The homosexual community is now up in arms after Stephen Harper announced that he will not help fund the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto this year. The gays are calling this an act of homophobia; however, Harper did give the parade money last year. $400,000 to be exact. So did Harper magically obtain homophobia over the course of the last year? Tracey Sandilands seems to believe so, saying “So the only thing it can be is some kind of homophobia.” Really? That’s the only thing that it could be? How about a stricter budget? What the Conservatives did was fund fewer major city events, and started focusing on the smaller ones.

I’ve talked about the government wasting their money on the Gay Pride Parade last year, but I was told that it brings in a lot of money. If that is true, where is the money today? Hell, I’ve heard reports that it brought in $100,000,000 if that’s true then Harper’s $400,000 means nothing. People already know about this parade, and it’s going to have the same turnout regardless of the extra Harper money. People aren’t going for the expensive fireworks at the end, they are going for the message.

It should be funded by the municipal government instead seeing how Toronto gets the tourists. The majority of the attendees at this parade are Canadians anyways, so the $400,000 is just making the Canadians waste money in Toronto instead of wasting it in Montreal.

This is a festival that should be able to support itself, it shouldn’t need to rely on the government to help it anymore. There are tons of events that make money without the help of the government, why can’t the gay community?

Is this homophobia? Hardly. I hate to use the word “butthurt” here but it is exactly how the gay community is acting right now. Calm down, no one is taking away your rights. You still have the right to vote, the right to live, and the same rights everyone else has. It’s just that your event didn’t get money. Oh well big deal, the straight-pride parade didn’t get any money either, where are my rights?

So where did all the millions of revenue from the previous parade go? Probably spent on sex toys and lube.