Air Canada angrily shut off its social media replies this week after massive backlash erupted over its outlandish Pride Month celebration.
The drama began on Monday when the Canadian airline posted a ridiculous tweet celebrating its “first all-2SLGBTQIA+ flight.”
Look:
Our first all-2SLGBTQIA+ flight was a heartfelt celebration reflecting our unwavering commitment to inclusivity and equality, in the air and on the ground. pic.twitter.com/OZ2Ic8ob5K
— Air Canada (@AirCanada) June 2, 2025
The video featured Air Canada employees ranging from pilots to engineers who identify as either two-spirit (2S), lesbian (L), gay (G), bisexual (B), transgender (T), queer (Q), intersex (I), asexual (A), or other… all sharing their thoughts on the “historic flight.”
Captain Maciej, one of the people in the video, said, “It was a bit of a range of emotions this morning coming here and getting dressed for this flight.”
“There’s something in there that represents me as well, so there’s a bit of joy having the opportunity to do this flight today,” he added.
First Officer Juan remarked that it’s a “really special moment.”
“It has to do with visibility, with the possibility of telling everyone that we truly feel welcome and accepted for who we are,” he continued.
The public, meanwhile, was not equally excited by the flight. If anything, many among the public were disgusted, disappointed, and disillusioned, with one critic noting that the flight was “inclusive” of everybody save for normal, everyday heterosexual people.
Inclusive to exclude heterosexual people? No, this is just woke bs.
— B Rodgers (@bnrgator) June 2, 2025
How is this a commitment to inclusivity & equality when straight people are excluded on purpose?
You’re ridiculous.
— Siobhan (@siobhan_oz) June 2, 2025
Other critics wondered what any of this had to do with ensuring a quality, safe flight for passengers.
“[P]lease explain how sexual preference affects plane flights,” one critic posted to X. “I would like to know why an airline is obsessed with something that has nothing to do with flying planes.”
“Enough of this ridiculous nonsense. What does someone’s sexual behavior have to do with operating an airline?” another critic added.
I don’t care. Take me safely to my destination. You know, that thing we pay you for?
— Nova (@theNova9586) June 2, 2025
This is absolutely ridiculous – all we need and care about is competent employees, regardless of what they’re doing in their bedrooms.
Get a grip.
— Michael (@justwannasayth2) June 2, 2025
Other critics asked why Canada Air was trying to import the radically gay identity politics of the United States.
“Stop bringing nonsense US identity politics to Canada,” one of them wrote. “Unless you are actually trying to create backlash against gay acceptance and gay marriage which you will get, in which case is that really a good corporate goal?”
The critic’s point was that this obsession with shoving LGBT stuff down people’s throats tends to alienate folks and make them far less friendly to the gay movement to begin with.
This can be observed in the way everyday people have consistently responded to the overrepresentation of gays in public and private messaging and programs.
Take, for instance, what happened at last year’s Olympics:
When Inclusion-ism becomes
Exclusion-ism. This is no longer the Olympics, this is the Woke-lympics.
3% of the worlds population identify as gay and were represented with 97% of the narrative. Looks and sounds a lot like Bigotry and mass grooming to me. ♂️ pic.twitter.com/aNEL4KEuDa— Laird of the Manor (@LairdOfTheManor) July 27, 2024
Gays have also been accused of being overrepresented on television.
Case in point:
LGBT people on TV are massively over represented.
Self identification in polling, even with all the expanded definitions of “LGBT,” is still only at 4.5%.
Whenever someone talks to you about “Muh under representation” they’re flagrantly just lying. pic.twitter.com/lrOOQcXthK
— SuperNerdLand || Oyaji Club (@SuperNerdLand) November 27, 2019
The last set of critics bashed Air Canada for focusing on blatant virtue-signaling versus providing good flights.
“Focus on flying your tiny seat, no leg room airplanes on time for a better price instead of this immoral virtue signaling,” one critic posted.
See more responses below:
yet another reason to never use @AirCanada besides their lousy service
— Doubting Thomas Philosophy (@doubting_tomasz) June 2, 2025
We don’t care about the crew’s sexual proclivities. It’s nobody’s business. Stop shoving it in our faces. We just want to get to our destination safely.
— Kralik (@earlkralik) June 2, 2025
I genuinely couldn’t give a flying f**k about anyone on board sexuality or identity. Just do your job, get me to my destination safely and f**k off with the virtue signalling bollocks.
— Heather (@heatherthefair) June 2, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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