Morning Briefing: White Nationalist Groups Target LGBTIQ Community During Pride
Patriot Front and White Lives Matter, neo-fascist White Nationalist groups, have targeted the LGBTIQ community during Pride Month with propaganda and protests.
Morning Briefing: Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, staged two protests targeting Pride Month events in Missouri and Pennsylvania. Members of Patriot Front appeared outside the Ozarks Pridefest in downtown Springfield, Missouri, and the Indiana Pride Festival in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
In both Missouri and Pennsylvania, members of Patriot Front were confronted by community members, and the White Nationalists quickly retreated and left using Penske rental trucks.
The Penske rental truck company issued a statement condemning the use of their trucks by Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, “when the group returned to Springfield this weekend to protest Ozarks Pridefest.” The company’s statement called the incident “unacceptable,” and that Penske “strongly condemn these individuals and their actions, which violate our rental agreement.”
White Lives Matter, the neo-fascist White Nationalist network, has been targeting the LGBTIQ community during Pride Month by spreading anti-LGBTIQ propaganda throughout the country. Members of White Lives Matter have placed “Straight Pride” stickers in public areas in states including Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana.
Radical Reports is tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacists, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month.
In Longmont, Colorado, repeated thefts in the Harvest Junction Village neighborhood has reportedly “galvanized residents to respond with an overwhelming show of solidarity,” as an unidentified individual allegedly stole every pride flag while “other flags — including American flags and team banners — were left untouched.”
In Baltimore, Maryland, an unidentified individual allegedly “forcibly removed a Pride flag that was hanging in front” of the home of City Councilwoman Odette Ramos, who said that “obviously it is concerning."
If you have any tips on LGBTIQ groups or events that have been targeted online, or any intel on far right anti-LGBTIQ groups actions during Pride Month, please reach out via email or Signal.
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There is something deeply disturbing out the white nationals obsession what other people do in their lives, on who people love. My guess is non of them have a fulfilling relationship with a significant other, and they get off on speculating about other people’s relationships . They are quite like peeping Tom’s with no life another have it condemn those who are just living their life. Anyone in these organizations need mental health care and stop focusing on others peoples choices and figure out why they are obsessed with anything not white and straight. My guess is they are jealous, or so miserable I. The incel lives they have to try and make others as miserable as they are.
I bet that those who work for ICE are the same bullies who are working for the Partiot Front. They don't even have to change their uniform. They only change the colour of their facemasks.