Town rejects Pride resolution because there’s no “Straight Pride.” So they got ambushed.

Revellers at Emo Pride this weekend
Photo: Facebook/Borderlands Pride

A small town’s government refused to recognize Pride Month, saying that it would be unfair because there’s no “Straight Pride.”

But LGBTQ activists – armed with rainbow flags, feather boas, and balloons – put together an “ambush” Pride parade for the town this past Saturday.

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This past May, the town council in Emo, Ontario – population 1,333, near Canada’s border with Minnesota – voted against a resolution recognizing June as Pride Month in a 2-3 vote.

Two of the town councilors and Mayor Harold McQuaker voted against the resolution. The mayor said that it would be unfair because there’s no “Straight Pride.”

“We have one flagpole and there’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin,” he said at the town council meeting discussing the resolution. “There’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”

That’s when Borderland Pride (an organization behind several Pride celebrations in towns near the Minnesota-Ontario border) co-chair Douglas Judson started to put together a plan, working with residents and businesses in the area to plan an “ambush event.”

Over the weekend, a 70-vehicle parade convoy carrying hundreds of supporters showed up in Emo….

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