Fierté gaie: un défilé de toutes les couleurs La Presse Plus de 100 000 personnes ont assisté dimanche au 18ème défilé de la Fierté gaie, à Montréal. Si les hommes courts vêtus et les transsexuels aux décolletés affolants ont été remarqués sur le parcours du défilé, des visages moins habituels s’y sont associés: celui des hommes [...]

Protest group to march at Montreal Pride Queers Against Israeli Apartheid will be in parade, but its banners must be approved beforehand BY IRWIN BLOCK, THE GAZETTE AUGUST 6, 2010 MONTREAL – For the second year in a row, a group calling itself Queers Against Israeli Apartheid will be part of Montreal’s Gay Pride parade on [...]

Montreal Pride parade will include controversial group Montreal’s gay pride festival organizers will allow a controversial group to march in this year’s pride parade, but say they will be monitoring the group’s message. The Toronto-based Queers Against Israeli Apartheid was almost banned from Toronto’s pride festival after critics lobbied city council to have it cut [...]

Montreal gay pride parade to go on despite funding shortfall By: Irwin Block, Montreal Gazette MONTREAL – Though 10 per cent of its $725,000 budget has not come through as expected, the Montreal Pride celebrations will go ahead as planned starting August 10. “We’re in the hole today, looking at a deficit of about $75,000,” [...]

US rabbis: Accept homosexuals Dozens of Orthodox leaders publish statement saying that although Judaism ‘cannot give its blessing and imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commitment ceremonies and weddings,’ community must still accept ‘practicing’ gay couples and their children into synagogues, schools Kobi Nahshoni Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have signed a statement of principles saying that [...]

U.S. Orthodox rabbis urge community to accept gays and lesbians By Haaretz Service Statement of principles issued by rabbis and educators says ‘heterosexual marriage is sole legitimate outlet for human sexual expression’ but calls for acceptance. Dozens of Orthodox rabbis and educators have signed what they call a “statement of principles” regarding the acceptance of [...]

Pride reverses ban on phrase ‘Israeli apartheid’ Terrine Friday June 24, 2010 – 9:24 am Peter Redman/National Post Toronto’s annual Gay Pride Parade, shown here in 2008, draws over a million spectators to Yonge Street. Pride Toronto has rescinded its controversial ban on the phrase “Israeli apartheid” just a week before its annual parade. Pride Toronto [...]