Gay Men Hijack 'Proud Boys' Hashtag In Powerful Social Media Campaign

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Source: huff post



QUEER VOICES 10/05/2020 02:40 am ET

These new-version Proud Boys are “standing bi,” quipped one wag.




Gay men launched a savvy campaign over the weekend to appropriate the hashtag of the white supremacist “Proud Boys” with a tsunami of touching images and messages on social media.

The love resistance movement sent “Proud Boys” zooming into the trending stratosphere.

But the posts weren’t riddled with the disturbing images and hate-spewing messages by the group Donald Trump told to “stand by” after he was asked to condemn white supremacists at last week’s presidential debate. (He finally renounced the Proud Boys days later after a mounting backlash.)

Instead, these Proud Boys Twitter posts were filled with photos of embraces and wedding scenes, and expressions of love.

In honor of the campaign, the official Twitter account of the Canadian Armed Forces in the U.S. posted an image of a serviceman kissing his partner with emojis of Canada’s flag, the rainbow flag and the rehabbed Proud Boys hashtag. “Love is love,” piped up the Royal Canadian Navy.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. From the Washington Post:

The Proud Boys were emboldened by Trump’s words. Then, LGBTQ couples reclaimed the group’s hashtag. #proudboys

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The Proud Boys were emboldened by Trump’s words. Then, LGBTQ couples reclaimed the group’s hashtag.

By Jaclyn Peiser
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Such a lovely collection of images...Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 http://wapo.st/3ibP4LE

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In Sight Perspective
WOW! Thank you

@washingtonpost
for the article on our book! Perspective | Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950

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Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950
By Dee Swann, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell

[riversedge]

2. Thanks for posting.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. indeed. ohm myyy.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

5. click the link peeps. quite the antidote to the mayhem.

[CaptYossarian]

4. This is my first smile of the week.

They might be prouder of a more appropriate name: Hitler Youth, Part DUH.

[chowder66]

6. Now we need the media to refer to them as White Nationalists or Nazis instead of Proud Boys

at the very least they could say formerly known as Proud Boys, otherwise has 'Proud Boys' really been reclaimed?

[world wide wally]

7. Oh my

[IronLionZion]

8. No joke, the Proud Boys name came from Aladdin the musical

[Hekate]

9. "Standing bi" : every one of these tweets & articles is an antidote to the poison spewed by Trumpism

Humor and love will win

[pat_k]

10. We need to start calling these people "white terrorists," not "white supremacists."

They are white terrorists and that is the label we need to start using. White supremist is not strong enough.

Their goal is to terrorize POC and other anti-racists. Plain and simple. They are terrorists.

P.S. Love the hijack of the hashtag!!