Breakfast opens Capital Pride

August 24, 2010 · Filed Under Festivals in the News, News

Sneh Duggal, The Ottawa Citizen

The third annual fundraising breakfast, the kickoff to Capital Pride Week, was held by the Ottawa police and its GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered) liaison committee.

The event aims to raise money for three area GLBT groups, but two of the groups chosen this year — Bruce House and Ten Oaks Project — stated they would not accept the funds in protest over how officers recently publicly identified an HIV-positive man charged with aggravated sexual assault in May. Police said he did not disclose his HIV status to another man, who contracted the disease.

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