It likely won't be the best received, but I wasn't a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.
The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it's part of living in the nations capital.
The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I'm uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn't exist over there. There's a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I'm sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn't sit well to me.
This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn't want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn't sit well.
Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It's really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.
