Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Tonight was the kick off for Pride Week Toronto 2009. The Toronto Star has a special section for Pride. This year's theme is; Can't Stop, Won't Stop.

Happy Pride everyone! 

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It has been 40 years since Canada decriminalized homosexuality, setting the stage for the rights and freedoms we enjoy today. But the battle continues

It was the spring of 1969 and Pierre Elliott Trudeau's landmark bill – which the then justice minister defended with the famous declaration, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation" – was a hot topic in the national news.

The passage of Canada's Criminal Law Amendment Act – which, among other things, decriminalized homosexuality – loomed much larger than the New York Stonewall riots, which happened in September of that same year, recalls long-time Toronto activist Tim McCaskell  Read the rest of the story The Star.com