Toronto police officer Luke Wilson (who gives the hot Castro cop a run for his money) would likely win us over with any hair color, but his decision to dye his hair neon pink is an inspiration.
Hey #Twitter if This gets a 1000 RT’s @pc8430 will keep the hair 4 a week #DayofPink #stopbullyingnow @TorontoPolice pic.twitter.com/2TGhGykfXe
— Ryan Willmer (@RyanCP23) April 8, 2015
He posted a picture of himself holding a sign that says #DayOfPink and #StopBullyingNow, along with a promise that for every 1,000 retweets, he’d keep the color in his hair for another week.
They dye-job marks International Day of Pink, a day of events to “raise awareness to stop homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny and all forms of bullying.” Luke decided to adopt the new do and see how far its social media wings could carry it.
Watson attended the Day of Pink rally at Forest Hills Collegiate Institute in Toronto Wednesday, along with other cops wearing pink t-shirts beneath their uniforms.
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Jimmy Gee
Gotta love Canada, Birches!
Gloria Anne
Aaaw that’s so cool.
1EqualityUSA
The last photo seems as though he’s over it. Perhaps it got bigger than he imagined and took off in a balloon-boy kind of way. I like the idea and he’s completely adorable, holding the sign. Sparks.
Xzamilio
Love it all. Maybe next time, leave the sides alone… all that pink on his heads needs to be broken up.
Xzamilio
*head
Brandyn Massin
That looks horrible. He should have gone more pastel. 😉
Shanestud
In the second photo that’s Toronto Chief of Police Bill Blair on Watson’s left. All schools in Toronto from kindergartens to high schools celebrate Day of Pink with special projects and discussions in classrooms about gay bullying, tolerance and diversity…..and not one Christian group protests that they don’t want their children exposed to the “gay agenda” (in a city of 4 million) and it’s nation wide event in every province!!
Tracy Pope
Xzamilio: Freudian slip?
I did retweet this when it was first posted on twitter. Amazing how a country so close to the US can be culturally so far advanced about LGBT issues compared to our own.
John Kuehnle
It’s bright, very cool he did that.
Jaime-Arturo Rodriguez Luevano
Jem truly outrageous!
Gary Franklyn Mosby
He fine!
Xzamilio
@Tracy Pope: No… me being lazy and not proofreading 🙂
Joseph Anthony AllenPalumbo
that is awesome thank you sir
Dave Whitman
Cameron Goldbeck stole your look but also he’s awesome
Roland Hamburger
Looks like my Sims 4 character
Milk
I’m skerd. I retweeted his pic and now he follow me. Is that a good thing?
fredo777
What a stud.
Desert Boy
I hope the curtains DON’T match the drapes! Hot guy. Great sentiment.
Manchester
I want to have his baby now.
jason smeds
A silly Canadian gimmick which props up stereotypes about male homosexuality.
ripzippysf
What makes him sexy is his security in his on sexuality and willingness to take a stand for others. Hate the pink hair but, love the message. Too bad we don’t see this in America. The US cops are too busy racially profiling and killing people of color.
Billy Budd
He is hot.
David Tillman
Shouldn’t he have been a bit more fashionable for coming out. I mean come on its not easter anymore
Shanestud
@jason smeds:
You missed the whole point..the pink is symbolic not a stereotype. The Day of Pink was started in Nova Scotia Canada by straight high school students who saw a gay student who was wearing a pink shirt being bullied. So next day all the students came to school wearing pink in solidarity with the gay student.
Canadians are doing something to educate students from kindergarten to high school that gay bashing and bullying are not cool. It’s not a “silly gimmick” and something you might consider in America for a better inclusive, tolerant society where kids are not bullied into committing suicide.
VampDC
Thats awesome!
Just wish pink girly and rainbows didn’t have to be associated with being gay.
jwtraveler
@1EqualityUSA: @Xzamilio: @Brandyn Massin: @jason smeds: This guy did something amusing and striking to help draw attention to a good pro-gay cause, and some of you decide that criticism and nit-picking are the most appropriate response. What losers!
