Right-wing pundit has a vulgar meltdown after seeing Pride flag

Pride flags gets Alison Steinberg angry.

Amidst all of the chaos and fear these days have brought up, the following makes me grin. It's tonic for all that ails me.

OAN Contributor Alison Steinberg is raging after returning home to Huntington Beach to find the city flying a Pride flag. (Language) pic.twitter.com/fk5rTg88hF

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 26, 2022

From Mediaite:

One America News anchor Alison Steinberg short-circuited over the weekend — going on a profane meltdown over seeing the rainbow flag in the middle of Pride Month. Steinberg, who previously mused that it was “gay” to support Ukraine in their war against the invading Russian military, posted a fire-breathing rant to Instagram on Saturday night over seeing the LGBT pride flag fly over Huntington Beach.

“Guess what I came home to be greeted with?” Steinberg said while pointing to the flag. “This f*cking bullsh*t.” 

 That was hardly the end of it: 

" What the hell is that? Huntington Beach is the town of good ol’ fashioned, hard-working American people! People that worked all through the Covid lockdowns. Yes, that’s right! Huntington Beach never shut down through any of the Covid nonsense f*ckery. And now we’re peddling this garbage!? What the hell is this? The only flag that should be up there is the American flag. This is a disgrace to our city and it should be taken down immediately! Whoever the hell is running this town needs to be fired! Make America great again! Make Huntington Beach great again."

Poor baby. In the long run, it doesn't matter what you do or say. It doesn't matter how many times folks like you call us 'groomers' and threaten us. It doesn't matter how many videos Libs of TikTok distort to hurt us or how many boardroom plans are conjured up with the goal of stealing our rights. And it certainly doesn't matter how much money is spent to put biased justices on America's courts.

LGBTQ people aren't going anywhere. And we ain't going back to the days of fear and shame, where we hid in the closet in large numbers or made excuses for people's bigotry against us.  What we got right now is what we earned the hard way. We're not giving ANY OF IT up without a fight.

So throw your tantrums, spew your slogans, get it all out. Try us and you will have a fight on our hands. And we know how to fight. 

NY library reverses removal of LGBTQ books and Pride display after intense community backlash

The following is an example of what happens when we fight back.  There has been a nasty wave of bigotry against the LGBTQ community this year and some folks have spent much time and effort spelling out the many ways we are 'doomed.'  We aren't doomed if we fight back:

According to the New York Daily News:

The Long Island library that decided to tear down Pride displays and remove books from children’s sections reversed its decision at an emergency meeting Thursday night. The Smithtown Library board of trustees voted 4-2 to rescind its controversial Tuesday night decision. One of the seven trustees abstained. 

The initial decision prompted a massive response by advocates and a strong statement from the governor, leading to Thursday’s emergency meeting. On Tuesday, the board voted 4-2 in favor of a “motion to remove all Pride Displays, in addition to removing all books of the same subject on display, from all Children’s sections in all Smithtown Library buildings.” One member was absent on Tuesday.' 

The initial decision to remove the Pride display and books garnered a lot of negative attention. Even New York Governor Kathy Hochul weighed in by ordering an investigation  She also condemned library's decision to remove the Pride display and books: 

 Hochul said in a press release today she is “horrified” by the vote and ordered the New York State Division of Human Rights to investigate reports of an anti-LGBTQ bias. “Public places are prohibited by law from engaging in discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” she said. “We will not tolerate a 'Don't Say Gay' philosophy taking root in our state.”

The New York Daily article points out that the backlash isn't over just yet.

Earlier, the decision prompted immediate action by the LGBT Network, a nonprofit that fights for the rights of LGBTQ people and their families in Queens and Long Island, which criticized the library’s “bigoted move” and announced measures directed at protecting local LGBTQ youth. .

 . . Late Thursday morning, the organization held a press conference to explain how it plans to act against the “really scary” decision by the library, which Kilmnick referred to as “an attack on LGBTQ youth in our community.” The measures, which were originally scheduled to be launched in the fall, will now be officially announced on Monday at a virtual town hall — after the library’s decision forced the group to “fast track and accelerate them.” 

