Editorial: Prejudice shows Pride needed more than ever

It’s been 37 years since a handful of participants bravely marched in Edmonton’s first Pride Festival parade, originally a protest of police raids on gay bathhouses that has turned into a celebration of inclusion and acceptance for an historically persecuted minority group.
But unlike the weekend’s cheery parade on Whyte Avenue, the march of societal attitudes in those four decades when it comes to tolerance and understanding has been halting — two steps forward and one s