Photos of Pride capture a dazzling community, and a deeper message that being out is essential

Michael Rowe is a Toronto-based novelist and essayist. Angel John Guerra is a Toronto-based writer, visual artist and designer. They are the author and photographer ofWe are among the most photographed subculture communities of the second half of the 20th century and beyond.

The theatrical aspect of Pride notwithstanding, it’s all there, in one form or another: the panoply of ages, the rainbow of genders and gender expressions, the lifelong friends, the beloved straight allies, the queer families with their kids, the veterans of decades of Prides, the first timers who run the gamut from the shy ones taking their first tentative steps into the light of community and the ones who are joyfully hurtling toward their new queer lives like meteors entering a dazzling new...

Much has been written about the infamous “Cherry Beach Express,” the colloquial name for a horrific late-night ordeal, dating from roughly the 1950s to the early 1990s, endured by some Toronto gay men and lesbians, as well as others deemed socially undesirable by the authorities. I came out to stories like the Cherry Beach Express, as well as stories of police raids on the bathhouses we frequented in those days, and the stories of gay men’s lives destroyed by the concomitant fallout of exposure and public shaming.

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