 They involve the creation of “LGBT Network ambassadors” in every school district — parents, students, teachers and other community members who will work to ensure that LGBTQ curriculum is taught “and that our history is recognized, represented and not erased.”

BUSTED! Far right caught spreading false story that a drag queen exposed self to children

With the help of a doctored picture (first picture), the far right continues its inane lie that drag queens are  'grooming' children. 

Yet again in their need to demonize drag queens, far right conservatives have shown how low they are willing to stoop. 

According to the Associated Press:

CLAIM: A drag performer flashed their genitals to children while reading aloud in a Minnesota library.

 AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The performer in this 2019 photograph was wearing several layers of nude tights, said Hennepin County Library Communications Manager Joshua Yetman. “There wasn’t any exposure to children,” Yetman said. 

THE FACTS: As hateful and misleading rhetoric aimed at the LGBTQ community has escalated in recent months on social media, Drag Queen Story Hour events hosted by libraries or bookstores have become a frequent target. This week, some social media users are resurrecting a 2019 photo of such an event in a Minneapolis suburb and reposting it with false claims it shows the performer exposing their genitals to children. The image captures the performer, who is wearing a short dress while seated in front of students, reaching to the side for a book. In some versions of the post, a black box labeled “CENSORED” has been added to the space between the performer’s legs.

 “This is literally a sex crime,” reads a June 10 tweet that was shared some 10,000 times. “Adult flashes his penis to young children at library’s drag queen story hour,” another tweet read. However, unedited versions of the image show that the performer was wearing opaque nude tights that covered their genitals, a fact that Yetman confirmed to the AP in a phone interview Monday. “The performer was wearing tan or nude-colored tights, several layers of tights,” Yetman said. 

“They did not expose themselves to the children.” Yetman said the photo was captured in October 2019 during a drag queen story hour program at Ridgedale Library in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka. The image circulated online with the same false claims shortly after the program happened, and the library system debunked them at the time.

This isn't the first time the far right has run distorted pictures in order to demonize LGBTQ people. 

There was the following in 2010 during an attack on Progressive Insurance because of that company's pro-LGBTQ policies:

Doctored picture

Actual picture

Then there was this 2014 monstrosity below which you read all about here. 

Doctored picture

Actual Picture

It's the thing to remember and keep in perspective while beating back smears against drag queens.. The targets may have changed from gay men to trans men and women to drag queens, but the propaganda techniques never do.  Nor do the lies.

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'Right-wing media's latest anti-LGBTQ strategy is calling for kids to be taken away from their parents' & other Wed midday news briefs

Right-wing media’s latest anti-LGBTQ strategy is to call for kids to be taken away from their parents - 

 Candace Owens of The Daily Wire called for parents to have their kids taken away if they take them to a Drag Queen Story Hour event. She added that such parents are “underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it's child abuse.” [The Daily Wire, Candace, 6/15/22] 

 Right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder claimed that progressives are opening the door to parents having their kids taken away if they don’t help the kids transition. “No one complained when you did it [Drag Queen Story Hour] at your private gay bars, no. But when it's at a public library with children, all of a sudden that’s where you get people I guess guilty of hate speech,” he added. [BlazeTV, Louder with Crowder, 6/14/22] 

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested: “We need a show called ‘To Catch a Groomer’ where cops organize fake ‘family-friendly’ drag shows and then arrest all the parents who show up with their kids.” [Twitter, 6/5/22] 

Washington Times columnist Tim Young said parents taking their kids to drag shows “deserve no rights in this country” and “at the very least” should “be in jail.” [Twitter, 6/4/22] 

 On The Faulkner Focus, Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla claimed, “There was a time in this country of just a little more decency, where if someone even voiced the idea of taking your kid to a drag show, they would be arrested.” [Fox News, The Faulkner Focus, 6/7/22] 

Right-wing pundits use junk study from anti-LGBTQ group to spread lie that gender-affirming care leads trans youth to suicide - The old techniques never truly go away.

