The former Out Magazine writerwho once interviewed hate speech promulgator Milo Yiannopoulos for a controversial cover story just argued LGBTQ peopleprobably dont know what the Second Amendment is. The statement came as part of a discussion about the Pulse Orlando anniversary memorial held in New York City. <\/p>\n
At issue, LGBTQ-centric Gays Against Guns organized and held a memorial rally at Stonewall Inn to simultaneously remember the 49 people killed at Pulse while calling for more robust gun regulations to reduce and eventually end mass gun violence. <\/p>\n
Gays Against Guns Pulse Memorial Rally at the Stonewall Inn <\/p>\n
In the events invitation, the memorial rally was described as a solemn and joyfully defiant experience as we remember the tragedy that brought the fight for gun violence prevention directly into our LGBTQ nightlife community. <\/p>\n
The event itself much like evolving pride parades-turned-resist marches nationwide demonstrates a change in the way the LGBTQ community engages with the rest of the nation regarding their rights, their lives, and their safety. Suffice to say, even memorials are now becoming occasions to fight back against a regime that refuses to acknowledge the need for let alone discuss sensible gun regulations. <\/p>\n
(Those in the LGBTQ community who were around at the height of the AIDS crisis can attest to the fact that this is not the first time memorials for LGBTQ people have taken on an explicit resistance-themed political tone.) That said <\/p>\n
Cue former Out writer and homocon Chadwick Moore to insert his opinion on the memorial and its political tone in a discussion with Foxs Tucker Carlson. <\/p>\n
Well, yesterday was theone year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre, inwhich Islamic radical Omar Mateen murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Tucker Carlson said. To commemorate the shoot a vigil was held in New York City outside the Stonewall Inn, siteof a 60s gay rights demonstration. But instead of just remembering the victim, thevigil becamean anti-gun rally. <\/p>\n
He added, Journalist Chadwick Moore was there at the vigil and he joins us now to tell uswhat happened next. So Chadwick, this was supposed to be a vigilfor the people who die, almost 50 who died in thatmassacre, but it becamesomething else? <\/p>\n
Thats right.I think mostpeople showed up, the Stonewall is sort of gay, its a gay holy site, right. Its the equivalent ofMecca for Muslims, Moore began. Its where everyone goes whentheres a large event that hasaffected the community, whetherthats tragic or celebratory.Its where people would haveinstinctively shown up tocommemorate the one-yearanniversary. <\/p>\n
What happened was is this farleft anti-gun group essentiallygot the permit, Im assuming, tohold a rally that day, outside, yesterday outside of Stonewall, he continued. They were the sponsors of this event. So people who were coming to mourn, who were coming to be together to reflect, who wanted to give politics a break instead were beingsubjected to this sort ofanti-gun propaganda, all of these signs, all of this anti-Trumpism. <\/p>\n
Later, he added, Most gay people arent political. Most gay people, you know, they care about pop music and going to the beach. They probably dont know what the Second Amendment is. And so they show up to be together, to celebrate the community, to mourn together and instead they are fed this anti-gun nonsense. <\/p>\n
To listen to the way Moore and Carlson portrayed the event, Gays Against Guns tricked mourning non-political LGBTQ people into attending an anti-gun rally disguised as a vigil. In reality, nearly 1,500 people RSVPed to the event on Facebook knowing what it would be, and approximately three thousand attended and stayed even if they found out after the fact that it was organized by a group aimed at passing sensible gun regulations. <\/p>\n
These people were not bamboozled; they came, they mourned, and they resisted, just as LGBTQ people and their allies across the nation are doing throughout the month of June. <\/p>\n
Photos of the event back that point. <\/p>\n
But Moores broader point also misses the mark. He paints the LGBTQ community as a group of people disconnected from the horrors of the current administration. His broad strokes accuse LGBTQ people of going to the beach and listening to music at clubs rather than knowing or understanding their constitutional civil rights. For being an LGBTQ writer, Moore doesnt seem to be able to take an accurate pulse of his own community. <\/p>\n
In Los Angeles, for example, the annual pride march morphed into a resistance march. Concurrent with pride celebrations, cities across the nation held Equality rallies and marches to coincide with the national Equality March in DC on Sunday, June 11, 2017. The political resistance to Trump and the LGBTQ communitys vocal acknowledgement that their rights are at stake is no secret. <\/p>\n
For Moore to portray LGBTQ people as nave party-goers unaware of their own civil rights isnt just disingenuous, its simply fake news. <\/p>\n
Heres video of the exchange courtesy of Media Matters: <\/p>\n
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