This ones for you Ms. Pinder (aka Pride!!!!)!!!!!

[mindtheft]

Um...so holy fuck. I seriously may have to reconsider all the Montreal vs. Toronto arguments I've had in the past 5 years because I've just spent the last half hour perusing the pages of the torontopride website! All I can say is wow!  While Divers/Cite pays mere lip service to the trans community , Pride Toronto seems to have understood the true politics of inclusion.  I say this because there is a stage specifically for transfolk, there is a women and trans only space in the beer gardens after the dyke march (which fully supports trans people!). This is amazing...just check out this list of performers (not necessarily all of them trans but nonetheless amazing!):

Julia Serano
Ivan E. Coyote
Hidden Cameras
Lyndell Montgomery
Ember Swift
Uh Huh Her
TRANS-FUCKING-X (aka the one hit wonder Vivre Sur Video/Living on Video)
DJ CPI
MEL C (a spice girl??)
Kids on T.V.
MEN (aka Le Tigre minus Kathleen Hannah)
Ari Up (from the Slits)

And those are just the performers, not to mention the community day, the plays, dance parties, etc etc etc!!!!!
I am so freaking out right now!

xoxo
Kate