As Montréal Celebrates Pride, LGBTQ Groups See Rise in Hateful Messages 🏳️‍🌈

As Montréal kicks off its 2019 Pride festival with music, performance art, and much celebration, the organization that built it all — Fierté Montréal — has expressed concern about the rising tide of online hate. Jean-Sébastien Boudreault, the group’s vice-president, told Radio-Canada (the francophone wing of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) that Fierté Montréal has received more than 1,000 homophobic and hate-filled comments.

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Source: As Montréal Celebrates Pride, LGBTQ Groups See Rise in Hateful Messages Online

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