It’s past time for the gay community to wake up to the widespread, insidious politicking and ideological capture that has infiltrated the once-proud movement that sought to liberate same-sex attracted people and welcome them with open arms into broader society. I’m talking, of course, about Toronto Pride, the local manifestation of an annual commemoration of the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969, which was first instituted in the Big Apple in 1970 and spread across the border in 1981.