When a guy in a green “straight pride” shirt was photographed with a Stampede-going Premier Danielle Smith, Albertans saw in it whatever they wanted to see.
Detractors of Smith and the grinning dude’s shirt found the message disparagingly dismissive of the struggles that have necessitated the LGBTQ movement, and saw a premier potentially dog-whistling her support of that dismissiveness.
Supporters — of the shirt’s message, at least — found nothing wrong with the shirt, or of being proud of heterosexuality. Then, they howled upon seeing a premier they generally backed state she supports the LGBTQ community, hadn’t read the guy’s shirt and
