June is Pride Month in Ontario and while it is supposed to be a joyous celebration of someones sexuality, and freedom as a individual but there are been this anti-queer hate centred towards the queer community started by alt-right, white suppremacist groups that have come up from the United States. In the last year there are been a lot of hate towards members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Ontario. The hatered first started towards drag queens reading stories at publicly funded libraried in Ontario. Many of these haters called drag queens “groomers” or “indoctrination of the rainbow mafia” towards children. Many parents that took their children to story time with drag queens were happy to get their children out of the house, and get their children to interact with other children and other adults and to have fun. Parents also supported their local library, and drag queens are also gig workers, so having them read a story at a public library helped them buy groceries or pay a bill. I was at a counter protest in Ottawa in Feburary at one of their public libraries fending off so called Christians that where trying to harm the drag queen that was outside the library asking the protesters to leave the area in peace. In my little area of Ontario the local Catholoic school board held a board meeting to vote on rasing the Pride Flag for Pride Month. Students and teachers that were at that meeting were treaded as they were a disease and had hateful comments hurled at them. Some student trutess that the meeting felt unsafe, and were crying when the meeting was over. We are 10 days into Pride Month and that Catholic School Board has still not raised the Pride Flag, and are not backing down on their decision. There are two municipalities in Ontario that have decided not to raise the Pride Flag, and it was due to the fact that two municipalities have councillors that lean more towards the convervitived side with a alt-right leaning. What bothers me is that many Ontario towns are having the Pride events in June, the summers and into September, and many of these Pride evenets will be under attack by alt-right protesters, and will have little funding for police protection. I’m also fearful of Pride events turning violent, which I hope it is just my paranio kicking in.