With today being the last day of the traditional Gay Pride Month celebration, a gay Trump supporter has found a way to anger Blacks, gays, and Black gays.
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The brouhaha all began when gay Trump supporter Chadwick Moore went public with remarks against Juneteenth, saying the African-American celebration of the end of slavery is overkill and takes away from June being Gay Pride Month.
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“I’m sorry, blacks, but you already have a month,” Moore tweeted, referring to Black History Month, which is in February.
“Juneteenth isn’t a thing,” he continued. “Don’t colonize our month as well. thanks. Signed, the gays!”
I’m sorry, blacks, but you already have a month. Juneteenth isn’t a thing. Don’t colonize our month as well. thanks. Signed, the gays.
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 20, 2020
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Well, the ignorant and insensitive tweet from the gay Trump supporter went viral, prompting a sea of critical responses.
Many took to Twitter to enlighten Moore that Juneteenth was celebrated for more than a century before the Stonewall Riots and the first Gay Pride march. They also schooled him with the knowledge that the implication of a celebration of Black freedom taking away from celebrating LGBTQ Pride is not only racist, but dumb.
However, most responses simply lit into Moore with a heat he probably never saw coming.
1. dont call us blacks
2. stop generalizing “the gays” as we all have different beliefs
3. dont compare black people to colonizers
4. our month is february, the shortest month of the year
5. we are still fighting for justice
6. dont call us blacks— 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒 💕 NANO DAY (@swordsafety) June 20, 2020
Who are you? Regardless, this tweet is trash and obviously reflects the trash that tweeted it. You don’t speak for the gay community! We don’t claim you!
— Trinity The Tuck (@TrinityTheTuck) June 20, 2020
maybe don’t pretend you speak for the LGBTQ+ community when you’re just racist as hell. queer people of color are the foundation of the gay liberation movement
— ali lawrence 🌹 (@a_lawrence42) June 20, 2020
Filing a class action suit on behalf of all the gays whose signatures you forged on this mess
— Chris Stedman (@ChrisDStedman) June 20, 2020
Interestingly, the gay Trump supporter — who refers to himself as a “Right-wing bias hack with zero credibility” — only took issue with a Black celebration. Never once did he go after fathers for having a day in June, veterans for honoring the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II (in June’s D-Day), or the planet Earth for scheduling Summer Solstice in June.
A gay Trump supporter makes no sense. I am glad he got flamed on the internet for being ignorant.