LGBTQ activists DEFEND drag queens who chanted ‘We’re coming for your children’ during parade in NYC – and claim it was ‘taken it out context’
- Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words
- According to people who have attended the marches, the ‘coming for your children’ chant has been used for many years
LGBTQ activists have defended a video of drag queens chanting ‘we’re coming for your children’ during a Pride parade in New York City.
The video of the incident sparked widespread revulsion online – but prominent allies within the community have now said that it was taken out of context.
Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words that were chanted in the city over the weekend by crowds of people, including a topless woman.
He told NBC: ‘It’s all just words. It’s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.’
Griffin said he himself has chanted obscene things in the past, including ‘Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor.’
The video of the incident sparked widespread revulsion online but prominent allies within the community have now said that it was taken out of context
Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words that were chanted in the city over the weekend
He added: ‘These are the words that they’ve used all our lives to manipulate and control us, and we can now own them and see them for the falsehoods that they are.’
According to people who have attended the marches, the ‘coming for your children’ chant has been used for many years.
It’s used to ‘regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people,’ NBC reports.
An organizer for this year’s Drag March, Hucklefaery Ken, told the outlet that the change was a ‘bad joke that is being used to serve the interests of parasitic, predatory political propaganda and policy.’
Ken added: ‘We won’t tolerate harm towards any child and advocate for the protection and encouragement of every child to be able to live their true, authentic lives free from fear and persecution.’
The first female chair of New York’s Gay Liberation Front, Karla Jay, also said: ‘The person who said this in a march isn’t the person who came up with this idea — the person in the march is saying, “Go ahead, call me this; why do I care?”
‘The person is trying to destigmatize this and claim their own power. You can’t blame the victims here, and that’s what the right wing is doing.’
In response to the video Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican congresswoman for Georgia, said: ‘This movement grooms minors to have mastectomies and castration and fuels a multi billion dollar medical child abuse industry.’
The crowds were recorded chanting the words at NYC Pride
‘Pass the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. Let kids be kids.’
Jenna Ellis, an attorney who was briefly on Donald Trump’s legal team, said: ‘Remember that thing they said they totally are not doing?’
Collin Rugg, the co-owner of conservative news site Trending Politics, said the chant showed that the right were correct all along about the threat posed by the LGBTQ community.
‘The right: ‘The LGBTQ mob is coming for your children.’
‘The left: ‘You are making it all up. That’s a conspiracy theory.’
‘LGBTQ parade: ‘We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”
Some noted that the chant was a joke, designed to enrage their conservative critics.
But, they pointed out, it was likely to backfire.
‘This is why polling suggests support for equality is declining. These child-obsessed radical activists will drag us all down through their depravity,’ said one.
‘It’s intentional for getting ppl on the internet mad but it’s most likely gonna backfire,’ said another.
Another commented: ‘It’s like they try to make people hate them. I don’t get it.’
Oli London, spokesman for Fairness First PAC – set up to combat ‘radical gender ideology infiltrating our children in school — especially in sports and the classroom’ – said it confirmed what had been suspected.
‘They are not even hiding their intentions anymore now they are saying it out loud,’ he said.
And podcast host Graham Allen tweeted: ‘This is what EVIL looks like….’
This year’s Pride celebrations come as bills to limit or ban drag shows have been filed in more than a dozen states.
Usually held in June, Pride events began as way to commemorate the uprising by New York’s LGBTQ+ communities in 1969, known as the Stonewall rebellion, and as a way to celebrate the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Meanwhile at this year’s NYC event, a former trans rights activist who rejected LGBTQ groups was attacked for holding up a ‘stop female erasure’ sign.
Kay Yang, 36, works as a ‘deprogrammer’ to help parents and children who have been ‘indoctrinated’ by the ‘cult-like’ transgender agenda. Yang herself previously went by they/them and worked as a ‘trans educator’ in schools for years.
She posted a video of her being attacked at the New York City Pride parade on Twitter, with the caption: ‘My name is K. Yang, I’m a former trans rights activist & LGBT non-profit whistleblower.
‘I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens of people in Washington Square Park. Males who identify as females called me ‘b***h’ & assaulted me.’
Yang was holding a sign that read ‘Defend Female Sex Based Rights’ when she had her placard ripped violently out of her hands as she was hit in the head with a cup of water on Sunday.
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