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Bigots fight as pro-LGBTQ+ singer hijacks “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival

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    A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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    • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

      A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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      Love it!

      Fucking hateful bigots deserve all the shame and public humiliation.

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      • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

        A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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        This article is comedy gold! I particularly enjoyed the list of straight pride events in the past, such big successes!

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        • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

          A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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          The unfortunate truth is that this is the mentality that controls the laws and the budget.

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          • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

            A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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            Racist Alert: While live-streaming at the Hetero Awesome Fest and discussing the benefits of living in Boise, Idaho, David J. Reilly, host of the self-described American Nationalist podcast The Backlash, bragged that, "There aren't any black people here."

            Yeah this is pretty explicitly hate based. Rational people know and acknowledge that everyone is welcome at Pride so long as you don’t act like a raging prick.

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            • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

              A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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              is there any video of the song?

              i love the lyrics but can't find a video

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                A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                The event, organized by bar-owner Mark Fitzpatrick and held at Cecil D. Andrus Park across from the Idaho State Capitol [...] Fitzpatrick reportedly rushed the stage and took the microphone from Hamrick and then got into a scuffle with another attendee[...]

                “He sang a song with lyrics that go against our values.”

                What a hate-filled loser. His "values" are discriminating against and hurting people who are different from him.

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                • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

                  A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                    A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                    Now that's art!

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                    • tonytins@pawb.socialT [email protected]

                      A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                      I think "dozens" is exaggerating a bit, looking at the footage. I'd say there were about 4 people.

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                        is there any video of the song?

                        i love the lyrics but can't find a video

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                        It's a TikTok in the article. Pretty catchy song, too.

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                          I think "dozens" is exaggerating a bit, looking at the footage. I'd say there were about 4 people.

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                          Look, 5 were in the biffies…

                          (All 3 of them.)

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                            I think "dozens" is exaggerating a bit, looking at the footage. I'd say there were about 4 people.

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                            Maybe throughout the day?

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                              It's a TikTok in the article. Pretty catchy song, too.

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                              I don't have TikTok and couldn't get past their login prompt 😞

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                                A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                                It cracks me up that these people seem to think heterosexuality is such a low percentage that they need to prop up the lifestyle. /s start - Oh no like one in ten folks don't do things like us. WE ARE FACING EXTINCTION!!! - /s end

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                                  I don't have TikTok and couldn't get past their login prompt 😞

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                                  That's weird, I don't have it either. I just pressed play on the video instead of trying to open TikTok. Maybe that's why?

                                  Edit: It's not working for me either now. I dunno.

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                                    A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                                    I tried to look up the artist (Daniel Hamrick) and the top results are all about the murder of Daniel Hambrick, a black man that was shot by a cop while he was running away. This is America.

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                                      A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.

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                                      “In the name of equality & equal rights, I have created this event to celebrate our right to be heterosexual, and to encourage younger heterosexuals that they should be proud of their heterosexuality.”

                                      It just goes to show that when they talk about the LGBTQ+ community "targeting kids," it is, once again, entirely projection.

                                      Also, I'm not heterosexual and I'm not young anymore, but does their explanation sound as cringey as I think it does? I get the same vibe as whenever an adult tries to make something "cool," and because they pushed it, it instantly becomes uncool.

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                                        “In the name of equality & equal rights, I have created this event to celebrate our right to be heterosexual, and to encourage younger heterosexuals that they should be proud of their heterosexuality.”

                                        It just goes to show that when they talk about the LGBTQ+ community "targeting kids," it is, once again, entirely projection.

                                        Also, I'm not heterosexual and I'm not young anymore, but does their explanation sound as cringey as I think it does? I get the same vibe as whenever an adult tries to make something "cool," and because they pushed it, it instantly becomes uncool.

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                                        20 years ago I would have taken this as satire. Today, reality is far more absurd.

                                        They clearly don't understand what pride is about, or why it's needed in the first place. I don't go around showing my "straight pride" because there is literally nobody out there trying to make me ashamed of being straight. Never in my entire life have I felt unsafe because I was straight. I never had to worry about my family rejecting me if they learned I was straight. Being straight has never affected my housing security. I have not been subjected to verbal and physical assault because I am straight. Nobody has ever, to the best of my knowledge, been sent a brainwashing camp for being straight. There is not a single country on earth where it is illegal to be straight, and there never has been.

                                        You cannot say any of those things about being gay. That's why gay pride matters. These are not problems of the past. They are all problems today.

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