A parade marcher greets the crowd during Toronto's Pride parade. (Ivy Cuervo/CBC)
Some Toronto District School Board trustees have issued a formal request asking whether or not public nudity laws will be enforced at this year's Pride parade.
Three trustees — Sam Sotiropoulos, Irene Atkinson and John Hastings — will put forward a motion at Wednesday's meeting that calls on the board chair to write to Mayor Rob Ford and city councillors, asking them clarify as to whether nudity laws will be upheld at Pride events.
Attended by thousands every year, the Pride parade often features participants in various states of undress.
The TDSB has run floats and a bus at the Pride parade, and participates in many Pride events.
The motion says nudity at Pride "raises legal concerns and implications" for "TDSB students and their families."
In email sent to other trustees, Sotiropoulos included a photo sent to him by "a member of the public" showing a fully naked Pride participant standing on Bloor Street between Church and Jarvis streets. In the background is a couple with a toddler in a stroller.
Some have criticized the trustees' motion as homophobic, a claim Sotiropoulos says is "nonsense."
"This is a municipal matter and it has to do with the policing and the enforcing of the laws of Canada in the streets of Toronto," he told CBC News. "If you were to do this in any other ward throughout the city at any other time of day during that same period, you'd likely be arrested."
What do you think of the proposed request to enforce nudity laws at Pride?
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