Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Adam Kokesh kicked off Straight Pride Parade

The hotly debated Straight Pride Parade was held in Boston on Saturday, as a group of marchers walked to City Hall surrounded by hundreds of protesters.

The organizers of the march, part of Super Happy Fun America, have said that the event is inclusive for all and is not anti-gay. The group advocates for straight people, which president and parade organizer John Hugo has called the “oppressed majority.” The parade sparked controversy when it was approved by the City of Boston in June.

The parade began at Copley Square, where marchers walked along the Trump Unity Bridge, which carried Milo Yiannopoulos, the parade’s grand marshal and a gay former Breitbart journalist who has been banned from Facebook and Twitter for hate speech. Yiannopoulos, who is British, hung a Trump 2020 banner from the side of the float.

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... Kokesh opened his speech by warning the crowd that one of his staff members had told him he would get kicked off the stage for what he had written.

“I would thank you all for being here, but I would rather thank the people who were smart enough to stay home today as opposed to participating in this ridiculous culture war,” Kokesh said. “This embarrassing American spectacle of Trumpian proportions.”

The people who “run the system” and the police are the real enemies, the 37-year-old continued, not the protesters. He was met with boos and calls from the audience to get him off the stage as Samson Racioppi, an organizer, told him to wrap it up. Hugo lunged for his microphone, pulling it out of his hand before Kokesh got it back and continued to talk.

“This is the Straight Pride rally, and you’re not going to let me finish?” Kokesh asked.

Some audience members yelled out, “free speech,” and Racioppi said he would give Kokesh one more minute—Kokesh objected, saying he had been told he would have 20 minutes on the stage and he was way under time. Shortly after, the microphone’s audio was cut and Kokesh left the stage.

“It’s free speech, but if people don’t like it, they don’t have to cheer for him. And they were booing him. He was kind of killing the buzz here,” Hugo said in an interview with The Heights after the speakers finished. “It was a real happy day, everyone was having a good time, and then he got on there and he was a real buzzkill.

“And nobody wanted to hear the things he was saying. And he was kind of a jerk if you ask me. And he wouldn’t give up the mike. He kept pulling the mike away and then he kept talking.”

http://bcheights.com/2019/09/01/paraders-at-straight-pride-met-with-protest/

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Adam Kokesh kicked off Straight Pride Parade

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Adam Kokesh kicked off Straight Pride Parade

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