LGBTQ+ activists are organizing Pro-Palestine Pride, and demanding mainstream events cut ties with sponsors complicit in Israel’s assault on Gaza

According to Bain in Toronto, a reliance on funding from corporations and the Canadian government has made pride festivals and other major LGBTQ+ organizations, like Egale and Rainbow Canada, beholden to those funders.

“They are forced into silence,” Bain said, referring to mainstream Pride organizers. “They have chosen to be silent as well, because they have chosen to accept the funding. And they have chosen to align themselves with state policies that actually support Israel, and then also support the pinkwashing that Israel does.”

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
    34·
    5 months ago

    You can be against Israel’s actions while also being against Islam and middle east’s treatment of LGBT folks.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Of course, but you can’t fight everyone.

      Choosing your battles and focusing your efforts wisely can generally accomplish more.

      • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
        14·
        5 months ago

        We should just agree to pick one geopolitically unpopular genocide and oppose it real firmly, and let the others slide. Makes sense.

      • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
        10·
        5 months ago

        Okay, I choose the one that is bribing our government and carrying out genocide, Not the ones starving to death and getting bombed out of existence then.

      • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
        3·
        5 months ago

        Of course, but you can’t fight everyone.

        Clearly some can, and it’s a group large enough to make it to the headline