Photo: Steve Ireson

Happy Pride Week!

My favourite time of year is officially underway, kicked off at noon today at City Hall by Mayor David Miller, Councilor Kyle Rae, and Pride Toronto co-chairs Margaret Ngai and Genevieve D’Iorio.

While I’m still shooting The Shaun Proulx Show on OUTtv, I’m also shooting a series for the network, called Summer of Pride.  Wherever you happen to be this summer you can catch the Pride parades live on outtv.ca as I’ll travel to Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa and Vancouver covering some of Canada’s biggest Pride festivities.  This project kicked off today with the commencement of the Pride granddaddy, here at home.   We covered the annual flag raising ceremony this afternoon, but also before that I sat down with Rae in his office in City Hall to discuss queer Toronto, and his role as the first openly gay council member.

'Is This My Chin?' 'No, Higher.' (Photo: Patrick Marano)

After, I had a chat with Mayor Miller, who had been on my former radio show several times, in fact the last time I think he was on we talked about our affair.

Now He Acts Like He Doesn't Even Know Me. (Photo: Donald Gray)

Perhaps Our New Mayor Will Treat Me Right?

Anyway, last year there wasn’t a flag raising due to city workers striking, so it seemed a little more poignant this year to be back, and poignant also following the intense spring our community has experienced.

This is my fourth or fifth time watching the flag being raised, and I have to tell you: Friggen gets me every time.  Lump in throat, tear in the eye. 

I love Pride.

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