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It’s officially what the White House calls “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month.” Though I’m gay, I feel something besides pride on the occasion. The socially compulsory celebration now is something to dread. It means that for the entire month of June, you’ll get to hear about the plight of transgender people, just like you do the other 11 months of the year. It also means your social media feeds have become one long rainbow, littered with tacky memes about how we must “protect trans kids” and “respect polyamorous asexuals” or whatever. Or, if you lean right (which today means anywhere to the left of Mao Zedong), you’ll see a billion posts about how Bud Light betrayed the Founding Fathers by hiring Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson.

The federal government has committed $25 million to create Canada’s first-ever LGBTQ entrepreneurship program, an investment one trailblazer called a “game-changer.”

Small Business and Economic Development Minister Mary Ng said the program will help build a more inclusive economy and society.

“This is the first program of its kind in the world,” she said in an interview after the announcement at the Global 2SLGBTQI+ Business Summit and Supplier Diversity Forum in Kingston, Ont.

It’s the only one because no one else is dumb enough to waste money on this crap.

h/t Mauser

It’s June, when one can be forgiven for thinking we live in the United States of LGBTQIA2S+.

Old Glory is, at best, supplemented with, and sometimes supplanted by, the pride flag in all its varieties.

The flag, which has become more and more unsightly, is ubiquitous. Its increasingly elaborate jumble of clashing stripes — whether seen in a store, at a ball game, or on U.S. government buildings — is a reminder to get with the program, and that the program is always changing.

For a month that’s supposed to be all about love and acceptance, Pride has a pretty nasty streak. Maybe that’s what one of the mysterious colours on its indecipherable flag represents: the cruelty community.

Consider Oxfam’s Pride animation, which it tweeted out earlier this week. Alongside all the usual Pride platitudes – we must love and respect LGBTQIA+ people, the cartoon characters say – the video went in for some Terf-bashing too.

As an Edmontonian, I have to be honest about my initial reaction to audio of a local teacher berating Muslim students who skipped class during Pride events. That reaction was, of course, a spasm of post-traumatic stress. I have been in the presence of teachers punctuating a very funny meltdown with warnings of, “It’s not funny.” I may even have been the cause of some.

No mercy for a relief pitcher who wouldn’t grovel enough.

Pride Month is off with a bang for the Toronto Blue Jays.

The team just cut one of its relief pitchers, Anthony Bass, for not being (to adopt the latest lingo from MLB.com) pro-LGBTQ2S+ enough.

They reduce the individual to something sub-human, to mere sexual desire or preferred pronouns.

On Thursday of this week, “Pride Month” will be upon us once again, and the LGBTQ lobby is harder at work than perhaps ever before. Whether it’s Target pushing trans-oriented “tucking” and “binding” clothes for toddlers or the Los Angeles Dodgers dubbing an anti-Catholic hate group composed of drag performers “community heroes,” the rainbow mafia’s stormtroopers in stilettos are marching on, trampling anyone in their path. Why is the LGBTQ lobby so powerful? Why are its adherents — relatively few in number — such ardent devotees? And why has the alphabet reich’s socio-political blitzkrieg advanced with such devastating alacrity?

A local politician who led a push to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in Norwich Township quit mid-meeting Tuesday night as her council colleagues gave final approval to a ban on non-government flags, including Pride flags, on municipal property.