Posted on 06/19/2007 4:10:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, Ontario, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Toronto's tourism board has launched a new campaign to attract big-spending homosexual American tourists. The catch-phrase of the newest effort to paint Toronto as the place to go for homosexuals is: "Toronto: As gay as it gets."
According to Tourism Toronto, which has been working with Gay Marketing Advisory Group to develop the new initiative, the intention is to show that Toronto is more than simply accepting of, or friendly towards homosexuals.
Homosexual activist Councillor Kyle Rae, who is playing a central role to the new strategy, said, "The tag line 'Toronto: As gay as it gets' comes out of people talking about their cities as being gay-friendly. Toronto's not gay-friendly -- it's gay," Rae said.
"This is where the fight for the equality of rights started."
"There's an awful lot of research to back up that gay and lesbian travellers are lucrative to any destination that has the benefit of receiving visitation - staying longer, travelling often, spending more," said Tourism Toronto president and CEO David Whitaker, according to the Globe and Mail.
The billboard and print ad campaign will target some of the United States' most liberal cities, including San Francisco, Los Angles, New York and Chicago.
Toronto Tourism already has an entire section of its website dedicated to homosexual tourism, highlighting some of the homosexual friendly attractions, including Toronto Islands' Hanlon Point's "clothing-optional" beach.
The announcement of the new advertising effort comes as thousands of homosexual men and women and pro-homosexual activists converge on Toronto for the annual Gay Pride week. In the past Toronto's massive parade has been condemned by pro-family advocates for its widespread violation of public decency laws, with numerous instances of full, public nudity and other lewd acts.
This is for real.
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The Support Our Troops ribbon on Toronto Fire vehicles, which were paid for by firefighters, are to be removed in September. by order of Toronto City Council.
Good, let ‘em go there and keep away from Disney World!
Disgusting!
Bluejays suck! ;-o
I know.
:-(
Oh, Canada.
Well, I already made plans to go to Toronto for the weekend. What can I do that no queers can ever do?
Oh, I know. Visit my grandkids.
Get ready, someday they might try to impose a tax on non-homosexual visitors.
Or one of them pervs might just grab one of the kids, or worse the spouse, and drag them off to their cave of perversion.
You are aware I trust that just having a homo look at you with their gay eye can turn you to the dark side. Next thing you know you aren't just lusting after someone of the same sex as you, but lusting for wild goats too.
Nope, I ain't goin' nowhere where there might be people different than me, I don't wanna be changed by their proximity, or smell, or evil eye, noway, nohow.
I'll say I'm a female homo, and my partner is a male lesbian.
LOL!
Wtf are you talking about?
Huh?
That civic pride thing is so heart warming … gets me every time. LOL!
I think in trying to be clever you came off sounding foolish.
Didn't seem gay when I was there. But it's been a few years and.. well.. they know themselves better than I. So I'm not going back.
You could spend weeks enjoying the sights and sounds of a new city and a different culture without ever coming into contact with anything which would change your life or your world view.
Get a grip.
Now is all of Canada “As Gay as it Gets?” Or just Toronto?
: P
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