Shanestud
@VampDC:
Don’t you know anything about gay history? In Nazi Germany gays were arrested and required to wear PINK triangles that identified them as homosexuals. Thousands of gay men wearing these pink triangles went to concentration camps where they died in gas chambers. The PINK triangle became a universal symbol of the oppression of gay people. VampDC: Pink is about the oppression and holocaust of gays….not necessarily the color of boas worn by drag queens
1EqualityUSA
jwtraveler, i wasn’t putting him down. He looked maxed in that last photo.
Xzamilio
@jwtraveler: Dude, hop off the cross. I wasn’t diminishing anything he did… go bitch about something else.
Avery Alvarez
As someone on Dlisted mentioned, a man is at his most attractive when he shows compassion and kindness to others, and is confident in himself so as to not be worried how pink hair would look to others.
TemptyK
Boy fine!
jwtraveler
@Xzamilio: Sorry. The most important thing to focus on in this story is the quality of the dye job. Why didn’t I realize that?
Clark35
That guy is not hot.
Iver Frank Becklund
He actually looks good with that color I would say. Almost like a punk look. He’s mighty handsome though, ey!?
Realitycheck
Nice man, I wish more policeman where like him.
MarcoRabbito
@David Tillman: …dude, you totally look like the gay Italian singer Tiziano Ferro!
Bureau Oude-Roze
Respect!
fonzymorris
FYI, the man to Luke’s left with the pink sweater under his uniform is the Chief of Police, Bill Blair. I feel very proud of my city right now — and I hope I bump into Officer Wilson in some dark alley soon;)
orcanyc
Thanks Luke for all the support, Your great!!!
gaypalmsprings
In Arizona, they would be mistaken for people sitting in jail with all that pink. Canada rocks! Luke is da man!
Xzamilio
@jwtraveler: Did I say the most important thing to focus on was his hair and the dye job? Did I say that anywhere? No… that would be YOU looking for a fight. Dude, go away…there is no issue here. You don’t like it, keep it moving
NJjoe
Attah Boy! He’s a cutie no matter what haircolor he has.
Deborah McCracken
Love it, of course!
No_No_No_Yes
Ha! He might want to look into a more permanent kind of pink..
balddude13
I will be going to Toronto just to get arrested by Officer Luke Wilson! Dang is he hot!!! But besides that I have to admire him for taking a stance against Gay bullying. Even though I am a gay person, I was never a fan of the color pink. I am now!!!
balddude13
@jason smeds
Good gravy man! Why do you have to read so deeply into a well intentioned and courageous gesture? Look at the message behind the pink hair. This is a result of an anti-gay bullying incident started by a high school student in Canada who had witnessed it. Believe it or not, there are straight people who support the LGBTQ community in Canada and in the U.S. What is a “homosexual stereotype” anyway? Let’s move beyond that.
Tracy Pope
@jwtraveler: Hey, Xzamilio said he loved it all; he didn’t say anything derogatory about the story. Nothing even remotely like it’s a silly Canadian gimmick or some other absolutely thoughtless remark like that.
cflekken
So…..did he make the carpet match the drapes? Just kidding. This was an awesome gesture on his part, and all of their parts.
Xzamilio
@Tracy Pope: Don’t even waste your time with that idiot… he’s ironically nitpicking like he claimed I was. Of course, if I were REALLY nitpicking, I’d point out that “nitpicking” is one word, and not hyphenated… but that’s none of my business
*sips tea*
Jeffrey C. Jones
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” – Leviticus 20:13
jantheman4903
since he didnt make EVERY single person on here happy with his decision, well…i think we have no choice but to destroy him. let him live,so he can know how he made that 3 percent slightly unhappy.but thats all. put him in a dank 30 foot well and throw him remnants from 3 week old crackerbarrel meals twice a year. thats good for the first two years.
balddude13
@jantheman4903
WTF???!!!
Saint Law
@jason smeds: As a lonely, women envying, porn surfing, men’s room frequenting knob hound you really aint in any position to castigate anyone for being a gay stereotype.
balddude13
@Saint Law
Bravo my brother!
Saint Law
To carry this off you either have to be a) very good looking or b)in possession of a certain aplomb.
He succeeds on both counts.
Xzamilio
@jantheman4903: What the hell are you talking about?
Xzamilio
@Jeffrey C. Jones: You put that on here so that you could assuage your guilt from beating off after two hour binge through the Queerty archives!!
