So there were two heartening developments in LGBTQ+ news yesterday. The first, of course, was the overwhelming community turnout in Peterborough to oppose the same dozen fascist dipshits that have been trying to disrupt drag queen storytimes or drag brunches all across Southern Ontario. Police estimated about three hundred people turned out to defend the venue, which is amazing. There was a similarly large turnout to counter hate yesterday in Coquitlam BC, opposing that province’s version of the Dimwit Dozen semi-pro bigotry team.
I’ve expressed my opinion of the bigots’ bullshit before: they’re not “protecting” anything, they’re just getting their jollies by being able to scream homophobic abuse in public without consequences. Honestly, though you’d think they’d start to get the point when every time the local community comes out en masse to protect these events while they have to drive for hours, pay for gas and rent hotel rooms just to make hateful fools of themselves again and again. The endorphin payoff has to be hitting the law of diminishing returns by now.
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