One counter-protester said the anti-LGBTQ+ group needed to be “told that what they have to say is not welcome here”. (YouTube/KHOU 11)
Activists blared ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” to drown out a crowd of anti-LGBTQ+ protesters outside a drag show.
Over 100 people gathered outside of Hamburger Mary’s, an LGBTQ-friendly restaurant in downtown Houston, Texas, to counter a group of demonstrators who targeted a drag brunch on Sunday (10 July), the Houston Chronicle reported.
The “dozen or so” anti-LGBTQ+ protesters were part of Protect Texas Kids, a newly-formed organisation that claims it is “protecting kids from the toxic, indoctrinating agenda of the left”.
After the group’s demonstration started, a small group of men – some of whom were wearing Nazi regalia – joined the anti-LGBTQ+ protestors, according to the Houston Chronicle. The men reportedly shouted homophobic slurs and Nazi slogans at the counterprotestors.
But the small group was quickly overpowered as the Screwston Anti-Fascist Committee – which organised the…
