St. Albert 2SLGBTQ+ advocates respond to potential pride crosswalk ban in Westlock – St Albert Gazette

by ahnationtalk on December 4, 202371 Views

Dec. 4, 2023

Advocates question whether a ban would be legally defensible and suggest it will harm youth in the area.

A move by some Town of Westlock residents to ban rainbow-coloured pride crosswalks has St. Albert 2SLGBTQ+ advocates concerned for the wellbeing of minority youth and questioning whether a ban is legally defensible.

St. Albert’s Kristopher Wells, MacEwan professor and research chair for the public understanding of sexual and gender minority youth, said that the proposal is “clearly discriminatory.”

“In the unlikely event that it does pass, it could face a human rights complaint on the grounds of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression,” Wells said. “We just have to look in the past when municipalities refused to acknowledge pride or raise the pride flag, and they had to be taken to court to do so. This is just history repeating itself.”

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