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This is why everyone shouold avail themselves of the Second Amendment. It helps keep things nice and calm, even when facing Nazis. I really like the guys throwing the Nazi salute and the flag they had.
This is why everyone shouold avail themselves of the Second Amendment. It helps keep things nice and calm, even when facing Nazis. I really like the guys throwing the Nazi salute and the flag they had.
Edited for copyright compliance-meisterNeo-Nazis, leftist gun groups face off during protest at Grand Prairie drag show
Story by Michael Williams, The Dallas Morning News • Yesterday 12:54 PM
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GRAND PRAIRIE — A protest at an all-ages drag show devolved into a face-off between neo-Nazis and leftist gun groups on Saturday — the latest and most intense confrontation over the performances which have become a flashpoint in the culture war on LGBTQ rights.
Kelly Neidert of Protect Texas Kids speaks with a right-wing protester during a protest she helped organize outside an all-ages drag show at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie on Saturday.© Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News/TNS
The rally at the Texas Trust CU Theatre was organized by Protect Texas Kids in response to Murray and Peter Present A Drag Queen Christmas, a holiday-themed show featuring performances by alumni from “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The stop in Grand Prairie was part of a nationwide tour which also included shows in San Antonio, Austin and Corpus Christi.
Protect Texas Kids, which was founded by University of North Texas alumna Kelly Neidert, seeks to ban children from viewing the performances. Over the past six months, the organization has staged protests outside drag shows in Dallas, Arlington and Roanoke. They were joined at Saturday’s protest by two religious organizations: the Christian nationalist New Columbia Movement and the neo-fascist American Nationalist Initiative.
The right-wing groups were opposed by a coalition of counterprotesters, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and heavily armed members of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, who were openly carrying rifles that they said were intended to protect the show and those in attendance.
Both sides started rallying on the sidewalk in front of the theater about 2 1/2 hours before the show’s 8 p.m. start. The leftists, dressed in black-bloc-style clothing, blared Christmas music and sirens over loudspeakers to drown out chants from the right-wing groups.
Armed leftists (left) oppose right-wing protesters outside an all-ages drag show at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie on Saturday.© Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News/TNS
Justin Williams, of Fort Worth, said he has been going to drag shows since he was 16. He said the performances “bring people together.”
“It brings joy, and allows people to be unapologetically themselves,” he said.
Williams said he felt somewhat conflicted by the show of support for the show. “I’m grateful on some level there are people willing to do that — but it seems confrontational. It doesn’t make me more comfortable,” he said.
Grand Prairie police reported no arrests or citations during Saturday’s protest.
As the protest kicked off, Neidert said she was impressed by the turnout on her side. But she said she had some worries about a potential appearance from ultra-extreme groups she said she didn’t invite.
Armed leftists and members of The Party for Socialism and Liberation carry signs supporting the LGBTQ community as they oppose several right-wing groups outside an all-ages drag show at Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie on Saturday.© Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News/TNS
“The one group that I’m really concerned about is the neo-Nazi group,” Neidert told The Dallas Morning News about an hour into the protest. “But aside from that, I think that everyone I’ve seen has been fairly peaceful.”
Fewer than 30 minutes later, the neo-Nazi group appeared.
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