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Maybe I just didn't 'do pride' enough this year. But all in all, I didn't see /that/ much worth causing a fuss over. Then again, I've never been to the parade portion of pride.
But from beer gardens / street wandering / etc - a few people taking things a little too far, but that happens at just about any big party / festival.
And while within Toronto, we may have come a long way in terms of acceptance / tolerance, there are people who travel from all over the world and come from cities / towns which are not as liberal as Toronto is. For them, pride still means something more than 'just a big party', but one of the few times a year they can really 'be gay' and not have it be an issue for them.
Funny though, so many people on this forum bitch about police doing their job by say, arresting people driving high, stopping people for speeding on the highway, shutting down illegal parties, raiding comfort zone, with various arguments like "I'm not hurting anyone", or "everyone is doing it", or "so what if someone likes to smoke a bit of pot"
But, when they start to break the law in some way that they find offensive (ie: walking down the street flapping their penis about), its now "omg, why arnt the police doing their job?!", when they would probably flip out if the police did their job and took away their open booze in public, or fined them for smoking a joint in a beer garden.
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