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In Toronto, gay Scouts are thriving.(The Providence Journal)
TORONTO _ It was one country over, but a world of difference. A young man put on the crisp khaki shirt with the maple-leaf insignia and tiny Scouts Canada patch that proclaims he is a Scout.
The rainbow-colored neckerchief made another statement: that he is gay.
Bonte Minnema and the rest of Troop 129 then headed out into the misty night for their community service project: to team up with the AIDS Committee of Toronto to hand out condoms and safe-sex pamphlets in response to reports that HIV infection rates are creeping back up.
"Gives new meaning to the Boy Scout motto `be prepared,' " joked Minnema, 25.
A Scout since childhood, Minnema led the charge down the block in the heart of the city's gay and lesbian neighborhood, his winter coat unbuttoned so he could flash his scout uniform as he declared, "Happy Valentines Day from scouts in uniform!"
"I just love saying that," he said, as the scouts took their message into coffeehouses, a Baskin-Robbins, and Woody's, a bar illuminated by heart shaped lights and the the star power of Enza Supermodel, a drag queen who ran for mayor in Toronto's last election.
While the Boy Scouts of America hold tightly to an anti-gay policy, narrowly upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer, only hours away, Scouts Canada navigates with a different compass. As with scouts in the United Kingdom, where the scouting movement began nearly a century ago, Scouts Canada formally rejects discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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