No pride in police history of neglect and violence against queer communities

The history of police violence against queer communities in Canada has been well documented, although their experiences continue to be erased from the mainstream narrative.

Toronto Police are pictured at the Toronto Pride parade on July 3, 2016, which was temporarily halted when members of Black Lives Matter Toronto demonstrated and called for, among other things, the removal of uniformed police participation in the event. Flickr photograph by Eric Parker

Opinion

BY AREZOO NAJIBZADEH AND ERICA IFILL

June 17, 2020

OTTAWA—Some of you are new to caring about the humanity of Black lives. And it shows. In 2016, when Black Lives Matter defiantly stopped Toronto’s Pride Parade for 30 minutes to demand an end to uniformed and armed police presence—a parade that prominently featured the prime minister—they w...

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