A mysterious poster campaign began making its way through West Hollywood on Wednesday morning; posters featuring a queered-up version of the Gadsden Flag, complete with a rattlesnake chillaxin’ on top of the Pride rainbow.
Featuring the hashtag #ShootBack, the poster is not-so subtly advocating for a harsher, more aggressive stance on gay self-defense.
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As The Daily Wire reports, the posters have been seen all over the neighborhood, prominently displayed on storefronts for Pacific Design Center, The Abbey, and, improbably, West Hollywood City Hall.
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Artist Chad Michael Morrisette even arranged 50 mannequins on his rooftop to highlight the artwork; an oblique tribute to the Pulse victims.
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The poster campaign is clearly a call to (and for) arms; a provocative plea for gays to abandon any notion of pacifism, and embrace the Second Amendment rather than hope for its amendment.
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Alistair Wiseman
“Who is distributing Pro-Gay, Pro-Gun Posters Throughout West Hollywood?”
People with common sense who want gays and lesbians to be prepared, educated and self-reliant.
It’s not the Right that wants gays to die cowering in bathrooms with shouts of “Allahu Akbar” ringing in their ears, it’s the American Left. (“It’s a good thing that bar was a gun free zone; it could have gotten messy if people could shoot back.”)
“Armed gays don’t get bashed.”
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: Nope. You aren’t protected. Stop lying. Open carry states have many mass shootings. And most mass shootings were done by white men.
You are just beyond ignorant. Totally braonfead.
Stop staining this website with your cr@p!
GC1985
Totally braindead I mean lol.
Whoever distributed these flyers ought to face charges for inciting violence.
And if people shot back in a club with all the fog and noise many more would get killed in the crossfire.
You are a complete idiot! Please leave this site you wretched man! I have seen your Facebook.. You are totally demented.
Bob LaBlah
I fail to understand the reasoning behind removing that article from the site. But then there is so much about this site I no longer understand that one can only say “oh what the hell”. Just as we need to steer away from mass hysteria censorship is NOT the way to go either, even amongst yourselves. Like it or not the NEWS is what it is.
http://www.queerty.com/gun-sales-skyrocket-among-lgbtq-americans-aftermath-orlando-massacre-20160616#comment-1140217
ishtarabz
@GC1985: I’d say more than 5,000 Americans have been killed by Muslims. Did you forget 9/11?
ishtarabz
@GC1985: Tell that to the gays and lesbians joining gun clubs for self defense. I don’t think they share your conclusions.
ishtarabz
@Alistair Wiseman: Right on!
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
Hey Bob!
It looks like Queerty is “censoring” their own posts!
I don’t think the comment section was going in their planned leftist way.
Alistair Wiseman
Below are the active Pink Pistol chapters listed alphabetically by state:
Huntsville, AL
Valley of the Sun, AZ
Oakland/Alameda, CA
Sacramento, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
Central Coast Pink Pistols, San Luis Obispo Region, CA
Atlanta, GA
South Central Indiana, IN
Michigan (Lansing Regional)
Twin Cities, MN (Minneapolis–Saint Paul Regional)
Las Vegas, NV
New York City, NY
Asheville, NC
Cleveland Area (OH) – CLE
Toledo, OH
Portland, OR
Delaware Valley,PA (Philadelphia Regional)
Pink Pistols of Pittsburgh,PA
Pink Pistols Charleston, SC
Memphis, TN
Central TX (San Antonio/Austin Regional)
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
Rio Grande Valley, TX (Send friend request to Valley Pink)
Salt Lake City, UT
Northern Virginia, VA
Seattle, WA
Spokane,WA
Tacoma,WA
Madison, WI
Canada:
Lower Mainland, BC, Canada
Toronto, Ontario
ishtarabz
@Alistair Wiseman: Right on!@Alistair Wiseman: That is their solution. Censorship. PC language, gun control rather than solving the bigger problem. What would you expect though. You have a Muslim president with connections to the Moslem Brotherhood
ishtarabz
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
GC1985
@ishtarabz: Glad to see another fake account here! Instead of parroting others come up with your own thoughts. Americans overall now want tougher gun control. Trump has plummeted and Hillary and Elizabeth Warren are suddenly the most popular, especially amongst LGBT people. 90% want tougher laws
GC1985
@ishtarabz: Yeah under Dubya gun freak president. You are clueless!
