Lorna Pardy, embarrasser of lesbians

A keen-eyed reader sent me more information about Lorna Pardy, the drunk heckler who is now suing a comedian in B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal for making un-funny jokes about her sexuality. That's her in the middle of the picture, while working as an extra on the set of the TV show The L Word. She's a lesbian thespian.

You'd think someone who is an aspiring actress would have a little bit more composure than Pardy exhibited; that perhaps she might have had a bon mot or two of her own in reply to comedian Guy Earle's admittedly foul rant. Instead, she ran straight to the government. How pitiful. How weak. How un-self-confident. Her attempt at looking cool and composed in the above picture must have mustered the totality of her acting ability. I prophesy she will never rise above an un-credited extra.

I'm pleased to see that at least one of Pardy's tribe gets it: on the website from which I took this picture, she is denounced thusly:

...shame on you for implicating all of us in this shameless dance with the insatiable beast of censorship. I still remember a time not that long ago when books deemed to have explicit gay and lesbian content were not allowed into Canada, and now, thanks to the foolish and shortsighted tantrum of one sadly insecure little lesbian hipster, we can all look forward to another walk down that dark path.

thank you for bringing this distinctly fascist distortion of liberal thought into our community.

And here is a more contemporaneous report on the subject, from the gay magazine Xtra West. Note this cowardly comment:

The couple refused to comment for this article, on advice from legal counsel. "I can't even give you my name [to be] printed," said one of the women, who would only confirm her first name as Lorna.

But look at this interesting tid-bit: Zesty's (the nightclub) has been home to a lesbian comedy show for years:

Accounts of the incident have been making the rounds on the internet, with some calling for a boycott of Zesty's, while others say any action should target the comedian, not the venue which has played long-time host to queer artists like the comedy troupe Laff Riot Girls.

"We're collateral damage," says Lee Ann Keple of the lesbian-run comedy troupe that has held its shows at Zesty's for the past seven years. Keple says she has always had a good relationship with Zesty's management, and does not support the call for a boycott.

No matter to Pardy and her angry friends. They're suing not just Earle, but the restaurant, too. Given that Earle lives in Toronto and, as a comedian, is likely penniless, but Zesty's is stuck in Vancouver and is obviously a going concern, who do you think will foot the bill here in the end?

Pardy is a disgrace. But that's not the problem. The problem is that the Gordon Campbell's government has given that disgrace a powerful legal weapon in the form of the BCHRT.

What a disgusting new chapter in the grostesque book of Stalinism being written by Canada's HRCs.

Fire. Them. All.