Our Right to Love

This weekend brings to a close Pride Week in the major North American cities. It is both a celebration of rights attained, and a political event of rights denied for the 2SLGBTQI+ communities. Regardless of how you may personally identify for both gender and orientation, Pride can serve to help us take a look at the repression of sexuality and gender expression by our societies. The male and female stereotypes with their associated character traits become moulds which people try to fit themselves into, even when they just don’t fit. The repression of such basic human elements as gender identification and who we are allowed to love leads to untold suffering, mental anguish and can lead to mental disorders. Whether you are hetero-normative, gay, cis-binary, non-binary or just confused, we want to encourage everyone to follow their own heart in a healthy and self-affirming way. We want Pride to remind everyone that who we are at our most fundamental core, deserves to be expressed and celebrated and those who would even consider taking those rights away from anyone or forcing people into repression should be charged with crimes against humanity. Humanity is social, seeks to connect with others and themselves, and sexual expression is a profound way humans achieve such connections, consensually. Join Gord and Alexia Live on Thursday at 8 pm ET in a celebratory and possibly political discussion on why Pride is still important and very relevant.