5 times that Republicans loved drag before they started using it as a political weapon​ - It's all about the power and the money. 

Conservative Anti-LGBTQ+ Trolls Cause Threats of School Violence - The new anti-LGBTQ right. And as tiresome as the old. We will win.

No, this gay man is NOT trying to 'convert' or 'groom' toddlers.

 

As this silly message I got earlier this month proves, the smearing of LGBTQ folks as 'groomers' of children is reaching the Twilight Zone level of inanity (click on graphic to read it):

How sad that your agenda is smothering our children! No one wants to “erase” you. Just stop trying to “convert” our toddlers. Some of these little ones are still in diapers, have pacifiers and blankies. And you want to teach them about your “pride”! Our little ones should be proud of themselves without you trying to convert them. Can’t you at least wait for middle school?

Well! I've been accused of many things as a gay man, but NEVER of trying to 'convert,' 'recruit' or 'groom' babies. Honestly speaking, it simply underscores just how inane this 'groomer' accusation is.

 I think I speak for quite a few LGBTQ folks (as well quite a few heterosexual folks) in saying that if I could truly 'groom' or 'convert' anyone, I wouldn't waste my time on kids with so many millionaires and billionaires around.

I've got fake fur coats to get out of layaway. 

'Transgender kids become the victims of ugly culture war' & other Mon midday news briefs

Trans kids and advocates blame culture war for debate over adolescent health care - In other words, people saw money to be made to by inflaming anti-trans feelings and lies. They didn't give a damn about the kids. 

Texas GOP adopts shockingly explicit anti-LGBTQ party platform​ - Texas is a drag right now. And not in a good way.

Mass. School Can’t Call Itself Catholic for Flying Pride and BLM Flags - The things I could say about the Catholic Church (but I won't.) 

Why are white nationalist groups targeting LGBTQ groups? - Homophobic as well as racist.

So-called anti-LGBTQ mastermind Christopher Rufo is a huge snowflake

Christopher Rufo

Far-right culture warrior Chris Rufo is mad at me.

Awwww! The so-called evil mastermind. Mr. BIG @NYTmag profile and so-called wrecker of #CRT and drag queens gets scared of a nondescript black gay guy from the south for simply making the argument that he is actually working FOR #LGBTQ people with his blatant public plotting. pic.twitter.com/rsVWpdD3li

— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) June 19, 2022

I take it as a badge of honor. This man is partly behind the attempt to smear LGBTQ people as groomers and pedophiles. And he even encourages people to lie on us.

He didn't appreciate me mocking his wannabe James Bond villain need of publicly bragging about his homophobic plots. Like this one:

I guess Rufo didn't appreciate that his latest tweet proves the point I made about him in an earlier post:

Rufo's eagerness and unashamed openness in telling people to lie in order to cast LGBTQ people as groomers says more about his willingness to put us in danger than about him actually wanting to protect children from danger.

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Far-right personality encourages supporters to deceive people into talking about 'trans strippers in school'

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Far-right personality encourages supporters to deceive people into talking about 'trans strippers in school'

Christopher Rufo

There is no such thing as "trans strippers in schools," but far right personality Christopher Rufo wants conservatives to start using that phraseology instead of talking about "drag queen in schools."

This is what I said about Rufo in a past blog post:

To the luckily uninitiated, Christopher Rufo is the newest homophobe on the block. That's right. Move over Peter LaBarbera, Linda Harvey, Matt Barber, Ryan T. Anderson, and every other bigot we've vanquished because Christopher has got goals to wreck us.  Unlike those others, he had the power of a cadre misinformers behind him either lapping up or repeating his every word. He first came on the scene pedaling the very successful anti-Critical Race Theory hysteria. This got him heavy mainstream attention.

