Gay Against Guns Stage Die-In At NYC Pride

June 27, 2016 Activism, Pulse Massacre

Bustle reports:

LGBT activists who want stricter gun laws seized the day at New York City’s Pride March on Sunday, staging a “die in” on 5th Avenue to draw attention to anti-gay gun violence. But the ‘Gays Against Guns’ Pride demonstration was much more than a one-time thing. It was work of an entirely new advocacy group, founded in the wake or the Orlando shooting and dedicated to stopping “the life-threatening convergence of homophobia and flawed gun policies.”

Gays Against Guns, or GAG, was formed a week before the pride parade, not long after 49 LGBT Americans were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The group is still “figuring out our place in the larger pre-existing gun control movement,” according to a post its Facebook page, but its website lists a couple of specific policy demands: A ban on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, more thorough background checks for gun purchases, and elimination of the gun show and Internet sales loopholes.

“We know that several groups have been fighting gun violence in the U.S. for decades now,” group co-founder Kevin Hertzog said in a press release. “We’ll be meeting after Pride to hash out positions and a strategy approaching the November 2 elections. But for now, we want to present as large a crowd as possible on Sunday, to show New York and the U.S. that LGBTQ people are outraged. The current situation with guns in America makes us gag in disgust!”

The Gays Against Guns contingent was indeed massive, rivaling the large number of Hillary supporters. As you’ll see below, homocons Trump supporters Richard Grenell and Jim Hoft are VERY angry about one of their signs.




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