The Far Right Is Already Attacking the Club Q Hero

[Jilly_in_VA]

Richard Fierro, the Army veteran who tackled and disarmed the shooter inside LGBTQ Club Q in Colorado Springs, is currently receiving a torrent of hate and harassment from far-right extremists.

The far-right has is calling Fierro a “groomer” and a “f*ggot,” while questioning his sexuality for being at the Club Q drag show. Others even questioned the veracity of his entire story, according to an investigation conducted by VICE News and researchers at Advance Democracy Inc, a nonprofit that tracks online extremism.

Far-right troll Jack Pososbiec was one of the first people to do this. “Are we just not supposed to talk about the US Army Major taking his family down to the local drag club for a night out?” Pososbiec asked followers on multiple platforms Tuesday morning, including on Truth Social where he has 960,000 followers and on Telegram, where he has over a million.

“Heroes don't take their kids to drag shows,” one of Posobiec’s followers wrote on Telegram in response.

Others joined in: “So a married man, His Wife, Daughter and her boyfriend all go to Gay bar together? I’m gonna call bullshit on this,” a user on far-right Christian platform Gab wrote on Tuesday.

“If it’s not bullshit he’s helping to molest children and he’s all for it,” another Gab user wrote in response, adding: “F*ggot dad in closet.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93avba/colorado-shooting-club-q-richard-fierro

Jack Posobiec should be folded five ways...and I'll let you imagine the rest.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Jackie-Boy Should Say That To Fierro's Face

But, I'd bet a grand he wouldn't.

[LuckyCharms]

15. Just read this OP, and was going to type almost this exact response. n/t

[Caliman73]

17. I'll see your grand and raise you my house, that the coward wouldn't say it to Fierro's face.

He would be, as the OP said, "Folded up five ways.."

[soldierant]

26. Only if he had about twenty

Proud Bois or Oath Keepers or Wagner Group with him.

[underpants]

2. I saw that tweet by him

I just kept scrolling.

Fierro seems like a really cool guy. He saved a lot of lives. A lot.

[Dorian Gray]

29. Absolutely

Fierro has the bravery that someone like Posobiec can only dream of having.

They hate him bc they ain't him.

[Ziggysmom]

3. As my dear ol' dad would say, Pososbiec couldn't be a pimple on Richard Fierro's ass!

I respect the Vet!

[judesedit]

19. Go Dad

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. I knew this would happen.

Drag shows have been around for a long long time it's basically old school burlesque. Those right wing bastards never quit.

[soldierant]

27. A long time indeed.

I don't believe it has been documented prior to the fifth century BCE ... but at least in Europe all actirs were male until the latter part of the 17th century CE. And certainly the opera repertoire has a good deal of drag, both comic and serious.

[Dorian Gray]

30. So many bachelorette parties

go to drag clubs, and they have since the 80s. I grew up with right wingers who happily went to these things and wouldn't have blinked about this.

That's why this whole new fever against it is ridiculous.

[sop]

5. If he keeps this up Posobiec could end up owing million$, like Alex Jones.

[NickB79]

6. My college friends and I all went to see a drag show

All straight as arrows, some brought girlfriends.

It's entertainment. And if his daughter was old enough to have a boyfriend, she's old enough to go to a drag show. Hell, she has a BOYFRIEND. What did he do, groom her straight by mistake?

Christ, RuPaul has entire TV series dedicated to drag. You don't think straight people watch that either?

[Bengus81]

7. Remember though...the Goopers are the party that REALLY supports our Troops. Yeah right they do....

[IcyPeas]

8. these people are truly twisted

Richard Fierro = bad

Kyle Rittenhouse = good

[lame54]

11. To be fair Fierro didn't defend an empty parking lot

[Aristus]

9. I'm a Gulf War veteran, and I attended a lot of drag shows at The Connection in Louisville

Kentucky.

