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While the NRA is ostensibly an anizatn foced on gun rights, members of s learship have attacked LGBT people for years, cludg blamg a mass shootg on gay marriage, llg societal acceptance of transgenr people “perverted,” claimg gay people “created” the HIV/AIDS epimic, and labelg gay people “spible,” “perverts,” and “generat.”

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‘GAY NRA’ SE SURGE IN MEMBERSHIP. REPORT: HERE’S WHY.

* gay nra members *

Pk Pistols, nicknamed the “gay NRA, ” has bee one of the fastt growg gun groups the U. “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 told a sweepg smear of the diverse Amerin gun of the turng pots for many the LGBT muny, Abboud found, is the horrific mass shootg by a radil Islamist at the Pulse gay club Orlando that rulted 52 people ad.

“She cid to take up arms two days after Orlando bee she said was the 9/11 of [the] gay muny, ” Abboud said of Smh. ”Cg the creased polil divisn the untry, a general sense of anti-gay sentiment, and a growg lack of tst the abily of law enforcement to protect them, Abboud said many the gay muny are creasgly takg their protectn to their own hands. “There is one murr per week of a gay person purely bee they’re gay, and that’s really horrifyg, ” said Abboud.

“The level of homophobia and transphobia the USA is out of ntrol and some people told me a gun is the difference between livg and dyg. ”The Post not that LGBT advocy group Human Rights Center (HRC) found that 52 gay people and 28 transgenr people were murred the U. “Gays that are armed and traed, don’t get bashed and killed, ” said Pk Pistols “poster boy” Jeff Bloovman, a gun stctor.

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Followg the Pulse nightclub mass killg of nearly 50 people at Orlando's "hottt gay bar" 2016, a natnal gun club found for the gay muny has seen a noticeable uptick membership. The Pk Pistols, found 2000, have more than 45 chapters the U.S., and s followg is growg... * gay nra members *

As befs an anizatn that se self a culture war, the NRA is perfectly happy to wa to gay rights issu – opposn, of urse. Media Matters has done a ndown of the long history of homophobia and transphobia at the anizatn.

Gay marriage mass shootg. No surprise, given that Blackwell is a fellow at the anti-gay hate group Fay Rearch Council. Gays are “the most protected class Ameri.

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The episo as rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the untry, where homosexualy is a crime. * gay nra members *

” Given the opportuny to weigh on a gay issue, Nugent will go for the most outlandish homophobic remark possible. That was the se 2011 when the NBA fed Kobe Bryant for g an anti-gay slur.

Nugent went on a tear about homosexuals beg “the most protected class Ameri” and then mocked the NBA and gay people wh blatantly homophobic stereotyp. “If the NBA had any te gay nvictns, the NBA should host a Homosexual Night, ” Nugent said. “Durg halftime, the homosexuals uld e down on the urt, hold hands and prance around the urt to mic by the Village People.

The NBA uld then give each homosexual a pk basketball as a symbol of solidary.

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The NRA fir s law firm for not supportg attack on gay marriage. While the NRA is ostensibly an anizatn foced on gun rights, members of s learship have attacked LGBT people for years, cludg blamg a mass shootg on gay marriage, llg societal acceptance of transgenr people “perverted, ” claimg gay people “created” the HIV/AIDS epimic, and labelg gay people “spible, ” “perverts, ” and “generat. The NRA Has Attacked Gay People For Des.

NRA Board Member Blamed Isla Vista, CA, Mass Shootg On Gay Marriage. After a gunman motivated by his hatred of women went on a shootg and stabbg spree Isla Vista, CA, 2014, Ken Blackwell, NRA board member and senr fellow at anti-gay hate group Fay Rearch Council, blamed the shootg on “the attack on … natural marriage”:.

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Blackwell Compared Gay Marriage To Inct. Legalizg gay marriage, Blackwell pared same-sex marriage to ct and also bizarrely suggted that transgenr and bisexual people would e same-sex marriage laws to mand participatn polygamo marriag:.

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That means Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenred. Blackwell Claimed That Gay People “Created” HIV/AIDS Epimic.

Durg the discsn over whether the ary’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy should be repealed, Blackwell wrote his lumn, “Already, this alternate liftyle has created what the gay groups themselv refer to as a Gay Men’s Health Crisis. NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Mockgly Suggted The NBA Should “Host A Homosexual Night” Where “Homosexuals Could Come Down On The Court, Hold Hands And Prance Around The Court To Mic By The Village People.

” NRA board member Ted Nugent slammed the NBA’s cisn to fe then NBA star Kobe Bryant for g an anti-gay slur, plag a 2011 Washgton Tim lumn, “Bryant mted this egreg verbal foul bee he ed a word meang to homosexuals, the most protected class of people Ameri”:.

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Bryant mted this egreg verbal foul bee he ed a word meang to homosexuals, the most protected class of people Ameri. Gay rights groups appld the cisn of the NBA, which mt make all the homosexual basketball fans feel peachy and special. Bryant's $100, 000 to buy urtsi seats for gay basketball fans.

Show some gay pri, NBA. Those among who work tirelsly to shut down (and shout down, if the need aris) speech they disagree wh mt also be absolutely gay wh pri and satisfactn over this fe. If the NBA had any te gay nvictns, the NBA should host a Homosexual Night.

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