For three days this week, a gaggle of antigay Christian extremists have been tormenting students at the University of California Riverside by marching around campus with signs that say “Homo sex is sin” and “Ask me why you deserve hell” and shouting misogynistic things at female students.
Their reason for being there is unclear, but that’s really not the point here. The point is that yesterday, things came to a head when a group of students decided they had had enough and came together to challenge the hate-mongering rabble rousers.
One of the students was a man named Deonté Lee. Rather than yelling back at the people who were yelling at him, Deonté took things up a notch… by voguing at them. The homophobes didn’t quite know what to make of the display and so they just watched, dumbfounded.
Lucky of us, fellow student Alyssa Elizabeth whipped out her phone and recorded it. In a Facebook post, she writes:
How about we take this to the next level?
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Today is the 3rd day these so called “Christians” have been on campus. They claim to be spreading the word of God, but they are only spreading hate. One of them told a girl that she will (and deserves to) be raped and that when it happens, he will fund her rapist’s defense fund. I was told that I’m immodest because I was wearing leggings, a tank top, and a jacket (which honestly didn’t hurt me at all considering I’ve been dress coded all throughout high school and am used to hearing that). These people were only preaching hatred, we were told that we are sinners for loving gay people (and then one of them continued to compare homosexuality to cocaine and alcoholism). Normally, I don’t pay attention to these people, because that’s what they want. But today was different. I stood up for what I believe in, and so did all of the other UCR students who witnessed this. Atheists, Christians, Muslims and so many other religions and cultures came together today to fight this hatred with love and a fantastic sense of humor.
(P.S. Deonté Lee you made my day with your dancing thank you so much.)
Check out the video below…
KaiserVonScheiss
It’s not as bad as what some students might do. Many get violent when they hear ideas they don’t like. These guys just seemed to be uttering disagreements.
We had similar people come on my campus when I was in college. A female student was arrested for assaulting him.
But my advice from then remains the same: ignore them. Their ideas sound crazy enough without trying to refute them. Also, shutting them down makes them the victim. Don’t make these crazy people into victims.
ChrisK
You like talking to yourself?
DCguy
Do you notice what one of “Mo Bros” other screenames did here?
The article is about hateful bigots harassing students, and what he did was try to change the subject and insinuating that students are the bullies when they hear things they “Don’t Like”.
That is the right wing’s game. They want to pretend that bigotry, racism, and treating people like 2nd class citizens are all just “Political Differences”.
If you really don’t like what these people are doing it’s weird that you set up your comment to frame the students as the violent ones, and the bigotry as “Opinions they don’t like.”
Mo Bro
These fire-and-brimstone quacks are every bit as ludicrous and ineffective as the anti-free-speech-building-burners at Berkeley were.
Can we all just agree that “protesters” are mostly attention-starved nobodies?
ChrisK
You like talking to yourself?
niles
Actually, those poor wretched souls who troll anonymous comments sections so they can make contrary statements designed rile people up are the true nobodies.
DCguy
And here is the other shoe. Once again, the right wing trolls are desperate to not just take the attention off of the actual posting, but to draw an equivalence. “Gee, those women marching for equality are JUST as bad as these bigots harassing students.”
It’s like Putin gave you all the same little instruction manual. Oh wait, you’re all one person with different screenames, I forgot.
Roan
Interesting video, did I miss the “voguing” part?
Xzamilloh
Right? I was waiting for duck walks and death drops. All I got was a couple of spins and inner turmoil at how attractive I found that anti-gay idiot.
Roan
Oh FFS, I just saw the guy with the no porn symbol and scripture written on his crotch.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
No it didn’t “shut down” anything…nor was it “the best EVAH respose to” etc etc etc..just more Buzzfeedification BS. Why always the breathless superlatives? Boggles the imagination to think what you’d say if one of these people had an ACTUAL witty or intelligent and genuinely effective response to these otherwise easily ignored idiots. But no just more dumbed down lowest common denominator narcissistic attention seeking elevated to “activism” by lazy interns hampering the effective opposition to the Right.
captainburrito
Some of them are probably just lonely and want some interaction.
fur_hunter
Is it possible that this group is a spin-off from the Westboro Baptist Church Crazies? The signage and comments are right out of what you would see from Westboro. And they call themselves…..’Christians’. Yeah……Sure……..Believe it.
DCguy
No, what is happening is that the rest of the Republican Party, thanks to right wing media is moving to where the Westboro Baptist Church was.
Kangol
Seriously, there was way more Christofascist enema-bag there and far too little fierce voguery, so why build the video up as something it wasn’t? A brief clip of the anti-feminist wacko would have been enough. Come on, Queerty, stop with the clickbate crapola.
Ksb1978
The white gays in these comments never disappoint. Young black man does a few dance moves in protest against the homophobes and y’all call him the lowest common denominator. Some of y’all even said one of the bigots is hot( y’all take a white bigot of our fellow queer people of color anyways). Funny how y’all didn’t say the same to the queer folks who had dance parties as protests not too long ago, but talk down about the young man dancing in this video.?
JB
Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Why are these religious zealots allowed to “preach” on a state-supported university campus?
Tête Carrée
Just keep walking, nothing to see here.