Pride is one of Toronto's biggest tourist attractions and a massive boon to the local economy… so naturally our fiscally minded mayor is going to skip it and head to the cottage instead.Today, Gayronto’s slowest-learning mayor Rob Ford told reporters that, instead of attending this year’s Pride parade (Toronto is home to one of the largest pride parades, this year held over the Canada Day long weekend, and in 2014 will host WorldPride ), he’ll be going to the cottage. Richie Rich defended his decision by saying, “Since I [was] a little boy we always used to go up north to to our cottage and I’m carrying on the tradition that my father had,” and that he left his mayoral campaign for the same reason last year.
It’s been well-established by Rob Ford many, many, many times that he’s not a friend to his gay constituents. Brother Doug Ford has, as usual, attempted to control the most recent damage by saying that he might come back to Toronto on the Sunday of the long weekend for the parade, despite having “20-odd people going up to our cottage for Canada Day.” (Oh, well, if there’s 20 people…) He also said, “We’ll see if I can bring Rob” and added, in classic I-have-a-black-friend Ford style, that at last year’s parade he handed out rainbow stickers. (Ford’s predecessor, one-time Fab magazine leather-daddy cover boy David Miller, marched in Pride; so did the second-most-offensive mayor, Mel Lastman.)
Aside from the lazy homophobia of not showing up for such an important event is the kind of basic economic hypocrisy that Ford made a career of criticizing. Pride is big business, with a million people attending in 2010, and $136 million being spent during pride in 2009.
It’s been well-established by Rob Ford many, many, many times that he’s not a friend to his gay constituents. Brother Doug Ford has, as usual, attempted to control the most recent damage by saying that he might come back to Toronto on the Sunday of the long weekend for the parade, despite having “20-odd people going up to our cottage for Canada Day.” (Oh, well, if there’s 20 people…) He also said, “We’ll see if I can bring Rob” and added, in classic I-have-a-black-friend Ford style, that at last year’s parade he handed out rainbow stickers. (Ford’s predecessor, one-time Fab magazine leather-daddy cover boy David Miller, marched in Pride; so did the second-most-offensive mayor, Mel Lastman.)
Aside from the lazy homophobia of not showing up for such an important event is the kind of basic economic hypocrisy that Ford made a career of criticizing. Pride is big business, with a million people attending in 2010, and $136 million being spent during pride in 2009.
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