceed without a ticket or explanation of why she was stopped.
“There’s this assumption if you’re black … you’re up to no good," Maroon told NBC Out.
During the incident, which lasted an hour and a half, she idea about the killings of black people by police in Canada and the United States. She wondered if she would witness her two young children again.
“I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it,” she said.
As an executive with a charity that supports sex workers, Maroon said she repeatedly hears of police targeting racial minorities and transgender people within the community, such as police stopping them and asking for personal information –- a practice similar to stop-and-frisk.
It is that horror of police that has led activists to campaign against police groups attending Pride parades this year in cities across Canada.
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