[URBAN NOTE] Pride after-notes

[rfmcdonald]

Pride in Toronto--one of the four largest Pride events in North America--still strikes me as a secular carnival for people of all orientations, and is not so much a community-bonding gathering as it might once have been. The relatively greater prevalence of merchants over community groups on closed-off Church Street and adjoining corridors is enough proof of that. Still, it's nice to be a marketing demographic, and the events were fun. Carole Pope's concert, one of the last Pride concert events on Sunday night, was a particular highlight for me, no matter that I caught only a few minutes of it.