Meet Pk Pistols, the natnal gay group dited to armg the LGBT muny and fightg homophobia wh firepower – or at least the threat of
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- PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
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- STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
- GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?
- MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS
- GETTG TO KNOW THE GUN-LOVG GAYS, JEWS AND MOTHERS OF AMERI
PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
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Meet natnal gay group dited to fightg homophobia wh firepower – and why they thk gay rights and gun rights are a natural f. 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.
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A group of gay and trans people gather regularly the woods of New Hampshire to practice shootg. They want to be ready to fend themselv om hate groups. * gay person with gun *
“[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, ” 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.
STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
While the mass shootg prompted lls for tighter gun laws, has also led to a ph for gay people to nsirg armg themselv for protectn. * gay person with gun *
(Rch even ed the word “low-level terrorism” to scribe homophobic attacks like the one that end Matthew Shepherd’s life. ) 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.
GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?
Gay libertarian activists argue that more guns would help prevent hate crim. * gay person with gun *
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MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS
A group of gay and trans people gather regularly the woods of New Hampshire to practice shootg.
There's not a ton of data on LGBTQ gun ownership, but a UCLA study om 2020 found that about 21% of lbian, gay and bisexual people live a hoe wh a firearm.
This one featured a silver bullet, the tip of fire blue, next to the words “Gays wh Guns.
GETTG TO KNOW THE GUN-LOVG GAYS, JEWS AND MOTHERS OF AMERI
How uld any self-rpectg gay person support guns?
Gays wh Guns simply didn’t make sense. The first thg he did after his victory was take some of the $100, 000 prize money and upgra his Natnal Rifle Associatn membership to lifetime, last year, Cheng took to his blog to announce he was gay.
But he wanted people to see that gun owners were a diverse set of people—and who better than a gay, racially diverse, tech-geek-turned-champn-marksman to liver the msage? "Cheng might be the most proment gay marksman at the moment, but he's not alone.