Pk Pistols: LGBT Gun Owners Une Armg Gay Communy – Rollg Stone

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• PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
• GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
• GAY MUNICH
• MUNICH GAY MAP
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PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

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.

GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY

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.

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“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. ) 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.

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Its motto: “Armed gays don’t get bashed.

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” That month was a galvanizg moment for the queer muny, says Pk Pistols’ Palette, bee the night of June 12, 2016, was when 49 people were killed and 53 others were wound a shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida.

The 20th century is ltered wh such exampl: Jews, Gypsi, homoséxuals, and other non-Aryans Nazi Germany, the Armenians Ottoman Turkey, Christians Uganda, anti-Communists durg Mao’s Great Leap Forward, or anyone who was thought to be an tellectual durg Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. While the 21st century has th far been seemgly ls bloody for outsirs, thanks to an creasgly tolerant morn world, certa groups are still targeted more often than others – cludg those who intify as lbian, gay, biséxual, or transgenr (LGBT). A Sad History of Vlence Agast Gays and Other LGBT.

Before the eedom fights and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Amerin gays faced a life filled wh anti-gay legislatn and a society that believed beg gay was both a moral s and somethg dividuals uld “overe. ” The FBI and police partments, as well as state and lol ernments, kept lists of known homoséxuals, those they associated wh, and where they socialized. Even the Uned Stat Post Office tracked homoséxual packag, rerdg where they were livered.