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At Pride Toronto's Annual General Meeting Tuesday night, members voted in support of demands from Black Lives Matter Toronto, including the removal of police floats from future parades.
"It was exciting to see so many hands go up, when you've been silenced for the last twenty years," said Black Lives Matter Toronto's Ravyn Wngz after the vote, which was added to the meeting's agenda unexpectedly.
Tuesday's meeting also put to bed the possibility of a formal dispute resolution process between Pride Toronto and Black Lives Matter Toronto — a solution which was put forward in late August.
At Toronto's Pride parade in July, members of the Black Lives Matter Toronto group briefly halted the parade with a sit-in, which ended when Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed a document agreeing to a list of demands. Chantelois has since stepped down.
Current Pride Toronto co-chair Aaron GlynWilliams said that Tuesday's vote reflects the direction already being taken by Pride leadership.
"What happened tonight was a vote that simply reaffirmed the commitment and the path that the organization was on," he said.
As for what 2017's Pride parade will actually look like, GlynWilliams, whose three-year stint with Pride Toronto will end shortly, said it would be up to the incoming board to provide specifics, but that substantial progress has been made since the summer.
"There's never been a year without pressure. In every AGM, we've had vocal, passionate, dedicated members of our community make strong statements and requests for pride to be better," he said.
At Pride Toronto's Annual General Meeting Tuesday night, members voted in support of demands from Black Lives Matter Toronto, including the removal of police floats from future parades.
"It was exciting to see so many hands go up, when you've been silenced for the last twenty years," said Black Lives Matter Toronto's Ravyn Wngz after the vote, which was added to the meeting's agenda unexpectedly.
Tuesday's meeting also put to bed the possibility of a formal dispute resolution process between Pride Toronto and Black Lives Matter Toronto — a solution which was put forward in late August.
At Toronto's Pride parade in July, members of the Black Lives Matter Toronto group briefly halted the parade with a sit-in, which ended when Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois signed a document agreeing to a list of demands. Chantelois has since stepped down.
Current Pride Toronto co-chair Aaron GlynWilliams said that Tuesday's vote reflects the direction already being taken by Pride leadership.
"What happened tonight was a vote that simply reaffirmed the commitment and the path that the organization was on," he said.
As for what 2017's Pride parade will actually look like, GlynWilliams, whose three-year stint with Pride Toronto will end shortly, said it would be up to the incoming board to provide specifics, but that substantial progress has been made since the summer.
"There's never been a year without pressure. In every AGM, we've had vocal, passionate, dedicated members of our community make strong statements and requests for pride to be better," he said.
