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Dozens attend 'Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho (www.ktvb.com)

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BOISE, Idaho — A minor confrontation broke out at the controversial "Hetero Awesome Fest" on Saturday when a protester took the stage and began singing a pro-LGBTQ+ song before being removed.

According to several livestreams of the event, including those from Old Street Saloon, the incident occurred during the two-day festival held on June 20-21 in Cecil D. Andrus Park, directly across from the Idaho State Capitol. Mark Fitzpatrick, owner of the Old State Saloon and organizer of the event, rushed the stage and took the microphone from the man after about a minute of singing.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To start with your first sentence is stupid and it goes downhill from there. Pride moth exists as a response to being silenced and prosecuted for centuries. Straight people don't need an event to show they deserve to exist because they already run the show and having an event to celebrate as a counter to pride month is just rubbing in historical oppression. Crashing each other's events is nowhere near the same thing due to context.

A hetero celebration event during pride month is like having a confederate celebration on Juneteenth.

That is why you are being downvoted, and nobody else explained because odds are you won't understand and just dig your heels in deeper.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I think my viewpoint is akin to the Nazi bar analogy. I don't want to drink at a Nazi bar, but I'm glad the Nazi bar exists, because it gives the Nazis somewhere to go that's isolated and away from everyone else. I'd rather these people hold their own event and congregate there than go protest at a pride parade or whatever else they might be doing, and I don't think 'kicking the hornet's nest' by trying to disrupt them is really helping anyone. Case in point, I'd never heard about them before, and wouldn't have if this article hadn't been written, which it wouldn't have been if nobody had crashed the event.

[-] tfm@europe.pub 16 points 1 month ago

I'm glad the Nazi bar exists, because it gives the Nazis somewhere to go that's isolated and away from everyone else.

You never EVER give hateful ideologies room to breathe and organize. It spreads like a virus if you don't kill it on the spot.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago

WTF, the Nazi bar analogy wasn't supposed to be in support of the creation of Nazi bars. Are you okay? Did you recently hit your head? What the fuck have you been smoking?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I don’t want to drink at a Nazi bar, but I’m glad the Nazi bar exists, because it gives the Nazis somewhere to go that’s isolated and away from everyone else.

What a terrible opinion to have.

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