 And now he has set his sights on attacking LGBTQ people.  Or at the very least, telegraphing it with the clumsiness of a James Bond villain. And with that clumsy telegraphing comes much embellishment.  That's always our saving grace when it comes to the enemies of our equality. They lie so much that they tend to lie to themselves.

Rufo's clumsy telegraphing continues with a bunch of tweets he sent out Friday:

There are no "trans strippers in schools" It is an absolutely ludicrous term which I am sure that Rufo and others on his side of the spectrum will defend with fake photos, videos taken completely out of context, one-sided debates on Twitter and the right-wing media, and doublespeak defenses so illogical that they would make your head spin.

But the point is how Rufo is openly telling people to play distortion games. To him, it's not whether or not there are actually trans strippers in schools (there aren't,) but that folks on his side can deceive and scare people with the idea. It's not about truth with him. It's about "framing the argument" even if the frame is a reprehensible lie.

Like the recent spread of the fake drag queen photo committed by other conservatives, Rufo's eagerness and unashamed openness in telling people to lie in order to cast LGBTQ people as groomers says more about his willingness to put us in danger than about him actually wanting to protect children from danger.

Candace Owens can't even tell a good lie. Far right personality busted using fake photo of 'drag queen'

 Conservative personality Candace Owens making a fascist fool of herself is as customary as a weekday. I am beginning to find it more and more difficult to be shocked by how low she stoops to grift the money. 

Still, girlfriend manages to pull a shock out of her cauldron every now and then. Like so:

Candace Owens says parents who take their children to drag queen story hour "are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them" pic.twitter.com/P5Bk3QIWqo

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 16, 2022

Really Candace? I mean really? Let's go over this again. Drag Queen Story Hour is a perfectly innocent event enjoyed by kids and parents alike. Owens is simply trying to attach herself to the current right-wing moral panic about drag queens. It's simply another way people on her side of spectrum spook the gullible with lies about LGBTQ people supposedly wanting to harm children.

And what's more, Owens doesn't even try to tell a good lie as shown by this image:

The picture on the screen behind her is not from a Drag Queen Story Hour or any drag show. It is from a 2019 heterosexual burlesque show. Owens is simply the latest far right personality (aside from Babylon Bee editor Seth Dillon and FL Gov Ron Desantis's spokesperson Christina Pushaw) to use the photo to lie about Drag Queen Story Hour and drag queens in general.

Owens even verbally misrepresent the photo behind her as coming from a drag show starting at 1:40.

If folks used logic in this matter, they would ask if Drag Queen Story Hour and the like are so dangerous to kids, then why do right-wing personalities such as Dillon, Pushaw, and especially Owens have to lie to make that argument.

In their defense, logic has no place in the world of grifting, spooking, and clout chasing.

'Right-wing media furious over Biden administration effort to protect LGBTQ students' & other Thur midday news briefs

President Biden

Right-wing media furious over Biden administration effort to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination​ - Acting in scary coordination, they repeat the same lies over and over again. 

Drag shows are the latest battleground in the right wing anti-gay disinformation campaign about 'grooming' - One wonders who they will target next.

Fox Sports doesn't show 'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider throwing out first pitch - Typical. 

Chris Evans doesn’t mince words when asked about homophobes hating on ‘Lightyear’ - THANK YOU! 

Mass. commission recommends LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, anti-bullying protections and training - Wonderful!

Video - Turning Point USA’s Drew Hernandez is obsessed with smearing LGBTQ people as 'groomers.' REALLY obsessed.

 

Editor's note - This is a special post because when I first saw the video, I had to post something about it. After read it, feel free to read  Did Libs of TikTok help set stage for white supremacist attempt to disrupt Pride event?, which was supposed to be tonight's only post before this guy showed up. 

 

From Media Matters:

The host of Turning Point USA’s daily show Frontlines, Drew Hernandez, has spent the first half of June targeting the LGBTQ community and Pride Month, referring to it as “groomer month” and calling LGBTQ people “mentally ill.” Publishing videos to TPUSA’s half a million-plus YouTube subscribers, Hernandez has called for parents who bring their children to Pride events to be arrested.

