Way back before Twitchy even existed, there was a photojournalist who went by “Zombie” who frequented liberal events and protests. This editor clearly remembers photos from San Francisco’s pride parade on Market Street showing leather dudes giving each other oral sex in doorways. Nowadays, more and more woke parents are bringing their kids to pride events to enjoy family-friendly events like “drag queen camp” and “dildo ring toss.”
A “family-friendly” pride event this weekend in Florida featured a dildo ring toss game for kids.
A school principal sits on the board of the organization that hosted the dildo ring toss booth.
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 14, 2022
NBC News investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh says a city outside Nashville has declined a permit for this year’s pride festival without first agreeing on a community decency policy to ban “sexually suggestive behavior.”
Outside Nashville, a city declined to OK an LGBTQ pride festival permit until they could first vote on a “community decency” policy to ban “sexually suggestive behavior” & excessive “displays of affection” from public spaces.
My latest w/ @d_arkin https://t.co/9g6KSKWZSu
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) April 10, 2023
Mike Hixenbaugh and Daniel Arkin report:
The fight in Franklin, a city of roughly 85,000 people, echoes earlier battles over LGBTQ acceptance from more than three decades ago and comes in the midst of a nationwide backlash among conservatives against the rights of transgender people to obtain medical care, drag artists to perform in public and LGBTQ people to see themselves reflected in school library books, curricula and the culture at large.
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Hold up: “to obtain medical care,” meaning giving minors puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and even surgery; and “drag artists to perform in public,” meaning sexually suggestive “all-ages” drag shows for children. If anyone would listen to conservatives, they’d know we didn’t give a flying f**k until kids started getting involved.
In Franklin, the seat of an affluent suburban county where nearly two-thirds of voters cast ballots for Trump in 2020, the heated pride festival backlash surprised some older members of the local LGBTQ community. Even in a conservative, predominantly Christian city, many believed the fights for LGBTQ equality and broad public acceptance had been won years ago.
Tom Rice, a 71-year-old retired art teacher who has owned a home in Franklin for decades, said he believes anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the area has become more pronounced over the past few years, reaching a fever pitch at the city meeting on March 28.
“I was most concerned with how vicious some of those people were,” Rice said in an interview. “Basically, they think homosexuals are sexual perverts and we’re out to get their kids, and we’re doomed to hell. They wish we didn’t exist.”
If you’re not out to get the kids, then — polite suggestion — leave the kids out of it.
Good! Sounds reasonable, to be honest, only groomers think this is a problem
— Chica'sBailBonds (@IrinaMoises) April 11, 2023
Good.
— Seprolus (@seprolus) April 11, 2023
Maybe you should just quit being so gross.
— Glazer Disc (@GlazerDisc) April 11, 2023
— Shamika Teller (@ShaMikaWhoSeeks) April 10, 2023
Stop trying to do adult things in front of children. It really is as simple as that.
— Small Fringe Shoshi 🚚🚛🚑🚒🚜💨 (@shoshido) April 11, 2023
But twerking in chaps and a leather mask in front of toddlers is a civil right!
— Black Ptolemies (@tellingly_told) April 11, 2023
This seems more than reasonable.
— Fred Utah (@Sleeping_Man79) April 11, 2023
Franklin, Tennessee is a wonderful place to work, live and raise families. The leadership of Franklin wants to maintain a level of moral and ethical standards that best represents the majority of its citizens. If you are uncomfortable conforming to those standards…leave.
— Nottoosensitive (@Nottoosensitiv1) April 10, 2023
Or maybe think twice about setting up that all-ages dildo ring toss. Just a suggestion.
Hizenbaugh and NBC News seem really upset about this, poor babies.
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Related:
Ben Collins explains all-ages drag shows, what they’re for, and how the far-right views them as ‘hypersexual’ https://t.co/wXSJw0lAVD
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 21, 2022
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