TY - JOUR AU - Tompkins, Andrew PY - 2020/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - “Driving wedges” and “hijacking” Pride: Disrupting narratives of black inclusion in LGBT politics and the Canadian national imaginary JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 10 IS - 6 SE - Thematic Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1061 SP - 1214-1241 AB - This paper analyzes public debate pertaining to a demonstration by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLMTO) at the city&rsquo;s 2016 Pride parade. The movement&rsquo;s actions, and ultimately the organization itself, have been widely condemned for disrupting the event and calling attention to anti-Black racism within the Toronto Police Service and queer spaces. A critical discourse analysis of mainstream media content reveals the emergence of three major themes repeated across Canadian news outlets in the denouncement of BLMTO. Central to this process is the myth of multiculturalism, which effectively displaces the phenomenon of racism onto previous centuries and other countries. By scrutinizing the parameters of the Canadian national imaginary, this paper reveals the ways in which anti-Black racism has become compounded by the mainstream LGBT movement.<br /><br /> Este art&iacute;culo analiza el debate p&uacute;blico acerca de una manifestaci&oacute;n de la agrupaci&oacute;n de Toronto de Black Lives Matter (BLMTO) en el desfile del Orgullo de 2016. Las acciones de BLMTO y, en &uacute;ltima instancia, la propia organizaci&oacute;n, han recibido fuertes cr&iacute;ticas por interrumpir la celebraci&oacute;n y por llamar la atenci&oacute;n al racismo contra los negros por parte del cuerpo de polic&iacute;a de Toronto y los espacios queer. Un an&aacute;lisis cr&iacute;tico del discurso de contenidos de medios de gran difusi&oacute;n revela la emergencia de tres grandes temas que se repiten en los medios canadienses en la denuncia a BLMTO. Un eje central de este proceso es el mito del multiculturalismo, que desplaza el fen&oacute;meno del racismo a siglos precedentes y a otros pa&iacute;ses. Al escrutar los par&aacute;metros del imaginario nacional canadiense, este art&iacute;culo revela las formas en que el racismo contra los negros se ha agravado por el movimiento mayoritario LGBT. <br /><br /> <strong>Available from:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1104" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1104</a> ER -