Every community has its truly committed.) (Naked people do turn up at the event frequently, though their presence isn’t as pervasive as some might think one sees a penis at the parade as much as one sees a tourist with a full head of braids at an all-inclusive resort or a crowd-surfer at a rock concert. It’s well-known that Toronto authorities turn a blind eye to bare bums and breasts in the public arena during Pride. No one was especially surprised when Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug announced last month that they would skip the city’s first “world” gay Pride parade this summer, a celebration defined in their words by “buck-naked men running down the street.” (Even less surprising, as journalist Andrea Houston pointed out in Toronto Life, was the Fords’ convenient silence on the topic of buck-naked women at the event.) But many in this city were genuinely caught off-guard last week when three school trustees from the Toronto District School Board-an institution that has a float in the parade-requested that police enforce the city’s public nudity laws at Pride in June.