GC1985
Another poll has Hillary up by 9% over Trump and even strongly republican leaning Rasmussen has her up by 5-6%. This is scary stuff for republicans. Trump is in a total free fall. He mismanaged the whole situation very poorly.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
This is WITHOUT Sanders even endorsing Hillary, which is impending. Once that happens Hillary’s own support level will shoot far above 50%.
GC1985
Watch and learn. Guns are NOT and NEVER will be the answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhANTymDIYk
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: It’s only going to get worse. I’ve tried to answer you back three times and got rebuffed. I guess the truth and common sense must be really painful.
onthemark
“a provocative plea for gays to … embrace the Second Amendment rather than hope for its amendment”
Amending the Amendment would be ideal IMO but is, fortunately, not a must.
Before Heller v. DC (2008), a 5 to 4 decision, the Second Amendment’s “militia” language was always taken into account. Suddenly there is an individual “right” to bear arms, uninfringed etc., by any random individual wacko, that simply didn’t exist from 1791 to 2008, no matter what the gun lobby claims.
The majority opinion in Heller was written by – oh, many of you can guess – the late Mr. Scalia. Yet another reason to focus on who will be making Supreme Court appointments!
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
They deleted a post of mine last week. Poster Kangol responded to my post. Mine was deleted, his remains.
It’s sad that a gay entertainment/political site censors and deletes both content and posters for political reasons.
GC1985
@onthemark: Damn right. And I’m sure Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would have something to say about it. Trump’s rapidly collapsing ratings show there is hope.
The right wingers on here are still spreading their delusional fear. The article written by Queerty about “gun sales skyrocketing” was improper and inaccurate. There is no such evidence to substantiate it. So they deleted the article. Get over it.
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: I don’t know if you and others are aware of this but the NYPost and the NYDailynews have eliminated their comment sections. Thats because they do not support the presumed nominee of the GOP but the majority of their readers do. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Bob LaBlah
@onthemark: “Amending the Amendment would be ideal IMO but is, fortunately, not a must.”
Are you telling me you have not considered that by doing that the terrorist would have won? We have a frontier mentality here in Ok mixed in with a some-what big city mindset. Their is no way we are going to sit back and watch that happen. The rural part in us wins out the majority of the time down here. We have been trying to bring Terry Nichols to justice for the last twenty-one years but the powers that be will no allow ol’ Tim’s companion to join him. But we’re patient. We’ll get him sooner or later.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
Censorship is wrong whoever does it. It is not even liberal to censor dissenting speech; it is leftist Marxism.
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Google have all been caught recently censoring and removing posts and suspending/banning writers and material they don’t like because of its conservative position.
It’s un-American and it is disgusting.
Daniel-Reader
Rural residents – LGBT or Heterosexual – understand that the police are far away – making response times rather long – so having weapons to defend one’s self, property, and family is very important. This however does not mean that gun control over semi-automatic weapons cannot take place or that rural residents do not understand why such overkill weapons should be banned. But any claim that guns do not save lives so all guns should be banned is absurd to anyone from a rural background.
Giancarlo86
@GC1985: You are a bitter troll who fetishizes Nazis and pedophiles and gets off being “spanked” by other commentators here. Why not post this garbage under your own real identity instead of pretending to be me with your fake accounts? You are pathetic. Get a life.
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: Believe it or not in 2006 Pat Buchanan wrote a book titled “Where the Right Went Wrong.” I read it this past winter when I saw what was going to obviously happen in the GOP. He said that the repercussions of that foolish invasion were going to be felt for generations and he sure as hell didn’t lie either.
