'Straight pride parade' may actually come to Boston

[struggle4progress]

By Alex Horton June 28

... The city of Boston has approved the permit application and route for the parade, slated for Aug. 31 ...

The organizers, Super Happy Fun America (slogan: “It’s great to be straight”), have ties to the far-right group Resist Marxism, prompting concern the march could descend into violent chaos. An organizer of the march, Mark Sahady, was present at one event in Portland last year that was declared a riot ...

The group has insisted the parade was launched as a serious endeavor aimed at correcting injustice. It has appointed far-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos as the parade’s grand marshal. Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor, was permanently banned from Twitter in 2016 for inciting waves of racist abuse campaigns against actress/comedian Leslie Jones. He was also barred from Facebook last month ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/06/28/it-started-trolling-straight-pride-parade-may-actually-be-coming-boston/?utm_term=.2ccaf0f0c443&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[mcar]

1. Super Happy Fun America?

[ProudLib72]

7. That sounds like a gay pride event to me!

Not some tiki torch bearing incels dressed in khaki shouting nastiness.

[mcar]

9. Sure does

[Volaris]

14. Yep and Mark Shady...

Ya, THIS is legit lol...

Not that I sorta care...if you can pass muster with city hall,who gives a shit honestly what you wanna march down the street for...all I'm sayin is, if the gay-fearing, self-hating, Secretly Gay and In Denial wannabe Nazis wanna have themselves a public display of how TOTALLY NOT GAY they are, who the fuck is little ol me to tell them they CANT??!

[hlthe2b]

2. Go pay $$$$$ to attend Trump's July 4th takeover...

Do the city of Boston a one day favor at least.

[Tech]

3. Should be straight asshole pride parade.

I identify as straight and female (I think that is how I say it said now) and I identify them as assholes.

In the sophisticated 70's when you had to have a dealer, it was said " always forward never straight". I still enjoy forward thinkers and doers more. No pride needed being straight, we have advantages.

[msongs]

4. closet case parade. wanna bet it will overwhelmingly white and male? nt

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Is this by chance the parade route?

The proverbial long walk off short pier.

[smirkymonkey]

6. I'm all for that!

I am embarrassed to be a Bostonian. Who gave them a permit for this? This is nothing other than a hate rally disguised as a "straight pride parade". It's bullshit. I hope to hell their is an opposition rally, because I will be there.

[hughee99]

12. Who gave them the permit for this?

The same people that say they don't factor political opinions in their decision to issue permits. Do you think they should start doing that?

[smirkymonkey]

13. No idea. This does not sound like many of the Boston leaders that I know.

I really don't know how they got away with this.

[hughee99]

18. They filled out enough of the paperwork correctly and none of the

People required to sign off on this wanted to stick their neck out to give the organizers what they really wanted (which was the denial). The organizers don’t want a parade, they wanted the Boston leaders to tell them they can’t have one. They didn’t get it (yet), but they still might.

[Sgent]

15. There's a very limited

amount you can do as a city to legally prevent a peaceful march. It cuts both ways -- but on the good side Starkville, MS lost a federal case last year after denying a gay pride parade permit.

[NutmegYankee]

17. The permit is not for the speech; the permit is for using the roads for marching and not driving.

As such, no city can pick and choose to issue a permit based on the content of the speech. It’s illegal.

[struggle4progress]

11. +!

[ProudLib72]

8. Boring! I say give them an hour for their event and make them stick to a time schedule

Two dozen assholes walking deserted streets would be fine for an hour. Then regular activities resume. They just want to be provocational. Don't engage and they will learn their lesson. NOBODY IS INTERESTED!

[UniteFightBack]

16. Like Lynyrd Skynyrd said...YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. nt

[WillowTree]

10. Ignore.......Ignore.......Ignore.......