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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 08:00 PM Jun 2018

Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive

“I don’t want to get beaten to death, stabbed and burnt alive,” a slight woman with long blond hair and a checked shirt says. “I want a gun to feel equal.”

She is a member of one of the United States’ fastest-growing gun clubs, the jauntily named Pink Pistols.

Two years after the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, gay, lesbian and transgender Americans are nervous. According to the Human Rights Center (HRC), a US LGBTI advocacy group, 52 gay people were murdered in the US last year because of their sexuality, and 28 transgender people met the same fate.

In increasing numbers, they are fighting back by taking up arms.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/12/gay-americans-are-arming-themselves-to-stay-alive/
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Gay Americans are arming themselves to stay alive (Original Post) icymist Jun 2018 OP
I'm one of them gay texan Jun 2018 #1

gay texan

(2,403 posts)
1. I'm one of them
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jun 2018

In this territory, all it takes is one stupid redneck to ruin your evening and or life

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