In a hearing convened by Canada’s Alberta Human Rights Tribunal on Monday, the lawyer for an anti-transgender advocate in the small town of Westlock (90 miles north of Edmonton), argued that a flyer distributed by her client calling on residents to protest the installation of a rainbow crosswalk with a trans flag was not hate speech, but an exercise in “free speech.”
“Could it be upsetting? Yes. Could it cause hurt feelings? Yes. But does it cause a person to feel hatred or contempt for trans individuals? We will say the answer to that question is a resounding no,” attorney Allison Pejovic said in opening remarks at the hearing.
There’s a rainbow painted on a roundabout where I live, and to hear my craft group tell it, this rainbow of the gays was going to kill people. Money should have gone to something useful. (In a shopping filled with art and allowed graffiti.)
Realising how LGBTQ+phobic they were I don’t talk to them anymore, and the rainbow roundabout is still there.
The rainbow makes us giggle, it’s very out of place and lovely.
(I miss having friends to craft with, but I don’t miss socializing with people who think those I love are the worst evil simply for existing. Fuck them.)