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Greg Evans
Sep 02, 2019
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On Saturday the city of Boston, Massachusetts hosted the first-ever 'Straight Pride' parade, a contentious event that was destined for ridicule before it had even begun.
Reports state that around 100 to 200 people attended the march where pro-Trump flags were waved, with right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulus also in attendance.
The small group marched from City Hall Plaza to Copley Square where they met another group who had gathered in the square, which is reportedly the exact same route adopted by Boston pride.
The organisers, who call themselves 'The Straight Pride Coalition' of the group have already been discovered to have links to far-right and white nationalist groups, are focused on:
protecting traditional gender roles, Christianity, heterosexuality, Western Civilization, and Caucasians [who are] the biological majority of the historical developers and founders of Western Civilization.
If you already thought this sounded bad enough wait until you see the two minute footage of the event below that was filmed by local journalist Kelly Sullivan.
The #StraightPrideParade now on its way to City Hall Plaza. #Boston25 https://t.co/44RayYZVRU— Kelly Sullivan (@Kelly Sullivan) 1567268177
In the space of 120 seconds you can see:
- Someone dressed as a dinosaur
- Someone dressed as a shark carrying a 'straight lives matter' sign
- A 'wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman' on top of an SUV
- Lots of American flags and lots of Trump flags
- A '2020 Trump Unity Bridge'
- Placards reading 'Make normalcy normal again'
- A few Israeli flags
- A clown
- A float promoting 'Super Fun Happy America'
- They also appear to be listening to a song called freedom
And that's about it...
As you can imagine this has been mercilessly mocked on social media, with people barely able to comprehend what they have just watched.
For men who are allegedly so “proud” of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to… https://t.co/AS5k4s1YxF— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1567293754
The straight pride parade is so embarrassing I'm afraid of telling my parents that I'm straight. https://t.co/2H6LI0IfjW— Jemaine Clement (@Jemaine Clement) 1567380320
To all my white LGBT friends, I need you to be clear that the straight pride parade isn't *just* a homophobic/trans… https://t.co/1GGYX8gsbo— Fatti LaBelle (@Fatti LaBelle) 1567328092
I feel like a “straight pride” parade being 100% white male Trump supporters is a surprise to literally no one https://t.co/NdzuYEDgDo— Maximilian Uriarte (@Maximilian Uriarte) 1567294113
Just had a quick look at footage from that Straight Pride parade... https://t.co/RzKtIC2eqB— Gav Murphy (@Gav Murphy) 1567361230
@ksullivannews Sooo basically this is just a way for white supremacists & trump supporters to have a parade lmao— K E V I N ✨ (@K E V I N ✨) 1567280064
Beyond the actual footage of the parade, people were more than happy to ridicule this event.
Me forcing my fiancé to film this same bit every time we go to the airport is the real Straight Pride Parade. https://t.co/3GclPmpPX4— Jesse McLaren (@Jesse McLaren) 1567308800
So the Straight Pride parade happened in Boston today https://t.co/hrSGRmZI8B— bonfire10 (@bonfire10) 1567294624
Straight Pride Parade in a nutshell https://t.co/fDBAxF6Ju7— jordan (@jordan) 1567272376
Everyone at the straight pride parade https://t.co/T08REzny1C— Kev 🌳 (@Kev 🌳) 1567373429
Here's a guy with green makeup in a kekistan shirt holding a pillow with some weird anime version of sargon of akka… https://t.co/Rwp99McoBN— Wild Geerters (@Wild Geerters) 1567272926
There were also reports of counterprotests which managed to outnumber the straight pride marchers, significantly. Local businesses also had posters in their windows voicing their disapproval of the march.
A lot of businesses along the #StraightPride route have rainbow flags out, or in the case of this building, signs s… https://t.co/aDJUds3orD— Zack Ford (@Zack Ford) 1567266480
Seriously the counterprotesters significantly outnumber the #StraightPride participants. https://t.co/jJ9kplPNtp— Zack Ford (@Zack Ford) 1567270148
Counter protesters screaming at Straight Pride participants. #StraightPride https://t.co/Z8wDRuCI6G— Mike (@Mike) 1567269845
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