- Jennifer Breakspear, Executive Director of Qmunity, which hosts Vancouver's Pride House
Dave D'Alessandro writes:
(VANCOUVER, British Columbia) So about five of us were lounging around the TV at a gay hangout called Pride House on the west end Friday, when the mayor suddenly walks in.
No, that’s not the start of a cheeky joke, it’s actually a summary of how we spent our day.
Vancouver Mayor, Gregor Robertson was there because that’s what you do when you’re a progressive politician who made his money selling organic juice and still rides his bike to work when weather permits: You embrace whatever constituency will hug you back.
It would seem like he’s got enough to do with a city of two million people and the Winter Olympics in his front yard, but he seems like a guy who can multitask.
Oh, they also told us just 12 hours earlier, in this very same club, Stephen Colbert showed up. He took a look at a poster in the hallway advertising the “International Day Against Homophobia,” which depicts two male hockey players kissing, with a caption that reads, “Shocking? For Who?”
Colbert, we’re told, exploded in mock outrage: “This is an Atrocity! Disgusting! Deplorable!” he boomed. “How dare you put this on your wall! It’s missing an ‘M’ — it should read ‘For Whom?’” READ MORE
Stephen Colbert at Pride House Vancouver
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