Canada unveils 30-foot-tall ‘2SLGBTQI+ monument’
Ottawa’s new ‘Thunderhead’ monument was unveiled with drag queens and a ‘boa cutting’ as former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended alongside prominent pro-LGBT activists.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — On August 21, dignitaries gathered near the intersection of Wellington Street and Portage Bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, to unveil Thunderhead, billed as Canada’s “first national 2SLGBTQI+ monument.” In attendance were former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Louise Arbour, and LGBT activists such as former MP Svend Robinson.
The monument is a 30-foot white concrete column with cloud-shaped openings; the interior is lined with thousands of mirrored tiles for a “disco ball” effect. The surrounding park includes an “interpretive wall” that details the history of LGBT activism in Canada, with a focus on the LGBT “purge” it was built to commemorate, in which the government investigated and dismissed LGBT-identifying people from federal jobs.
Or, as Todd Ross of the LGBT Purge Fund put it: “It’s inverted clouds that are inside of this pillar. And then really to gay it up, we lined it with mirrored tiles so it feels like you’re inside of a giant disco ball.” The taxpayer money for the monument came from a 2018 class action suit launched against the government by a group of those who had been dismissed from their jobs; they hope the new pro-LGBT park in the heart of the capital will be a place of “protest.”