This video is like watching the camp classic Mommie Dearest.  You try not to laugh but its so ridiculous that you simply cannot help yourself. Hernandez's desire to scapegoat LGBTQ people as 'groomers' borders on obsession.  It's downright spooky.

Did Libs of TikTok help set stage for white supremacist attempt to disrupt Pride event?

Libs of TikTok (top picture), white supremacists who were arrested for trying to disrupt an Idaho pride event last weekend (second picture)

From Michael Edison Hayden of the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Right-wing influencers, including the pseudonymous, viral Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” repeatedly drew negative attention to the Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in its runup, setting the stage for white supremacists to target it. 

 Police arrested 31 members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front before they had a chance to descend on the crowd on Saturday, June 11, and charged them with conspiracy to riot, which is a misdemeanor. Had police not apprehended the Patriot Front members, the situation could have proven volatile. Before their arrival, people photographed other likely extremists who appeared to walk among the otherwise pro-LGBTQ crowd. 

 The conflict created by Patriot Front and other anti-LGBTQ agitators highlights the correlation between social media performers flagging targets to their right-wing audiences and the subsequent mobilization of extremists to act in response. An example of this trend is when Twitter influencers, including some high-profile hate figures, hyped election-related disinformation in the runup to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, setting the stage for what became an insurrection attempt. What happened in Coeur d’Alene, a city in northwest Idaho of roughly 50,000 people, functioned in a similar way, even if the players and setting are different. 

Out-of-state members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front and other extreme far-right figures could have chosen many different targets during Pride month. They homed in on an obscure event highlighted by Libs of TikTok.

The rest of this article should send alarms to us all as we celebrate Pride Month 2022. Libs of TikTok is a viciously homophobic site which encourages acts of prejudice under the lie that its protecting children from pedophiles.  What happened last week may just be a prelude. Libs of TikTok has gotten folks harassed and fired because of its lies  (such as the one about 'furries.') but  the white nationalist attack on a Pride event takes things to a new level.

Someone may get hurt.

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Fox News ran a positive segment with a trans teenager. Other members of the right-wing media lost their minds. - I still don't trust Fox News. Not by a longshot. And as you can see, even when it tries to be fair (laugh), the network's 'buddies' bring the hate. 

How Pride organizers are responding to increased threats to LGBTQ events - Good for them because they are noting the threat and taking action. 

Everything You Need to Know About Brittney Griner's Russia Detainment - Major prayers that she is able to come home.

Conservative hypocrisy over gay kiss in Disney's 'Buzz Lightyear' explained in a few pictures

 So if I am to follow conservative logic, Disney movies which feature the following are okay:

Getting killed in a sword fight (Sleeping Beauty)

Falling to your death from a high cliff (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Accidentally hanging yourself  (Tarzan)

Falling off of a tower into a lake of fire (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Editor's note - this scene was cool as sh!t!

Getting ripped apart by hyenas (The Lion King)

Getting staked by a ship while also being electrocuted.

But a lesbian couple below from the upcoming Disney movie Buzz Lightyear is supposedly DANGEROUS for kids to see:

If  seeing gay couples isn't appropriate for kids, then what about all of those death scenes? 

Let's take it even further. I hear that conservatives are 'alarmed' because the lesbian couple in the movie kissed. 

Big deal. So did these Disney characters.

In reality, this isn't about the kissing. Shapiro and company are throwing tantrums because people will not abide by their archaic beliefs of LGBTQ people. Our lives are normal. They aren't weird and they shouldn't be treated like an x-rated feature. We have families and kids. And no one has any right to put us in a box. 

Any uncomfortability some people have with our lives is their problem. It's not our job to make them feel comfortable.

Editor's note - it also should be mentioned that Shapiro's conservative news website, The Daily Wire, is making a move into feature films and television. It's not farfetched to guess that Shapiro's pearl-clutching is also more about making money than protecting morals. Mining outrage is very lucrative.

