Meet Pk Pistols, the natnal gay group dited to armg the LGBT muny and fightg homophobia wh firepower – or at least the threat of
Contents:
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
- PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
- MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay man with gun *
Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.
Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.
Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
* gay man with gun *
The late rapper’s rerd label released one of his albums dubbed “Grandsos” last week, and this week there’s a viral vio of Kg Von admtg to the police officers that he was gay, and social media is gog nuts. The vio first posted by DJ Akamiks saw Kg Von requtg that police officers put him protective ctody bee he was gay and hence uld be attacked a regular jail cell.
The late 26-year-old never admted publicly that he was homosexual or gave any sign that fans would notice, hence the vio shockg fans. However, on Tuday, footage went viral of the “Took Her to the O” rapper claimg to be gay so that he uld be moved to PC, durg a stt behd bars. Meet natnal gay group dited to fightg homophobia wh firepower – and why they thk gay rights and gun rights are a natural f.
WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
But I felt nfint my teacher, Jeff Bloovman, a Philalphia gun stctor and a member of the Pk Pistols, an LGBT group based around the belief that guns n go a long way batg homophobia. A small, loosely anized group of a few dozen chapters sttered across the stat and Canada, cludg Toronto, San Francis and Charlton, South Carola, the Pk Pistols’ membership has climbed om around 1, 500 earlier this month to about 6, 500 sce the June day Omar Mateen attacked the Pulse nightclub, turng the dance floor to a killg field and crashg together two culture war battlegrounds that rarely nverge: gays and guns.
While the majory of LGBT people seem to be llg for more regulatn, Pk Pistols and their alli are hunkerg down and takg up arms, bandg together unr the group’s motto, a nontatnal warng to potential gay-bashers: “Pick on someone your own liber. The Pk Pistols formed around 2000, after gay journalist Jonathan Rch – still outraged by Matthew Shepard’s 1998 murr, and knowg gay men who stopped attacks wh guns – published an article on Salon. “[Gays] should set up Pk Pistols task forc, sponsor shootg urs and help homosexuals get licensed to rry, ” he wrote, notg that they should do a way to garner as much publicy as possible.
PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
“Pk pistols, ” he wrote, “would do far more for the self-teem of the next generatn of gay men and women than any number of hate-crime laws or anti-discrimatn statut.
Rch went on: “If beme wily known that homosexuals rry guns and know how to e them, not many bullets would need to be fired. In fact, not all that many gay people would need to rry guns, as long as gay-bashers uldn’t tell which on did.
” Jt knowg that a gay person uld have a gun would ter a potential attacker. As Rch has nced, same-sex marriage, the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and other ton have empowered LGBT people, but remas that anti-gay attacks, like anti-Amerin attacks, n be vised upon at anytime. (Rch even ed the word “low-level terrorism” to scribe homophobic attacks like the one that end Matthew Shepherd’s life.
MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
) LGBT people know that each new space needs to be navigated litely, lt our mere existence enrage some homophobe.
Now, wh Omar Mateen, Amerins are all too aware how anti-gay vlence n explo randomly, terrifygly, and sr more than jt LGBT people. MINNEAPOLIS – A man armed wh a stolen gun uld face charg for threateng others si a Tw Ci gay bar.
Likewise, when a man's masculy and stat is threatened, they exprs more support for war, male superry and homophobic attus, summarized studi showed the 2013 paper "Overdog Genr: A Tt of the Mascule Overpensatn This, " published the Amerin Journal of Soclogy.