In regards to censorship, this is only the beginning. With the news media reduced to nothing more than entertainment and foolish, biased reporting on the right and left we have already been conquered but don’t realize it (or should I say the majority don’t). CBS, MSNBC, Fox News….they are ALL nothing more than jokes. It is appalling how a group of gay men got together…….lets just say that list you posted prove their are other views in our community but they too are going to be censored because a “few” might be offended. I ask you, does it ever end or does it have ANY boundaries? This new craziness that has taken over America is what I am talking about.
ParisHiltonsBadEye
He’s cute, I love his accent
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https://youtu.be/FhXb2xUCuto
gayhope1990
Unfortunately the freedom of speech and to disagree with anyone is jeopardized now in the USA like in Europe.Just read pinknews.
The censorship is their belief because the lefties hate different points of views.But guns is a bad idea,more guns means more deaths
Lookyloo
I’m all for gay folk starting to get aggressive about openly carrying guns – because it’ll cause the gunnuts to question their superiority-slanted agenda just like when Ronald Reagan changed his stance and cracked down on guns when black people started open-carry-rabblerousing when he was Governor of California.
And as for the ‘Pink Pistols’ – what a sad bunch of stereotype-pushers.
Note they’re not the Gay-Gunners or the Homo-Holster-Havers.. Nope. They’re a male started group who are all about the color pink.. ya know.. because they’re gay men and gay men are just like little girls in the binary gender-approved world of the straight bigots the Pink Pistols so sadly want approval from.
And, yes, I know the PPs claim to use the pink triangle from Nazi-dom as reference but that’s a b.s. situation. Jews don’t embrace the yellow star Nazis gave them – but some gays embrace the sub-human moniker and the “please like me because I accept I’m less-than” status many in power give us – similar to how the Log Cabin Republicans grovel to to the GOP… but the rightwing bigots will never accept us.. they’ll only use us.
And the Pink Pistols are fools dancing for the bigots-against-them.
Aximill
What’s wrong with all you anti-gun people? It is so easy to pack heat all and be vigilant all the time. Sitting outside the café, sippin some coffee with pals? Damn right I’m ready to blow some sketchy person away. There’s no training needed to tell the difference of bullets being shot on a movie screen versus actual bullets in the theater, plus the fact I am super hyper focused on my surroundings while watching a movie. My husband’s pre-K students know not to touch his gun, and instead to “duck n cover” at the slightest boom (makes for interesting times during thunder storms).
onthemark
@Bob LaBlah: I’m aware that gay people do live in OK, to use your example. If for some reason I had to live in OK, yeah I might want a gun. (One, not ten like most of you guys seem to have?) I’d still favor bringing back the assault weapon ban, and closing the gun show loophole, and want the background checks Congress is discussing now.
If the gun lobby had THEIR way, however, they’d get rid of the gun laws my very low-crime state has. They want to stretch the badly-written current Second Amendment as far as they can. F*ck that.
GC1985
@Giancarlo86: You are a loser who can’t come up with your own name. Please try harder troll. You are failing miserably.
GC1985
@ParisHiltonsBadEye: Small dick syndrome.
GC1985
@Aximill: What is wrong with you gun nuts who can’t even accept the slightest bit of gun control? A new poll has gun control spiking sharply up. Get over yourselves and accept the will of the people.
onthemark
@GC1985: Aximill is being sarcastic.
Mo Bro
Such rubbish.
EVERYONE knows that “gun-free zone” signs and “coexist” bumper stickers repel evil.
Mo Bro
@Alistair Wiseman: I hope the next chapter to open is in Orlando.
GC1985
@onthemark: I see lol. I guess I missed that one lol.
GC1985
@Mo Bro: And guns certainly do a good job a repelling violence don’t they? *yawn*
Mo Bro
@GC1985: They worked on taking down Omar Mateen, didn’t they?
ParisHiltonsBadEye
@GC1985: Just handle a firearm with the same care and respect you would handle a big dick and you’ll be fine. Or Not.
Stilinski26
@gayhope1990: I read that A Gay magazine facebook page called Gaystream was suspended by Facebook because they published an article criticizing Islam.
