Far Right Anti-LGBTIQ Groups Planning Protests of Multiple LGBTIQ Events
Far Right Anti-LGBTIQ Groups Planning Protests of Multiple LGBTIQ Events
Far right anti-LGBTIQ groups are planning protests of multiple LGBTIQ events in the coming weeks in Arizona, California, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Far right anti-LGBTIQ groups are planning protests of multiple LGBTIQ events in the coming weeks in cities including Flagstaff, Arizona; Stockton, California; Princeton, Indiana; Lima, Ohio; Lititz, Pennsylvania; and Arlington, Texas.
Protect Texas Kids, the far right anti-LGBTIQ group associated with a self-proclaimed “Christian fascists,” is planning to protest Six Flags Over Texas’ ongoing Pride Celebration. The group is planning to stage a protest during a drag show in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, June 17, despite the fact that the park states that you “must be 18 or older to attend the show.”
Far right anti-LGBTIQ groups are planning to protest the Northern Arizona Pride Association’s Pride in the Pines events on Saturday in Flagstaff, Arizona. The event has received coverage in right-wing media, which has focused on criticism of Bud Light’s sponsorship of the event.
Information about the event has been shared among the Telegram channels of the various chapters of the Proud Boys, the far right violent extremists street gang.
Wendy Rogers, the far right state senator, has urged her supporters and followers on social media to call the state’s Child Protective Services and report the Pride in the Pines event in Flagstaff as “child abuse” in order to “SHUT IT DOWN!”
Independence Reformed Bible Church, a fundamentalist Christian church in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, is planning to protest the Lititz Pride Festival on Saturday. The stated purpose of the protest is to “expose the unfruitful works of darkness being openly flaunted” at the event.
Far right anti-LGBTIQ activists are planning to protest the San Joaquin Pride Center’s “We Are Family Drag Show,” which is scheduled to take place in Stockton, California on Saturday. The organizers of the protest claim that LGBTIQ events are a “deliberate poisoning of children’s minds.”
The Idaho chapter of MassResistance, an anti-LGBTIQ group, will likely have a presence at the Southeastern Idaho Pride event at Caldwell Park in Pocatello, Idaho on Saturday, as the group has publicly demanded the city cancel the event.
Far right anti-LGBTIQ activists are planning to protest the Ohio Student Activist Alliance Pride March on Saturday, June 24 in Lima, Ohio, and another group of activists are planning to protest the Princeton Pride Festival on Saturday, June 24 in Princeton, Indiana.
