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This isn't the first time I've seen members of This Is Texas Freedom Force (TITFF) protesting a drag show. One TITFF member who has made threats outside drag shows has been photographed with a Texas state rep who wants to ban family friendly drag shows.
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State Rep. Slaton, who wants to ban family friendly drag shows, happens to have been photographed with a member of the TITFF militia that's considered an extremist group by the FBI. That militia member has made violent threats outside drag shows. 9/ twitter.com/stevanzetti/st
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The size of the pro-LGBTQ crowd has grown significantly, now more than doubling the anti-LGBTQ protesters tonight outside the drag show at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio.
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Due to the threat of armed TITFF members outside the drag show tonight (seen on the right), some LGBTQ supporters in San Antonio have decided to open carry in response (seen on the left).
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The atmosphere outside the drag show tonight at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio is festive on the pro-LGBTQ side and relatively quiet on the opposing side, where a group of over a dozen bicycle police are stationed next to the anti-LGBTQ protest.
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Here are a few more members of TITFF, who decided to open carry weapons alongside protesters who baselessly claim the drag show is promoting "wicked perversion" by "groomers and pedos.
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One of the anti-LGBTQ protesters outside the drag show on San Antonio tonight is trying to proselytize his religious beliefs but I don't think the other side can hear him.
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At least two members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front have made an appearance outside of the drag show here in San Antonio, Texas. They were also seen outside an LGBTQ event in Katy, Texas a few weeks ago.
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While the anti-LGBTQ crowd tends to be older with the exception of the Patriot Front members, the pro-LGBTQ crowd has a wide range of age representation.
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CORRECTION: I got my right and left screwed up on this caption. But it should be obvious who is who if you're paying attention.
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Due to the threat of armed TITFF members outside the drag show tonight (seen on the right), some LGBTQ supporters in San Antonio have decided to open carry in response (seen on the left).
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"Forced to take up arms defending trans lives" reads one sign held by a pro-LGBTQ activist outside the drag show tonight in San Antonio. Across the street are armed members of a right wing extremist militia alongside members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front.
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Despite the presence of armed protesters outside the drag show in San Antonio tonight, the pro-LGBTQ counter protest has basically become an open air party.
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At this point, the pro-LGBTQ counterprotest appears to be five times the size of the anti-LGBTQ protest outside the drag show at the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, Texas.
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One of the anti-LGBTQ protesters outside the drag show here in San Antonio claims that the pro-LGBTQ counterprotesters are paid by "George Soros" and then spreads an antisemitic conspiracy theory that Soros was a Nazi collaborator who turned in Jews during the Holocaust.
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San Antonio police showed out in force tonight to keep the two groups separated. There have been no incidents of violence, no scuffles, no arrests, and the drag show went off without a hitch.
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This guy with an "Ultra MAGA" hat, who is ostensibly protesting a drag show because it's too sexually explicit for children, is yelling things like "you've got a cock in your mouth" at the counterprotesters who are yelling things like "I fucked your dad" in return.
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While filming some of the anti-LGBTQ protesters, I remarked that I don't understand how they can say they're protesting the sexualization of kids while using vulgar sexual phrases. One of them who isn't doing that said he actually agreed with me.
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There's a lot of conspiratorial thinking on display here at the anti-LGBTQ protest outside the drag show in San Antonio. I've heard about George Soros, "globalists," and that the "trans agenda is a CIA psyop."
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Reopening the thread to note how right wing propagandists are already spinning last night's events. They selectively emphasize the presence of armed pro-LGBTQ counterprotesters while ignoring they were only there after an FBI designated extremist militia group showed up first.
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