I'm a straight, cisgender male, and I loved every minute of it. The right-wing ghouls and armchair warriors can bite me.

[Dorian Gray]

31. hero

[Aristus]

32. I'll never forget how sweet and kind everyone was to me.

I was introduced to Louisville's gay community through my enthusiasm for 'Rocky Horror', which played weekends at the now-defunct Vogue Theater in the St. Mathews district.

I was kind of a misfit in the Army. Even though I was a tanker, I was kind of the opposite of the tanker personality; I was shy, awkward, quiet, liberal, and liked Shakespeare and classical music. Didn't hang around a lot with the other tank crewmen, who didn't know what to make of me.

The friends I made in St. Mathews really made me feel accepted and liked. I started spending all my weekends in Louisville, and hitting The Connection for some entertainment. Not everyone in the gang could go every weekend. But it usually worked out. One of my friends there was a lesbian. Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. We used to sit together so the straight guys not in our group would leave her alone, and the gay guys would leave me alone.

The drag troupe was called Le Boy La Femme, and they put on the most amazing shows. Absolutely entrancing. I was having the time of my life while all the other guys in my Army unit were getting drunk in the barracks and watching pornos.

I should write a book...

[spanone]

10. The most disgusting, fucking people on earth.

bar none.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. These conservatives live such sheltered lives.

Such fragile souls.

[moonshinegnomie]

13. id love to see fierro sue posobiec for slander

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. My hairdresser

used to do makeup and hair for drag shows at a place in Knoxville. He took my daughter and her friend to the club once and they had a blast. My daughter ran into a high school friend there and was delighted to see her. Oh, and they loved the show.

[kimbutgar]

16. Did you expect anything less from these evil cretins who have no conscience or love in their hearts?

[Septua]

18. Nope...

If Jesus Christ came back today and tried to do what he did the first time, the radical right would try to crucify him again.

[kimbutgar]

20. Exactly !

[Rebl2]

23. Yep

[Demovictory9]

21. Wow..ugly

[Septua]

22. Being a decent human being is simple to do

Read the Ten Commandments and act accordingly.

[paleotn]

24. Did anyone think the haters and scum were just going to disappear?

I'm not surprised in the least. There's no end to the depravity of reichwing garbage humans.

[Caliman73]

25. When your own concept of masculinity is so fragile that you are threatened by Drag...

It is only that fear that creates the hatred in these clowns. Where I live, there were very few clubs where you could go to dance, except two gay friendly clubs and one or two other venues, so I went to those clubs with friends, and I got hit on by gay men. Instead of being insulted and disgusted, I was flattered that someone found me attractive because ... I am secure in my orientation and can appreciate that another person simply found me attractive.

I have been to drag shows too. They are high energy and fun. It did not alter my sexual orientation, nor that of any of the people I went with.

These people are pathetic.

[cksmithy]

28. I guess the far right has

never heard of Finocchio's Club, San Francisco, CA, open from 1936 to 1999. As an eighth grader, on our graduation trip 1968 to to Golden Gate Park and the museums, De Young, National History, Japanese Tea Gardens, etc. Everyone one on the bus talked about Finocchio's club and if we would drive pass it. We all knew it was about men dressing up as women and putting on a show. We all giggled, laughed, because we all knew about Milton Burl and Flip Wilson. We kind of knew what is was really about, but none of us cared. I'm not sure, can't really remember, but I think they had ads in the local paper for Finocchio's club. A few years later Carol Doda ads were all over the place. We were about one hour away from San Francisco. One our trip we didn't see or pass by pass by Finocchio's on the way to the museums.

[niyad]

33. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[Initech]

34. Jack Posobiec can go eat a steaming bag of rancid dog shit.

Really, fuck that guy.

[Behind the Aegis]

35. ""Faggot dad in closet."

I hope everyone here reads that comment and keeps it in mind the next time they feel the need to declare a homophobe who has attacked or murdered gay people is a "secret homo".