'Targeting of Pride events follow months of escalating anti-LGBTQ lies from right-wing media' & other Tue midday news briefs

Targeting of Pride events follow months of escalating anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from right-wing media​ - Homophobes are going to get people hurt. It's a serious problem. 

Seattle Pacific Grads Use Pride Flags to Protest Anti-LGBTQ+ Policy - This was wonderful! I loved this! 

Today’s GOP isn’t the one that Marco Rubio bet his political career on - Nope. 

Commonwealth Games Pride House aims to provide safe space for LGBTQ athletes and activism - Good for them.

Hate group angry that latest Disney movie features (gasp!) a lesbian kiss

 We are in the Twilight Zone of anti-LGBTQ hysteria. From conservatives making up stories about drag queens, to white nationalists putting children in danger to attack drag queens, to all this general Anita Bryantish throwback accusing us of sexually grooming kids, it's as if we are in a bad loop.

And the hate group known as the American Family Association wants to get its shots in.

And why should they? Well according to AFA:

Earlier this year and to the delight of parents everywhere, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state legislature passed the "Parental Rights in Education Bill," which prohibits public schools from indoctrinating children grades K-3 with pro-gay, pro-transgender propaganda. Disney CEO Bob Chapek initially said his company would not take sides in the controversy. Then came the loud, expected rhetoric from the rabid LGBTQ left, with their nasty accusations that Disney was anti-gay and hateful for not vocally opposing the law. 

The Florida law is simply designed to protect the youngest grade-school children from being taught lies, such as their birth gender might possibly be a freak of nature and that they can change it. As a result, Disney quickly abandoned its neutral position for one of total surrender. Chapek apologized to his employees in a letter, telling them, "You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry." 

 As a result, and to the delight of homosexual activists everywhere, Disney has announced it will restore a previously cut lesbian kissing scene in its June Pixar release of the kid’s movie "Lightyear." Disney doesn't think you will care, nor does it think Christian parents and grandparents will take a stand for their children and grandchildren. I think you will.

Apparently this kiss has gotten Disney in trouble in several Middle Eastern countries which have chosen to ban the movie.

It goes without saying that of course AFA is trying to get in on the 'gays are groomers' hysteria. Even without all of that, the AFA would have probably been sounding the alarm about the lesbian kiss. It's the group's brand to act hysterical when LGBTQ people get even the smallest dose of attention.

I see nothing wrong with a lesbian or gay kiss in a Disney movie. Heterosexual kisses have been a staple of the films for as long as I can remember.  What AFA is angry about is LGBTQ people being portrayed as normal. It ruins the stereotype of everything LGBTQ-related being sexual and not-for-children. But like it or not, gays and lesbians kissing is normal and I'm sure children see it every day. Let's not forget also that thousands of children in this country are being raised by LGBTQ parents. Seeing their parents isn't a big deal.

Children seeing LGBTQ kissing in general should not be seen as a big deal. People kiss.  It's not an agenda. It's simply a human act.  That's all there is to it.

Speaking of something being not-for-children, it's ironic how the AFA goes on and on about a simple lesbian kiss while saying, as far as I know, nothing about the violence in Disney movies. We're talking about scenes in which:

A woman falls off a huge cliff and then vultures circling down to eat her corpse,

A man falling headfirst into a lake of fire,

A man accidentally hanging himself by forest vines,

A lion being torn apart by a pack of hyenas,

A lion throwing another lion off of a cliff into a stampede of wildebeest who trample him to death.

There are so many other incidents in Disney films which AFA could have raised attention about.  But nothing sells like good old fashioned homophobia and bigotry.

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37 LGBTQ+ TV stars who have made history​ - This is very important because our fight for fairness still continues. 

After years of alleged anti-LGBTQ bullying, New York teen 'just wants to be accepted' - THIS article will have you in tears. It resembles so many of our lives growing up. 

LGBTQ+ Candidates Advance in Primary Races - Folks are scared of the upcoming midterms but regardless, we still have to come in blazing. 

