We Have Always Been Here: Pelau MasQUEERade Disturbing Toronto Pride History.

This article addresses the uneasy tensions and overlaps between race, sexuality, and citizenship, by focusing on the moments when queer diasporic people of colour slip "in" and "out" of Pride Toronto-the organization that hosts the annual Toronto lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Pride...

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Published in:Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 54; no. 2-3; pp. 360 - 395
Main Author: LORD, R. CASSANDRA
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Published: University of Toronto Press Spring-Fall 2020
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        This article addresses the uneasy tensions and overlaps between race, sexuality, and citizenship, by focusing on the moments when queer diasporic people of colour slip "in" and "out" of Pride Toronto-the organization that hosts the annual Toronto lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Pride Parade. Drawing on Pride Toronto's thirtieth anniversary promotional material, released in 2010, and the organization's 2002 five-year strategic direction plan, the author applies a queer feminist diaspora reading practice to problematize how the documents, taken together, presents Pride's queer history in Canada, which continues to be narrated by the organization in ways that de-racialize queer subjects and invoke white gays and lesbians as central to its story. Pelau MasQUEERade, a Caribbean queer diasporic group that participates in the Pride Parade, reveals how the histories of queer diasporic people of colour are strategically appropriated and belatedly visible only in sporadic moments in the documents. Pelau MasQUEERade's presence works to disturb normative accounts of Pride, while simultaneously opening the door to overlapping histories of queer diasporic people in the event. The group reworks Pride Toronto's de-racialized narrative of sexuality by gesturing to the ways in which race, sexuality, and notions of citizenship operate in multiple and contradictory ways.
        Cet article porte sur les tensions difficiles et les chevauchements entre la race, la sexualité et la citoyenneté. Il met l'accent sur les moments où les personnes de couleur diasporiques queers «entrent » et «sortent » de Pride Toronto - l'organisation qui anime, pour les personnes lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles, transgendres et queers, le défilé annuel torontois de la fierté gaie. À l'aide du matériel promotionnel du 30e anniversaire de la fierté gaie de Toronto, publié en 2010, et du plan stratégique de cinq ans de l'organisation, publié en 2002, l'auteur applique une lecture de la diaspora féministe queer pour examiner comment tous ces documents présentent l'histoire queer de Pride au Canada, laquelle continue d'être narrée par l'organisation d'une manière qui déracialise les sujets queers et invoque les homosexuels et lesbiennes blancs comme étant essentiels à son histoire. L'auteur présente Pelau MasQUEERade, un groupe queer des Caraïbes qui participe à la parade de la Fierté gaie, pour dévoiler comment les histoires des personnes de couleur diasporiques queers sont appropriées de façon stratégique et visible tardivement seulement sporadiquement dans les documents. La présence de Pelau MasQUEERade cherche à déranger les récits normatifs de Pride, tout en ouvrant la porte aux histoires chevauchantes des personnes diasporiques queers à l'événement. Le groupe retravaille le récit déracialisé de la sexualité de Pride Toronto en montrant les manières dont la race, la sexualité et les concepts de citoyenneté opèrent de manières multiples et contradictoires.
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