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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.

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

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.” * 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.

20-PL YEARS OF ANTI-GAY HATE FROM THE NRA

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 *

”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.

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

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“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.

WE TEACH QUEERS TO SHOOT': GROUP DUBBED THE 'GAY NRA' GROWG POPULARY

”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. As befs an anizatn that se self a culture war, the NRA is perfectly happy to wa to gay rights issu – opposn, of urse.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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.

GAY NRA MEDIA MANAGER: MY COMMUNY MISSG THE VALUE OF GUN RIGHTS

” 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.

STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

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