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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:24 PM Dec 2022

Proud Boys Promise to Disrupt More Drag Story Time Events

A holiday drag story time event was canceled in Columbus, Ohio, after the Proud Boys and other right-wing extremist groups showed up in force.

Red Oak Community School and the First Unitarian Universalist Church had advertised its “Holi-Drag” story time charity event for kids last month. Shortly after, members of the Proud Boys announced plans to disrupt the event, Right Wing Watch first reported.

On Saturday, scores of Proud Boys dressed in the signature black and yellow uniforms and members of Patriot Front, some of whom were armed, rallied outside of the First Unitarian Universalist Church, which was hosting the event. Alleging that the story time event amounts to “grooming”—the rhetoric at the heart of recent political attacks on LGBTQ people—the Proud Boys held signs with messages like, “Groomers make Santa sad” and “Groomers go home.” Another read “Proud Boys Story Hour Today’s Book Death of the West Chapter 9,” in an apparent reference to a book authored by far-right activist Pat Buchanan, who fearmongers about immigrants replacing “America’s white majority.”

Other videos show Proud Boys members dancing to the “YMCA,” the unofficial LGBTQ anthem, and a police officer acknowledging that he high-fived a Proud Boy because he had complimented his mustache.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/proud-boys-promise-to-disrupt-more-drag-story-time-events/


Thanks GOP and Fox, we now have our own version of ISIS operating on American soil. Fuck all of these assholes.
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Proud Boys Promise to Disrupt More Drag Story Time Events (Original Post) Initech Dec 2022 OP
I have a feeling that they are going to show up at a drag performance and Samrob Dec 2022 #1
Fucking Nazis should be deoorted RAB910 Dec 2022 #2
Don't know what deoorted is but yea!!!! And deported too. 😉 LakeArenal Dec 2022 #12
Yeah they can go get their kill fantasies out in Putin's volunteer army. Initech Dec 2022 #13
More power outages. sarcasmo Dec 2022 #3
They found someone they think they can bully gratuitous Dec 2022 #4
They got kicked the fuck out of Eugene a few weeks back. The_Casual_Observer Dec 2022 #11
TPBs...Nothing more than the new generation KKK.... ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2022 #5
If we have one again locally vercetti2021 Dec 2022 #6
let me know when and where.... n/t gay texan Dec 2022 #8
I will! vercetti2021 Dec 2022 #10
They tried that shit in Eugene and down in Florida and got kicked out. The_Casual_Observer Dec 2022 #7
What brave boys they are!!! Not. LakeArenal Dec 2022 #9
big win for the nazis unfortunately. should not have cancelled event IMO nt msongs Dec 2022 #14
Ohh! Ohh! I've got this ... sanatanadharma Dec 2022 #15

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
1. I have a feeling that they are going to show up at a drag performance and
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:27 PM
Dec 2022

the performers will shoot the shit out of them.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. They found someone they think they can bully
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:28 PM
Dec 2022

The crunchy granola soy boys in Portland proved to be a little tougher than they thought. They're going to find out the same thing about their next target, and find out just what the difference is between bullying what you think is a soft target versus people who've fought their entire lives to be who they are.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
6. If we have one again locally
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:29 PM
Dec 2022

I will be there protecting the queens with my fucking gun. I'm tired of these lil vanilla fuck boys trying to act tough. You wanna see a tough? You'll see it "boys"

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
7. They tried that shit in Eugene and down in Florida and got kicked out.
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 08:31 PM
Dec 2022

That particular show was cancelled and the church asked that nobody counter the protest. The Nazis get scared off if there is any sizable resistance.

sanatanadharma

(3,696 posts)
15. Ohh! Ohh! I've got this ...
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 09:33 PM
Dec 2022

Drag-costumed flash-mobs ought show up to counter-dance to YMCA along side of the masked goons on the sidewalks.
50, 60, 70 people dragging the bois in a counter-direction would be so camp.

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