If he doesn’t submit to strolling down Yonge Street while getting soaked by leather-clad men armed with water guns, his critics will claim it’s proof he hates gays.īut there are some perfectly legitimate reasons to skip the annual bash. One of the first decisions premier-designate Doug Ford will need to make is whether to march in Toronto’s gay Pride parade later this month. Just in time for Pride Month, Josh deHaas has published a column in the National Post titled “I’m gay, and I wouldn’t blame Doug Ford for avoiding Toronto’s Pride Parade,” essentially concurring with McCullough’s thesis: The media and progressive politicians like to gang up on conservative politicians and demand that they show up and frolic with the crowds or be damned as unforgivable bigots, despite the fact that these events now regularly expose children to male adult nudity and simulated sex acts, something that progressives seem to collectively ignore. A few years back, my friend JJ McCullough published a rather unpopular column, noting that although Pride parades have become a litmus test for one’s level of tolerance these days, there are plenty of people-himself included-who simply find them distasteful displays of indecency.