It was an ominous start to Pride month in a year that has seen increasingly vitriolic attacks on LGBTQ rights across the country, and the Dallas protest followed the cancellation of another Pride event in Indiana featuring drag performers after conservatives targeted it online.
'It's going to be so kek when we take away all your rights,' one protester associated with the white Christian nationalist America First/groyper movement told a counterprotester who was defending the event, using movement slang that roughly means 'lol.' In response, hard-right YouTuber and protest leader John Doyle, who was standing nearby, added with a smirk, 'Every single one of them.' Misster hosted a family-friendly 'drag queen brunch' advertised with the tongue-in-cheek slogan, 'Drag Your Kids to Pride.' The event was intended to be light-hearted, featuring musical chairs, mocktails and a chance for kids to vogue alongside the performers.īut before the doors had even opened, the whole thing turned ugly, as dozens of right-wing protesters showed up on the sidewalk outside, recording attendees, calling them 'disgusting' 'groomers' or 'faggots' who wanted 'to cut the dicks off of little boys' and even following and heckling both performers and attending families as they walked back to their cars.
On Saturday morning in the Dallas 'gayborhood' of Cedar Springs, an LGBTQ bar called Mr.