Paco
Because more guns in a crowded nightclub would have solved everything. How many “good guy” bullets would have taken out some innocents?
GC1985
@Mo Bro: In the hands of law enforcement and not gun nuts.
@Paco: Bullseye… Not literally speaking. If some had their here a hundred could have died.
Take Russia sending a bunch of untrained officers into the attack of the theater several years ago… Untrained idiots with guns will end up shooting civilians in the crossfire!
GC1985
It is sad a tragedy had to occur to get more people on board with proper gun control laws. Various polls now put it at a vast support for democrat backed reform.
Tobi
@GC1985: Yeah, if only you’d listened to Piers Morgan, huh?!
gayhope1990
Hey another attack happened in a gay bar in Mexico according to pinknews
Bob LaBlah
I appreciate your response but once AGAIN my comments are blocked but the majority of you really made my day. I enjoyed the laugh. Take care and remember to be ready to run at the drop of a hat. Always maintain gay tradition. Or should I say just do things the Queerty way. And when you go into a club be sure to stand by the exit so you can be the first out the door.
Bob LaBlah
@onthemark: “(One, not ten like most of you guys seem to have?)”
That was funny, city boy. But I’ll have you know that this queen (me) stopped at four, thank you very much. lol
The damn censoring on this site has gotten downright REDICKulous. I mean you can’t say damn near ANYTHING anymore without some queen from the city finding it offensive. And I’m not laughing about it either.
Alistair Wiseman
@Stilinski26:
That is how the Left operates; if they don’t like what you have to say, they do what they can to shut down free and open speech.
Not only Facebook, but Reddit, Google and Twitter have all recently been caught engaging in censorship of conservative voices. After all, it is an election year!
GC1985
@Tobi: Nobody cares what you have to say. You’re the one who defended rape.
@Alistair Wiseman: Posting inaccurate articles on a private website can be grounds for removal. Conservative “voices” are calling for extreme violence and deserve to be silenced.
Enjoy your plummeting polls!
Alistair Wiseman
While President Obama and Democrats scheme to deny gays the ability to defend themselves, shooting clubs in Houston and Las Vegas are offering free firearm courses to gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities at risk of violence.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/06/houston-shooting-range-offers-free-concealed-carry-courses-to-members-of-lgbtq-community/
http://www.ktnv.com/news/local-group-offers-lgbt-nightclub-workers-free-gun-classes
Giancarlo86
PROVEN LIAR >>>>>> @GC1985: <<<<<< PROVEN LIAR
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: Free firearm courses are a goof way to get yourself in danger. Guns arent the answer and will not protect you. Countries that either ban or heavily restrict firearms have vastly lower levels of shootings and gun related crimes. Obama is seeing his approval rating skyrocket. You must be pissed off things are not going your way.
@Giancarlo86: Proven imbecile fake account!
Giancarlo86
@GC1985: You lied about being me. You lied about living in Florida. You lied about being Ruby Rue @reubenana. You lie and lie and lie.
GC1985
@Giancarlo86: Little sh*t keeps copying and pasting the same trash everywhere. Reported for spamming!
Tobi
@GC1985: No @Giancarlo86 is just doing a public service and reporting the facts.
onthemark
@Bob LaBlah: “But I’ll have you know that this queen (me) stopped at four, thank you very much. lol”
You can shoot four guns at the same time? Very impressive, Annie Oakley!
But you must NEVER leave home, right? I’ve seen that show “I (Almost) Got Away With It” where the guys break out of prison and the first thing they always do is break into a house in Yokelville and look for the guns to steal. And there are ALWAYS guns to steal! Always. Seems to defeat the whole “protection” argument, unless you NEVER leave home?
MyDadPulledOut
Gays are brainwashed, even more than the general population. Before the Orlando massacre, I asked a friend if they wanted to come with me to the Los Angeles shooting range, they were literally horrified. One said that they never want to even touch a gun. Really sad.
FeRDNYC
#RepealThe2nd