LGBTQ outrage over DeSantis visit to NYC during Pride Month - As well they should be. That evil jackass was probably looking for ways to decimate us in the future. 

Homosexuality Voted to Be Struck from Pennsylvania's Criminal Code - Lovely. What took y'all so long?

The fruits of the groomer lie - Proud Boys storm a Drag Queen Story Hour event, putting kids in danger

Gavin McInnes, founder of the racist group The Proud Boys once shoved a dildo up his butt to prove that he isn't homophobic. His group just got into trouble for storming a Drag Queen Story Hour event no doubt buoyed by false claims that drag queens are 'grooming' children into sex. The irony is of this is as shiny as one of the sequins on the gown of the drag queens they falsely accuse.

From The Independent:

A group of Proud Boys who stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour event at a California public library and aggressively shouted homophobic slurs are being investigated for possible hate crimes. Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ray Kelly said deputies were called to the San Lorenzo Library at 1.30pm on Saturday to reports of a disturbance. 

 Mr Kelly said a group of five men began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at the event organiser, who had been reading to children and parents. “The men were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor causing people to fear for their safety,” Mr Kelly said. The deputies de-escalated the situation before anyone was hurt, he said. “An active hate crime investigation is underway as is an investigation into the annoying and harassing of children.” 

 According to Newsweek: 

 The incident began around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library in Alameda County, California. Members of the notorious right-wing white nationalist organization stormed the event being hosted by the group, Drag Queen Story Hour, which organizes family-friendly readings hosted by drag queens all over the country. The members, some wearing shirts with AK-47s on them, yelled out numerous homophobic and transphobic slurs, and accused the event's hosts of being "pedophiles." Alameda County Sheriff's Lieutenant Ray Kelly confirmed the incident to a local reporter, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, explaining that the individuals were escorted out of the library by deputies.

The Proud Boys are a notorious racist group which became very popular with its support of Donald Trump. According to People for the American Way:

The Proud Boys . . .  has a long history of violence, hateful rhetoric, and coziness with GOP stars and operatives, most notably Trump confidant, Republican fixer, and convicted felon Roger Stone. The group, founded by Canadian media personality Gavin McInnes and currently led by Enrique Tarrio, held a ​Sept. 26 rally in Portland, Oregon, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. Although the rally attracted far fewer attendees than anticipated, the event was spun by Tarrio with expressions of pride in having not incited violence—an effort to make their group more palatable. The group is, of course, better known for its members’ attendance at the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist gathering ​in​ Charlottesville, Virginia, in which counterprotester Heather Heyer was murdered by a white supremacist.

Their attack on the Drag Queen Story Hour takes place a day after police arrested 31 white supremacists before they were able to disrupt a Pride event in Idaho.

All of this madness is the result of the lies spread accusing LGBTQ people of attempting to groom children into sex acts. We are lucky that no one got hurt. This time. I sincerely hope that people like Christina Pushaw, Seth Dillon,  Libs of TikTok, and the rest pushing outrageous lies about drag queens and the rest of us harming children take a step back and simply stop what they are doing: 

Before someone actually does get hurt.

Related post -  'Proud Boys' leader used dildo on himself to 'own liberals' and prove he wasn't homophobic

South Carolina congressional candidate Mark Burns wanting to execute people for promoting so-called 'LGBTQ indoctrination'

MAGA Candidate Mark Burns Says Those Promoting 'LGBTQ Indoctrination' Should Be Executed for Treason from Right Wing Watch on Vimeo.

I have seen many things in my 15+ years of tracking anti-LGBTQ lies and propaganda, but I don't think I have ever seen such out-in-the-open homophobia and basic hate as I am seeing now.

Around the country, government officials and aspiring government officials have declared war on LGBTQ adults, children, and our families. They have tried to take away our rights to earn a living, be safe in our homes, and even basic healthcare. They have tried to stifle our voices and erase our existence. The only thing missing is open calls for us to be jailed and executed.