Gurrrl… who you think you fooling???
Captain Obvious
Canada is making us look bad. We’re supposed to be so open and free… oh America.
Hot cop with pink hair to promote support of LGBTs in Canada while America has anti-gay pizza worth 840,000.
I think I might need to move to Canada. We’re too busy clicking on Change.org to make a difference.
jantheman4903
@balddude13: thats what we need to do now. destroy anyone who has a different opinion or action than ours. it used to be only republicans and entertainment tonite. it is clear from the comments of the men on here that…since his action did not satisfy everyone…he must be destroyed. why else would people stop and comment negatively on such a thing? am thinking the ending of braveheart? yea he deserves it. he made at least TWO people unhappy!!!
excusemydust
I think he looks just marvelous with the pink hair, and it’s a sweet gesture. Kudos to him.
balddude13
@jantheman4903
What in the hell are you talking about? You need to have a psychiatric evaluation do\
hex0
Hot guy but having pink hair should be illegal.
balddude13
done
jantheman4903
@balddude13: dont you know that is the new way of the net? if someone does something good..we also need to dissect it and if 2 people are unhappy..the person must be destroyed. we can’t just let someone do something good can we?
balddude13
@jantheman
Dude. You’re not even funny. You’re sick. Evil. All the cop did was dye his hair pink for a cause. Why don’t you go attack another website who deserves your twisted thoughts. You remind me of a gay basher.
jantheman4903
which one? and ever heard of sarcasm and jonathan swift?
balddude13
@jantheman
Then leave your fucked up sarcasm elsewhere, idiot! Do something of worth. Support the LGBTQ cause, if you are gay. If not then take a very long walk off a short pier. Leave your miserable rhetoric with the Indiana Christian bigot pizza owners, asshole!
balddude13
@jantheman
And stop showing how pretentiously intellectual you think you are. I have heard of sarcasm and Jonathan Swift idiot.
jantheman4903
@balddude13: @balddude13: have you ever been up in jonathan swift? only real way to know him.
balddude13
@jantheman
Vete para la chingada de su madre cabron!
jantheman4903
ahhh you are using google translator to write english…you are…mexican? (much harder to type slow than speak slow). explains so much about your lack of comprehension.
balddude13
@jantheman
Oh you amuse me! Actually I am probably more American than you’ll ever be! Born and raised here in the U.S.A. I am proficient in both English and Spanish which probably makes me far more intelligent than yourself. I am not Mexican but I know some gay Mexican gangbangers who would fuck you first then beat the shit out of you. I chose Mexican slang Spanish to express how I feel about your ignorance. Do us all a favor, represent yourself with dignity if you are LGBTQ. If not then stay away.
jantheman4903
so violent. something to prove by hanging around killers. trying to prove manhood still to father who left you? knowing two languages here..usually means you grew up trash. am not amused by you,saddened by your biological rage.
balddude13
@jantheman4903
You crack me up! Don’t you know sarcasm? I am a therapist who works with people in recovery. Some of them are ex cons. No sweetie, my daddy never left me. Grew up in a good Catholic home. No trash. No biological rage here. I wish you well my friend. Knowing two or more languages in this country is an advantage and has helped me in my career. What do you have to say for yourself?
jantheman4903
@balddude13: i know sarcasm used well. no rage? disputed from the response I elicited. I speak just enough Czech to get by, and am fluent in ASL. Masters in pathology,help administer bone marrow transfers. Help run 2 summer camps for kids with cancer, one CourageHopeLove. Sounds like your job is rewarding even if it leaves sarcasm development dormant. nite ,sweetie.
balddude13
@jantheman4903
Awesome. You serve the public well. We are wasting time trading mean spirited barbs with one another. Sarcasm has it’s place but it’s mostly passive aggressive and misplaced anger when used by people who don’t have the style and timing as say David Letterman. Let’s put our time and anger to better use such as fighting hate and ignorance towards the LGBTQ community not each other.
jantheman4903
but i DO have that skill and havent u seen me sub for dave? online i get worked up alot by people that have to find fault with the truly beautiful human gesture of mr pink…so my response is “yup lets just destroy him..” the swift method we mentioned. am glad u are working with ex-cons. very underfunded and underserved.
Robert
Got to give him the respect for this.