Justin Trudeau becomes first Canadian PM to march in Toronto Pride parade

“So having them walking instead of being on a float will not be the end of the world for me”.

The parade resumed after Pride executive director Mathieu Chantelois and board co-chair Alica Hall reviewed and signed the list of demands on the spot.

Pride Toronto is backing away from the promises made to Black Lives Matter Toronto during a protest that temporarily shut down the Pride Parade. Various members of Black Lives Matter lit flares and chanted “Shut it down!”

The president for the union representing the city’s police officers said he’s outraged that Pride would accept the demands.

But on Monday, Chantelois told CP24 he didn’t agree to everything on the list, only to have a conversation about the demands.

“This is not what this event is about”. “This safe, inclusive and welcoming celebration has empowered us and strengthened our unity, resilience and resolve to fight discrimination, hatred and violence”. “This is about inclusiveness, it’s about community and now they’ve attempted to drive a wedge in that community”.

Williams says any surprise at the group’s inclusion is rooted in a lack of knowledge about the contributions of black trans and queer people in early Pride movements.

Numerous officers seemed to be enjoying the experience, posing for pictures and tweeting them.

Also joining the march was Bassel Mcleash, a gay Syrian refugee who marched beside Mr Trudeau during his first ever Gay Pride.

“What I did yesterday was made the parade move”. But as Diverlus explained, “Police are a group of people who have brought so much trauma and so much violence to our community”.

They wrote: “Apparently to some, our demands are “too radical/divisive”.

“I speak as an individual”, Krangle said, “one who saw his first Pride, only to be excluded from the next”.

The prime minister was in good spirits as he waved a rainbow flag and greeted excited bystanders who lined the 36th annual parade route. “If they truly want to honour us, they can accept these demands”.

Carroll said because of that, “it’s hard to say what a bad shame” the protest was. “He was really in his element and he didn’t comment or come near to the sit-in protest”.

One, Const. Chuck Krangle, even sent an open letter to Pride organizers. “Militarizing these events increases the potential for harm to our communities and we hope in the future SF Pride will consider community-centered approaches to security at pride events”.

Black Lives Matter was given the status of Honoured Group, but they didn’t give Pride Toronto an advanced notice of their plan to interrupt the event. “Or that it was the bodies, organising brilliance, and hearts of Black, Latinx, & Brown people and communities that created Pride”.

BLM-TO co-founder Rodney Diverlus says, while the issues his group raised at the parade may be new to some, these are changes they’ve been requesting for years.