And So It Begins

It is going to be a long hot summer, it is going to summer in the city and sadly this I think is only the beginning. We have to keep level head and avoid being goaded in to violence. We have to avoid that trap.

Seattle police arrest 23 during anti-trans rally clashes in LGBTQ+ neighborhood

Far-right Christian group Mayday USA held a rally in a queer part of town. It didn't go well.

The Advocate

By Christopher Wiggins

May 27 2025

A Washington far-right Christian rally in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park—a space long considered sacred ground for the city’s LGBTQ+ community—ended in violence and 23 arrests on Saturday. The rally, organized by Spokane-based Mayday USA as part of its national #DontMessWithOurKids tour, was met by a massive counterprotest denouncing its anti-trans and anti-abortion rhetoric.

Seattle police said they arrested 22 adults for assault and obstruction and one juvenile for obstruction after clashes erupted between the two groups. According to the Seattle Police Department’s official blotter, officers initially responded around 1:30 p.m. PDT after witnessing protesters throwing objects. Police reported being assaulted while making arrests and deployed pepper spray during further confrontations. Troopers from the Washington State Patrol arrived later in the afternoon to assist. One officer was hospitalized and released.

I'm worried that Trump will use this as an excuse to bring in troops!

The right-wing New York Post wrote...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Tuesday he had requested an investigation into allegations of “targeted violence” against religious groups after an evangelical conservative group held a rally at Seattle City Hall in response to the mayor blaming Christians for igniting a weekend demonstration that turned violent.

“We have asked our team to fully investigate allegations of targeted violence against religious groups at the Seattle concert. Freedom of religion isn’t a suggestion,” Bongino wrote on X.

The Christians’ “Rattle in Seattle” demonstration began at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the 4th Avenue steps of City Hall in downtown Seattle, where counter-protesters were also present, according to Fox 13.

I worry that Trump will declare a "state of insurrection" and use to declare marshal law.

What we need is a little like what happened during the trail of the murders of Mathew Shepard when the Westboro Baptist Church showed with there hate. The angels came... The Discovery Channel's Investigators wrote,

The anti-LGBTQ Westboro Baptist Church protested Matthew's funeral

Worse, the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) entered the picture, adding to the Shepards' anguish and overall tensions.

The WBC protested outside Shepard’s funeral, shouting coarse rhetoric and waving picket signs with derogatory messages.

Later, the WBC kept up their demonstrations during legal proceedings against Shepard’s killers, but they were counter-protested by “Matthew’s Angels.” The group, founded by Shepard’s friend Romaine Patterson, wore angel costumes with broad white wings that they used to obscure the WBC’s signs from public view.

In West Hartford last November a rally was held and the haters were out chanting their hate, but the angels were out to hide the protesters.

We have to make sure that they come after us and we are not goaded in to violence to bring the storm troopers.

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And down in Florida...

Federal judge denies Naples' emergency motion to prevent outdoor drag show at Pridefest

WBBH/WZVN

May 28, 2025

A U.S. federal judge has denied the city of Naples' emergency motion to stay a preliminary injunction Tuesday that will allow Naples Pride's Pridefest drag show to take place outdoors.

"All four stay factors lean against granting the requested stay. Therefore, Defendants’ motion for a stay pending appeal is denied," according to the judge in the official opinion and order.

A federal judge granted the preliminary injunction on May 12 in the lawsuit Naples Pride filed against the city and the Naples Police Department. That allows for the drag show to happen outdoors instead of indoors.

The city of Naples filed the notice of appeal and emergency motion to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal last week. Naples Pride then filed an expedited response in opposition.

On Tuesday, the federal judge denied the city's emergency motion to stay.

And NBC Miami reported 

Steele said he was convinced a preliminary injunction “was justified as to the location and age restrictions after determining that Cambier … is a traditional public forum, where speech receives the highest protection. The court also found that even if Cambier Park became a limited public forum, the location and age restrictions would violate the First Amendment because they are neither content nor viewpoint neutral.”

Steele’s rulings came as a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month separately upheld a preliminary injunction against a 2023 Florida law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows.

I doubt very much that any of these people have ever seen a "Drag Show" but they are against it because it is simply LGBTQ+ and they are against anything :GBTQ+ and since it is LGBTQ+ by their definition it is obscene!