More glory showers itself upon progressive Burlington, Vermont. It seems they had a Pride parade last weekend (did everyone show their monkey-pox vaccine passport?) at which a 74-year-old gay man was harassed, beaten, and “robbed.”
Fred Sargeant, the victim of the assault, was at Stonewall and founded the first pride march in NYC (1970), according to the reporting we’ve linked. But he has an unpopular opinion about transgederism and the community that he felt needed to be expressed.
“…I went to Pride to protest their misogyny, homophobia, exclusionary policies and divisiveness. I was met by screaming, multiple assaults, ageist comments, shoving, slaps to the back of my head, pouring coffee on me and repeated attempts to steal my signs.”
And the intolerant trans-crowd was true to their nature.
Fred Sergeant, a 74-year-old gay rights pioneer who was at the Stonewall riots, & who co-founded the first pride march in NYC, was beaten & robbed by far-left queer & trans activists at the pride event in Burlington, Vt. on Sunday. He held a sign critical of trans ideology. pic.twitter.com/Twyx4fyZeX
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 20, 2022
Fred, we know some folks who have had similar engagements with these folks.
Sargeant was also seen with a sign that said “gay not queer.” Sergeant has criticized the group that put on the parade, the Pride Center of Vermont, for calling the word gay “erasure of the breadth of sexual orientations and gender identities within the LGBTQ+ umbrella.”
Is this a good time to remind everyone that the B means bi-sexual? Two sexes. That’s where the umbrella semantically and biologically ends. Yours should be called the LGT^#~∞ movement.
Crap, that’s not going to encourage you to change the official flag again, is it, ‘cuz that’s getting out of hand.
And yes, standing up against that agenda is necessary (so, thanks for that, Fred) but is likely to get you – as he discovered – some unwanted attention. As you may know, no one likes their choices challenged and no one pushes back quite like the “Tolerant™” (that’s the other thing they think the “T” means).
Don’t judge me for my ideas about human sexuality, but if you disagree with mine, we’ll beat you and silence you.
If Fred was 44, this might have looked a bit different. A circle of bruised and busted gender queers whining at the feet of a “community” legend. It might still happen. The feud between the LGB and the TQ^#~ ∞ crowd keeps escalating.
“We are appalled by the news that Fred Sargeant — Stonewall veteran and co-founder of Pride — has been beaten and robbed at Burlington Pride, by attendees who take for granted the rights he fought for decades ago,” LGB Alliance, an organization that defends lesbian, gay and bisexual rights “as recognized by biological sex,” said on Twitter of the incident. “We send love and solidarity to Fred and wish him a swift recovery,” the organization continued.
And the feminists aren’t keen on the thing if it comes with that swing. Women are born women, they say. And as biology does seem to matter in sports, as proven by men posing as women in sports, a growing segment of middle America has been forced to look at a problem they’ve been hoping to avoid. The way you don’t make eye contact in the elevator or the urinal. But, here it is, staring at you, daring you to disagree.
What!
The Battle of Burlington (not Bennington) exposes the stark (see what I did there) divide on Pride. A guy who founded the damn things 52 years ago gets smacked around at one.
When l left you, I was but the learner …
He’s still gay, just the wrong sort, so no Pride for him, I guess. That’ll happen if you let the kids run things for long enough or, as is more likely the case, forget that Democrats weren’t really your allies. They just used you, and you’ve worn that usefulness out. They have new friends that are young and angry just the way they like them.
But they’ll wear out their usefulness too if they haven’t killed themselves before that.
HT | Daily Caller
