Gay Republicans joined armed extremists to protest outside a drag show in Texas

The Texas Log Cabin Republicans’ San Antonio chapter joined armed extremists to protest outside a drag show featuring queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race. The organizing group, This Is Texas Freedom Force, has been labeled an “extremist militia group” by the FBI.

The groups joined with religious right activists to denounce the show as immoral and inappropriate for children. The show, “A Drag Queen Christmas,” contains one reference to alcohol; there is no nudity or sexual references.

The small group of extremists was met with a large crowd of approximately 150 counterprotesters. Both groups came armed.

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Officers kept the two sides separated and guarded the venue’s doors. While protestors occasionally stepped into the street to heckle the opposing side, no arrests were made. One anti-LGBTQ+ militia member was told to leave after he tried to instigate a confrontation; he complied and left the area.

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The conservative protestors could be heard shouting “pedophile” and “groomer” at the people attending the drag show, holding signs that said “SODOM & GOMORRAH” and that accused LGBTQ+ people of seeing children as “prey.”

Counterprotestors shouted back “The groomers are in your churches!”

In a development which will surprise exactly 0 people, the local Log Cabin Republicans chapter has joined the anti-drag show protest outside the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio. pic.twitter.com/DAVZwBE6Pj

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