LGBT+ activists stage 'wedding' between three men and a dog outside Tory HQ to protest Boris Johnson's 'homophobic' comments

This election campaign has seen people engage in creative forms of protest to bring awareness to important issues.

Remember when Jo Swinson was branded "patronising" by two men dressed as bees?

Now hundreds of LGBT+ activists have staged a "wedding" between three men and a dog outside Conservative party HQ, to protest Boris Johnson’s past comments on gay marriage.

Queer activist groups working under the name “Bum Boys Against Boris” organised the satirical performance. The mock marriage is a reference to a link that Johnson made between gay marriage and marrying dogs in 2001.

Johnson wrote:

If gay marriage was OK … Then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.

Following the ceremony, attendees staged an LGBT+ "kiss in" and danced alongside banners and placards with quotes of Johnson's which are offensive to minority groups. There were also speeches from African Rainbow Family, Docs Not Cops and UK Student Climate Network called for the LGBT+ community to reject Boris Johnson and the Conservative’s policies.

Bum Boys Against Boris have been fierce campaigners against the Conservative party this general election, having fold anti-Boris t-shirts and organised voter registration drives from an anti-Tory platform in London's LGBT-friendly Soho area.

Sam Björn, a spokesperson for the group, said:

Boris Johnson, for many years, has shown complete disregard for people different than himself.

He has been unabashedly homophobic, racist, ableist, and sexist throughout his career, and we refuse to let his election campaign sweep these comments under the rug.

Here's some more pictures from the protest.

Photos: Edith Whitehead

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