Montreal-Today, we swallowed down pink and black pills. Sadly, the dark overtook the pink, at the edge of the gay pride parade. Our lights burnt out in a moment of protest, but also in a moment of questioning. If we fell one by one in the middle of the party, it is in the memory of all the forgotten or hidden realities in this big gay nation: why do we avoid talking about conjugal violence in same sex couples? Suicide among queer youth? The under-representation of women and people of color in the so-called rainbow community? Homophobia that is still very present among youth? How pink capitalism is becoming more and more rabid and enrooted as the dominant model? Immaculate white male professionals, representing the patriarchal figure incarnate? etc. Does all of this make you dance?

Montreal- Today, we swallowed down pink and black pills. Sadly, the dark overtook the pink, at the edge of the gay pride parade. Our lights burnt out in a moment of protest, but also in a moment of questioning. If we fell one by one in the middle of the party, it is in the memory of all the forgotten or hidden realities in this big gay nation: why do we avoid talking about conjugal violence in same sex couples? Suicide among queer youth? The under-representation of women and people of color in the so-called rainbow community? Homophobia that is still very present among youth? How pink capitalism is becoming more and more rabid and enrooted as the dominant model? Immaculate white male professionals, representing the patriarchal figure incarnate? etc. Does all of this make you dance?

Emotion was on the lips of those dying in agony, still capable of mumbling a few words. “I have had a hard time in my life dealing with the intolerance of others towards my homosexuality, but nothing was worse than intolerance of the gay community of my physical “defects