PRIDE LIVES HERE

SOMETHING a little different folks.
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 My town isn't doing it, maybe there is a town or city in the U.S. that is, but not that I have heard of.

 But in Northern Ontario, a couple of smaller cities have decided to show their support for the LGBTQ community by encouraging it's citizens to show off their colors:




Why a northern Ontario group is declaring that Pride Lives Here

While one town has rejected the push to declare June a local Pride Month, Fort Frances’s Borderland Pride is supporting LGBTQ visibility — and acceptance — in the north.

When the organizers of Fort Frances’s Borderland Pride learned of the extended closure of the Canada-U.S. border and other pandemic-related measures, they decided to take their Pride Month celebrations — which, in the past, have included one of the world’s only cross-border Pride parades — online and, in some cases, onto people’s lawns.

However, at least one town has rejected the push to declare June a local Pride Month, and advocates say the decision exposes entrenched homophobia and transphobia in northwestern Ontario and underscores the importance of Pride festivals.
On May 21, Emo’s town council defeated a proposed Pride Month resolution that would have had local leadership commit to flying a rainbow flag at municipal headquarters. Emo mayor Harold McQuaker, who cast the deciding vote, said that he represented the majority of Emo’s 1,400 residents, referred to the town as a Christian community.
As Emo council doubled down on its decision, the Pride Lives Here campaign ramped up. Borderland signs and billboards started going up in Thunder Bay on May 28. The campaign ran out of signs two days later, after having distributed more than 400 throughout the region’s largest urban centre. Demand in Fort Frances has also outstripped supply: 250 signs have gone out, and a second print run is underway. 

THE FULL STORY:
https://www.tvo.org/article/why-a-northern-ontario-group-is-declaring-that-pride-lives-here

Pride Lives Here campaign

THUNDER BAY – Residents across Thunder Bay are getting on board with a campaign designed to celebrate and support the 2SLGBTIQ+ community. Hundreds of colourful signs are popping up on local lawns as part of the Pride Lives Here campaign.



Would you support such an initiative in your community?




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