Sunday, September 1, 2019

Apparently Straight Pride Parade Was Mostly Men with Trump Themes

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex  (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called out participants in Boston's "Straight Pride Parade," suggested the gathering should have been called the "I-Struggle-With-Masculinity" parade.

"For men who are allegedly so 'proud' of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to their event," Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet accompanied by a video showing marchers. "Seems more like a 'I-Struggle-With-Masculinity' parade to me."

The video Ocasio-Cortez linked to showed mostly men walking along the street waving American flags and holding signs that said "Make normalcy normal again." Other signs and floats expressed many messages that echoed Donald Trump's  rhetoric. One float carried signs that read "Drain the swamp," "Secure America's borders" and "Trump 2020."

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) denounced the parade on Twitter., asking the people of Boston to ,  "continue to turn our backs on hatred."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/459554-ocasio-cortez-mocks-boston-straight-pride-parade-as-a-i-struggle-with