Antimasker Who Used Gay Slur at Lawmaker Is Now Dead of COVID [View all]

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An Alaska antimask activist who recently called a gay Anchorage official a “cocksucker” has died of COVID-19.

Paul Kendall, who ran for office several times without success, used the slur toward Chris Constant, a member of the Anchorage Assembly, during a September 29 meeting on a proposed mask mandate for the city. The assembly is Anchorage’s governing body, similar to a city council.

At the meeting, many residents who opposed the mandate spoke to the council. When Kendall took the mike, he said to Constant, “I thought you were just a cocksucker, but you’re a coward,” as documented on video by The Alaska Landmine, a news website. Some people cheered Kendall, who was then escorted from the building. He was later arrested for trespassing.

“I’ve been called worse by better,” Constant, who supports the mandate, said when the meeting closed.

“The part that in fact shocked me to silence was when roughly 200 people cheered zealously,” Constant said the next night, as the assembly met again to take more public comments, TV station KTUU reports. “That was the part that zinged me and really took my breath away for a minute.”

Mayor Dave Bronson apologized for not speaking in Constant’s defense at the time, saying he was caught off guard. “What was said was intolerable, and it shouldn’t have been said,” Bronson said.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/29/antimasker-who-used-gay-slur-anchorage-lawmaker-now-dead-covid