That is until now. Mark Burns, a Trump supporting pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, recently went on a rambling monologue in which he said the government should start imprisoning parents  who affirm their trans kids, teachers who support LGBTQ kids, and also begin executing them for treason, along with GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell for supposedly supporting any gun control laws. 

From PFAW Right Wing Watch: 

 During an appearance on “The Stew Peters Show” Wednesday, Burns was asked by guest host Lauren Witzke what he would do to fight “LGBTQ indoctrination” if elected to Congress. Burns replied that the LGBTQ agenda represents “a national security threat” and therefore anyone promoting it is guilty of treason and should be executed. 

 “I vote to make sure that those parents be held for child abuse,” Burns said. “There is no such thing as trans kids, there are only abusive parents who are pushing that evil, evil sexual orientation onto their child’s mind.” “I want to make sure that those parents have been held accountable,” he continued. “We should start putting some of those parents in jail for abusing their child’s minds. Especially in the school system, any teacher that is teaching that LGBT, transgenderism, furries, the groomers, any sexual orientation communication in the school system should be immediately terminated but [teachers should also] be held for abusing young children.” 

 Burns then declared that the current situation in the United States is “Nazi Germany all over again,” claiming that students today are being “indoctrinated” just as they were by the Nazis to become “future stormtroopers” and members of “the hit squads, the murder squads.” “They were indoctrinating those young minds then; they are doing the very same thing here in America,” 

Burns said. “The LGBT, transgender grooming our children’s minds is a national security threat because it is ultimately designed to destabilize the republic we call the United States of America. That’s why when I’m elected, I don’t want to just vote, I want to start holding people accountable for treason to the Constitution.” “I am going to push to reenact HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee,” Burns vowed. 

“It is a committee that we should reenact that starts holding these people accountable for treason. Lindsey Graham should be held accountable for treason for supporting Joe Biden’s gun-grabbing Second Amendment law that he’s trying to push forward. … Mitch McConnell just [urged] other Republican senators to support Lindsey Graham to come after our guns, to confiscate our guns. That should be held for treason.” “We need to hold people for treason, start having some public hearings, and start executing people who are found guilty for their treasonous acts against the Constitution of the United States of America, just like they did back in 1776,” Burns proclaimed.

Burns, who by the way got called out on live television in 2016 for lying about his education and military service, is piggybacking on all of this nonsense from conservatives accusing LGBTQ people of sexually grooming children.

Burns's tangent by itself is insane, but in this climate it can be downright deadly for LGBTQ people, our families and supporters. On Tuesday, a 17-year-old was arrested for threatening a mass shooting  at a Florida Pride event. Last week, a bunch of clowns made complete fools of themselves by protesting a drag function for kids, falsely claiming that it was sexual. Other conservatives have compounded the lies and outrage by threatening to sponsor laws putting parents in jail for taking children to drag shows and spreading false stories of kids supposedly tipping 'half naked drag queens.'

And don't even get me started on the multitude of  bills and laws pushed and passed by legislative bodies in Texas, Florida, Alabama and other places around the country attempting to keep trans kids from getting basic healthcare, censoring books about LGBTQ lives, and basically trying to shut us and our families out of the American conversation in general. 

Maybe Burns's  tangent was merely an inarticulate Freudian slip of possible future plans some would like to have for us.

'Is DeSantis trying to join the 'ban the drag shows for kids' train' & other Thur midday news briefs

DeSantis

Gov. DeSantis exploring crackdown on drag shows for kids​ - Look who is trying to get in on the act.

Babylon Bee editor Seth Dillon caught spreading false story about a child tipping a half naked drag queen - Because of lies like this no doubt. 

Far-right “Christian fascist” influencer led attack on Dallas drag event - Fully blown attack because of nonsense. They are attacking a church next and will probably end up hurting their own cause. 

More families of trans teens sue to stop Texas child abuse investigations - Thank goodness these folks are fighting back. 

Dwyane Wade proves he’s the best dad ever as he fears for his transgender daughter’s safety - Good for him! This is a father!