Library banned
This just in: Vancouver’s Pride Society has told the Vancouver Public Library it can’t participate in the Pride Parade.
The Pride Society says the Vancouver Public Library is no longer permitted to take part because it allowed “transphobic and anti-sex worker” speaker, Meghan Murphy, to book space for an event in January.
Meghan is not “transphobic” and she is not “anti-sex worker” unless you restrict the meaning of “sex-worker” to pimps.
“VPS asserts that the conduct reflected both at this event, and in past public comments by these speakers, are discriminatory in a way that violates the British Columbia Human Rights Code,” the society says in a statement.
It can assert all it likes, but that doesn’t make it true.
Earlier this month, the University of British Columbia was barred from marching in the Vancouver Pride Parade because it hosted a controversial anti-SOGI speaker in June.
There will be fewer but better Russians marchers.
I’m waiting for the announcement of J. Yaniv as parade Grand Marshall…
I wonder if some of the people who work for the library are secretly happy to be freed from the obligation of being forced allies for the parade?
Yay further atomising and bridge-burning! The chief beneficiary of this: everyone opposed to feminism.
I have tickets to an event I’ve been very excited to take a womanfriend to with me. I just found out it’s being hosted by Vancouver Pride Society.
I know the money goes to the facility physically hosting it but I’m worried Pride is going to make the event shit.