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2. Seattle: Gays drowning out Christian hate with 'Pink Pony Club' on kazoo is the best thing you'll see today
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:32 AM
Sep 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gays-drowning-christian-hate-pink-191417668.html

Gays drowning out Christian hate with 'Pink Pony Club' on kazoo is the best thing you’ll see today

Rachel Shatto
Tue, September 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM PDT

Over Labor Day weekend, LGBTQ+ protestors and allies gathered to put on a delightfully absurd show of resistance during a far-right concert in Seattle’s Gas Works Park.

The event, Revive in 25, was a concert held by Christian activist group Let Us Worship, which is led by openly anti-LGBTQ+ leader Sean Feucht. In the past, Feucht has spewed hateful rhetoric, including likening Pride Month to a “demonic agenda,” and has said via social media that drag queens are “demonic, sick, twisted” and “perverting the minds of children.” He has also called for a “Christian uprising.” Feucht was formerly a worship leader at the controversial Bethel Church in Redding, California.

So it’s no surprise that approximately 200 pro-LGBTQ+ protestors crowded into Gas Works Park to offer some excellent counter-programming. Specifically, they rocked out to Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” on kazoo, drowning out the nearby evangelical concert.

If it sounds silly, that was by design. Speaking with KUOW, the Kazoo Karaoke organizer said the point was to bring “clown energy” to the protest. “The point of [Let Us Worship’s] event was to rage bait our community into eliciting a response,” Rae told the publication. So they began crafting a response that would “diffuse” that energy — and inspiration struck.

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