Unicorn Riot's photos from August 31 "Straight Pride" and counter-demonstration in Boston are on the thread here:https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167818212420902913 …
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New: Homophobic Stunts in Boston Part of Long-Term Far-Right Pattern Unicorn Riot looks back at last Aug. 31 "Straight Pride" stunt in Boston, in a long history of similar homophobic provocations https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/boston-community-responds-to-police-attacks-amid-homophobic-straight-pride-rally/ …pic.twitter.com/mYV7aWhJWQ
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This report details the culture of organizing behind the 2019 right-wing event, similar homophobic provocations in years past, and a timeline of events last August 31. We are planning additional coverage including how communities addressed the aftershockshttps://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1174471015814053888 …
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"Super Happy Fun America" (SHFA), the group organizing these events, is also holding a “Back The Blue” pro-police event on Sat, Feb 22 in Boston near police HQ. A demonstration against the group is being organized by anti-racist groups
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More than a thousand people came out to protest the far-right values being paraded thru Boston city streets. One attendee explained to Unicorn Riot why they felt it was important to show up against "Straight Pride" on Aug 31 [video]pic.twitter.com/KEIwpPy3qL
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@RodWebber explained connections between neonazis like the currently imprisoned Augustus Sol Invictus, white supremacist brawler Kyle Chapman aka "Based Stickman," (Part of 2017 Boston "Free Speech" rally), "Resist Marxism" and local "Straight Pride" organizer Samson Racioppipic.twitter.com/ZDM6rk7PevAfficher cette discussion -
Your support makes it possible for us to cover both events like this - and undertake the research about the larger trends and historical patterns. Let's look at the history behind "straight pride" provocations going back years...https://unicornriot.ninja/donate/
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Reactionary ‘heterosexual pride’ rhetoric has been cultivated in the U.S. in response to LGBTQ ‘pride’ events, themselves rooted in the Stonewall uprising and anti-LGBTQ state repression of 1969.
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The primary goal of this tactic is to normalize far-right presence in the streets. A secondary goal is to inspire protests picked up by mainstream media. Resulting media coverage can be spun as Leftist negativity towards straight people by the far-right and reactionaries
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In 1990 'blue squares' discovered chalked around Harvard Yard and campus sidewalks in Boston. The square was said to represent four values: faith, family, country and community.
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The 'blue squares' were considered by pro-LGBTQ students and allies as an attack on the re-appropriated ‘pink triangle’ symbol originally meant to identify non-heterosexuals during Nazi Germany, including in death camps during the Holocaust.pic.twitter.com/m2QSXxjRE3
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Also in 1990 a conservative student group held a ‘Straight-Pride Rally’ at UMass-Amherst. Bibles & American flags waved as ‘Young Americans for Freedom’ “shouted vitriolic denouncements of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals.” Students on that campus formed the ‘Heterosexual Club.’
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In 2011 Towson University (MD) held a ‘Straight Pride Day‘ organized by Matthew Heimbach thru his campus chapter of Youth for Western Civilization. His ‘Straight Pride Day’ included a speech by Bay Buchanan (Pat Buchanan’s sister) and rhetoric against both communists & Muslims
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‘It’s OK To Be White’ campus events organized by white supremacists and promoted on racist websites are similar in aim to the ‘Straight Pride’ gatherings; the goal is to provoke a reaction that can be spun as unreasonable and irrational.
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At the 2019 Straight Pride event in Boston, in dozens of videos shared on social media, many protesters can be seen being battered with batons and bicycles, and doused with pepper spray.https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1167896634174267393 …
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As anti-racists gathered to oppose the rally, Boston PD repeatedly made sudden arrests and attacked protesters without apparent provocation.https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167831472482316295 …
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It later became known that megaphone seizures and facial coverings were cited as excuses for police advances and arrests during
#StraightPridehttps://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167903594122625024 …Afficher cette discussion -
A multi-jurisdiction contingent of motorcycle police under the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC) blasted the counter-demonstrating crowd with high volume sirenshttps://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167857794122276866 …
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Despite low crowd tension, a motorcycle group rolled south on Congress Street in the midst of the counter-demonstrators, while the event was winding down.https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167875172004548608 …
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Unicorn Riot asked BPD Captain Danilecki in charge of mounted unit what their tactical objective was. Brandishing a can of pepper spray, gave no statement besides “Move back.” The Captain lost control of his pepper spray can, dropping it into crowd.
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Officers began pepper-spraying many individuals including our Unicorn Riot reporter.https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1167897973465870337 …
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Dozens of individuals were exposed to pepper spray, and many near the Congress Street median fence were struck by COBRA officers wielding their bicycles as blunt weapons.https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1167896587638456320?s=20 …
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In the months that followed, community members in the region sought answers as to why their local police officers had been dispatched to such a poorly managed event in a city like Boston that prides itself on its tolerant reputation. Unicorn Riot will continue to report on this.pic.twitter.com/USl9l026Rt
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Read our full report here about
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