e.309 - #NoPrideInPolicing: Toronto Police & The Corporate Pride ft. Beverly Bain and Nick Mulé by #WeAreUofT Art by Micah Bazant. This interview takes up the relationship between Toronto’s Annual Pride festival and the Toronto Police Service. We’re examining the fallout between Pride Toronto and racialized members of the LGBTQ2S community in the City of Toronto following Pride Toronto’s decision to allow Toronto Police to participate in the 2019 Pride Festival, taking place in June of next year. This decision comes down after Toronto Police were banned from marching in uniform in the 2017 Pride celebration following an action from Black Lives Matter activists. As Toronto gears up for the 2019 Pride festival, this decision was quickly and quietly reversed. We’re joined by two community activists to discuss what happened, the rise of the No Pride in Policing Coalition, and why a growing number of queer/racialized communities in the City are calling for a new kind of Pride. Beverly Bain is a Black queer Feminist activist and scholar. She teaches in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Nick Mulé is the founder and a current Member at Large of Queer Ontario, an associate professor of Social Work and Sexuality Studies at York University and a psychotherapist in private practice.
