{"id":20453,"date":"2014-07-01T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=20453"},"modified":"2014-07-01T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:12:24","slug":"worldpride-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/07\/01\/worldpride-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldPride 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"Everyone knows that I love living in Toronto (and if you didn't, well, now you do!), but when asked specifically what I love about the city, I tend to get hit with a random case of amnesia. It's kind of like being asked what your favourite band is, and for some reason you can only think of Linkin Park<\/em>. Yeah -- that kind of feeling.\r\n\r\n
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Me being asked things. via: http:\/\/goo.gl\/1oKT4d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nThis last week, however, I definitely didn't have to think about why I love Toronto.\r\n\r\nTwo\u00a0words:\u00a0World<\/strong>Pride\u00a0<\/strong>2014<\/strong>\r\n\r\nToronto isn't just diverse -- we celebrate our diversity.<\/strong> Being in my area of study (Social-Cultural Anthropology, Book & Media Studies, Women & Gender Studies, and Wikipedia), and being a minority individual, I'm so glad that I have the privilege of being able to live here.\r\n\r\nAnd I'm ecstatic that mentality doesn't stop anywhere you go downtown -- especially at our university.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe very first thing I did, even before Pride Week officially started, was attend the U of T Pride Pub at Hart House with a few friends.\r\n\r\n
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Hart House makes a very nice party area. Who knew?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nIt was outrageous.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI mean, I'm not dumb (note: I can only attest to this by saying U of T accepted me) -- I know our student body is diverse, but experiencing the Pride Pub showed me that as a university, we truly do have strength in numbers!\r\n\r\nIt was a beautiful night filled with Britney Spears music, lip-synching drag queens, Steam Whistle, and a whole lot of new faces for me to embarrass myself in front of.\r\n\r\n
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This summarizes everything that happened that night. No shame, just love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSince the University of Toronto is a \"no judgement zone,\" I was able to simultaneously \"dance\" to C+C Music Factory's<\/em> \"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)\" at the Pride Pub, while\u00a0still having\u00a0the pleasure of being invited\u00a0to march as a part of the university group for the second year in a row!\r\n\r\n
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Me passing out from the heat at last year's Pride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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If you look up the word 'messy' in Webster's Dictionary, you will find this picture from Pride 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nAlthough it was literally boiling, having all my friends and peers around me while marching by thousands of equally happy spectators helped me not to have a heat stroke (this is scientifically proven). That, and we were\u00a0walking through a military war field -- if the war field was downtown Toronto, and the guns were water guns.\r\n\r\n
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You can't see me because I shape-shifted into a puddle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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It started raining for a few minutes, but then a double rainbow formed. The only thing that could've made this scene better is if Diana Ross' \"I'm Coming Out\" was playing at the same time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nI didn't know I could be more proud than I already am to go to the University of Toronto -- but I truly am. 50 metric pounds of glitter, and a community that doesn't just accepts you, but celebrates your differences with you. That is priceless.<\/strong> Unless you count the glitter; It was probably purchased at Costco<\/em>. So almost priceless.\r\n\r\nUofT, what did you do for WorldPride?<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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