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

Contents:

• WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY NRA: ‘GAYS WH GUNS’ ARM THEMSELV RERD NUMBERS
• MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• 734 GAYS AGAST GUNS STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE

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. ”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.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

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.

PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

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. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“[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.

GAY NRA: ‘GAYS WH GUNS’ ARM THEMSELV RERD NUMBERS

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.

MAN WH STOLEN GUN ARRTED AFTER MAKG THREATS SI MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Gay NRA: ‘Gays wh Guns’ Arm Themselv Rerd Numbers.

734 GAYS AGAST GUNS STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

A new televisn show looks to the trend of “gays wh guns, ” or the “pk pistols. Two years after the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, gay, lbian and transgenr Amerins are nervo.

Acrdg to the Human Rights Center (HRC), a US LGBTI advocy group, 52 gay people were murred the US last year bee of their sexualy, and 28 transgenr people met the same fate. It’s brought them to lock step wh pro-gun groups that haven’t, historilly, been all that welg of gay people.

Atralian journalist Patrick Abboud traveled to the US to meet some of the new gun-totg gay people, for a report to be broadst on Atralian news show “The Feed” on Tuday. The Pk Pistols are sometim lled the “gay NRA, ” which is funny to most of s members. “I would never have thought I’d see the LGBTI muny sidg wh credibly nservative, right-wg, pro-gun advot that have been publicly homophobic and transphobic — that didn’t make any sense, ” Abboud said.