Gay couples swarmed the #ProudBoys hashtag on Twitter & it was glorious

People decided that the hashtag for a white supremacist group needed to be repurposed. The real #ProudBoys are called to stand up.

Just like that, #ProudBoys has a brand new meaning.

President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy at the first Presidential debate of 2020 last week, instead naming the group The Proud Boys, a SPLC-designated hate group, telling them to “stand back and stand by.” The Proud Boys, “founded” in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the co-founder of Vice Magazine, purport to be just a “fraternal group” that is “anti-political correctness” and “anti-white guilt.”

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While they claim to be fine with all races and sexualities, they have a history of taking part in bigoted, pro-Nazi or anti-LGBTQ events and actions, such as those at Charlottesville that led to the death of Heather Heyer in 2017. The Anti-Defamation League has deemed their ideology “misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic, and anti-immigration.”

In fact, McInnes has previously used LGBTQ people and tried to compare their rights to those of Nazis, saying it should be a hate crime to attack a Nazi just like it is to attack a “fa**ot.”

Following Heyer’s death, Trump said that they were “very fine people on both sides” of the unrest – which was mentioned at the debate as appearing to condone white supremacists – and all these years later, he continues to appear to embolden them.

This latest name check has led to several outlets featuring interviews and explanations of Proud Boys ideology, which they thrive on for recruitment purposes. Thus, people decided that the hashtag for the Proud Boys – which maintain “official” accounts on Facebook and Twitter, and especially use the latter for their operations – needed to be repurposed. The real “#ProudBoys” were called to stand up.

By Thursday, that idea reached out actor George Takei….

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/10/george-takei-leads-request-lgbtq-people-reclaim-proudboys-glorious/

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