'After hearing that message, I just felt so judged, and I felt like my family was literally going to hell,' she said. It was in 1987, while she was a 12-year-old student at that same school, that Morrison was introduced to the idea that homosexuality was a sin. John with her sons, who currently attend the school, there's also a more painful history to look back on. 5 6 7 LGBT pride (also known as gay pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group. 'Everybody should be accepted for who they are.'īut as she stands in front of St. First displayed at 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. 'He would think it should be this way,' said Morrison in an interview with CBC Radio's Ismaila Alfa. Tuesday's flag raising - part of the Toronto Catholic board's first-ever recognition of Pride month - will bring a feeling of celebration, of things being set right. 'He didn't hide,' his daughter told CBC Toronto. George Morrison, a well-known Toronto hairstylist who died late last this year, was openly gay, and had lived with his partner David for the last two decades of his life. John Catholic School in Toronto's east end on Tuesday, she'll be thinking about her father. As Eloise Morrison prepares to raise the Pride flag at St.
