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ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Pardon my stupid, I just woke up. What is this event, what is happening, what why
I require context
No idea where you’re located, but in America there are a lot of right-wing religious wingnuts that enjoy street-corner preaching, as it were.
Most of this preaching involves carring signs with a fire-and-brimstone message and yelling about how the passers-by need to repent.
The most famous example would be the
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yeah it’s common for these wackos to show up at pride events too. this appears to be one
Yeah trolling them or counterprotesting them is almost like a rite of passage in some circles. I spent way too much time doing that in college.
Ah, makes sense. Where I am from, there are neither visibly queer people nor visibly right-wing religious wingnuts.
As a visibly queer person I might be willing to make that tradeoff tbh
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
No idea where you’re located, but in America there are a lot of right-wing religious wingnuts that enjoy street-corner preaching, as it were.
Most of this preaching involves carring signs with a fire-and-brimstone message and yelling about how the passers-by need to repent.
The most famous example would be the
Westboro Baptist Church (cw: slurs, homophobia, antisemitism, etc)
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vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yeah it’s common for these wackos to show up at pride events too. this appears to be one
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah trolling them or counterprotesting them is almost like a rite of passage in some circles. I spent way too much time doing that in college.
ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Ah, makes sense. Where I am from, there are neither visibly queer people nor visibly right-wing religious wingnuts.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
As a visibly queer person I might be willing to make that tradeoff tbh