Canada is building the world’s first “national 2SLGBTQI+ monument,” and the proposed design blurs the line between reality and parody.
construction Began Activists, politicians and “Indigenous elders” attended a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the structure in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday, CBC reported.
The project will cost $13 million (CAD). LGBT Purge Funda non-profit organization that received approximately 24 million won from the Canadian government in a discrimination class action lawsuit.
According to many social media users, despite the huge cost, it did not come close to the design shared by Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan Jr.
“Canada will be home to the world’s first 2SLGBTQI+ national monument,” O’Regan wrote on X, along with a photo of a cylinder with a gaping hole.
“No, I’m not going back,” the lawmaker added.
Canada will have the world’s first national 2SLGBTQI+ monument.
No, I won’t go back. pic.twitter.com/c2GhAmIAHe
— Seamus O’Regan Jr. (@SeamusORegan) May 2, 2024
“The monument’s design centers on a sculpture shaped like a thundercloud and is intended to ’embody the strength, activism and hope’ of the 2SLGBTQ+ community,” the newspaper said.
The structure received a lot of backlash for its confusing design, with Eva Krylova, a writer from Calgary, Alberta, commenting, “You’re making people hate us.”
you are making people hate us
— Eva Kurilova (@eva_kurilova) May 3, 2024
“And that’s what makes us the laughing stock of the world. Why do we need monuments to celebrate sexuality? There’s a reason you guys are pushing this. I don’t want it to be used for frivolous funds,” wrote another concerned X user named Michelle.
And that makes us the laughing stock of the world. Why do we need monuments to celebrate sexuality? There’s a reason you’re pushing this… I don’t want to spend my tax money on such nonsense.
— Michelle LA (@MichelleLA1981) May 3, 2024
“Virtue signaling aside, what could be uglier than this? I thought gay people were supposed to have good aesthetics,” said Amazing Zoltan, a content creator from British Columbia. added.
Virtue signaling aside, what could be uglier than this? Did you think gay people have a good aesthetic sense?
— Amazing Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) May 3, 2024
This design was so unpopular that Features About “Not the Bee” because it has an almost satirical quality.
