BOISE, Idaho — A minor confrontation broke out at the controversial “Hetero Awesome Fest” on Saturday when a protester took the stage and began singing a pro-LGBTQ+ song before being removed.
According to several livestreams of the event, including those from Old Street Saloon, the incident occurred during the two-day festival held on June 20-21 in Cecil D. Andrus Park, directly across from the Idaho State Capitol. Mark Fitzpatrick, owner of the Old State Saloon and organizer of the event, rushed the stage and took the microphone from the man after about a minute of singing.
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I walked through that not realizing what it was. I saw a bunch of kids bouncy houses and there was some terrible country music on a stage. Friends and i were like what is this pitiful conservative day in the park bs and kept walking. We didn’t notice any anti pride stuff but just the vibe was pitiful maga people with vendor tents but i didn’t even see a maga flag either. We were just passing through boise for the first time and got beers nearby. Then a friend saw it on front page of Reddit after we left Boise and we were like holy shit that’s what it was
Why the hell does the link just redirect me to their YouTube channel?
Edit: Seems to do that only with EU countries, other countries’ IPs work. Probably don’t want to deal with privacy protection.
Unfortunately, a lot of local American news sources have opted out of serving pages to the EU for privacy reasons. Kind of disturbing what that means for Americans.
We’re all victims of American capitalism
If I were to guess, it’s because they don’t wanna deal with hosting global amounts of video traffic, so for international links, it just forwards it to YouTube, which is much better suited for that.
Then it would be US only. But it works for example with Switzerland (non-EU).
Not necessarily. They can have a redirect link without necessarily blocking the original link. There are ways to redirect traffic based on where it’s from it doesn’t mean it becomes impossible to access that source directly.
Dozens lol
There’s dozens of us!
Heteros cant be pro lgbtq+ now?
Should rename it to bigot festival. Cant call it hetero with all the closest gays it attracts.
BIsexualGOaTFEST?
Hetero- festival
I don’t see why we don’t steal heterosexuality from these dumb fucks and add it to the queer community. Literally make it “OK with people who have preference” against “hates preference” if we stop letting them hide bigotry behind normal things, they can’t keep pretending they’re not bigots.
Just have some delicious drag queen tell them in a husky voice “Babydoll, you see that white triangle hiding in the back on the fancy Pride Flag? That’s for all you vanilla-ass straight motherfuckers. You already ON the pride flag. You’re part of this shit already! Welcome to the party, it’s already going hard, and it’s your turn to sing ;)”
My dude, this post goes so hard it made me blush.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
Random straight white dude here. I’m good with this. If my choices are either be included with the LGBQT+ crowd which also includes straight guys, OR be thought of as part of the hateful group who only includes themselves?
I’d rather be part of the LGBTQ+ group. My view has always been you be you, and let others be others. When you start hating others for being themselves, you’re probably the problem. Unless that other person is a nazi or pedophile. Because fuck those guys.
Ideally we don’t fuck those guys, we can’t risk them reproducing.
They already have issues finding partners, because no shit, i don’t want a bigot or nazi as a partner too. So they is already a natural selection pressure on them which reduces their numbers significantly over the next few generations, if we keep it up!
@Postmortal_Pop Pretty sure that’s already part of it. In the original Pride flag, the colours had meanings, and none of them were either exclusionary or definitional; they all applied equally to straight people, or anyone. It was always meant to be inclusive; hell, that’s why we use a rainbow. All-colour is a visual metaphor for all people.
Yeah but we need to really sell it. I’m tired of these people pretending they have a culture, we need to take away any hint of ambiguity in the discourse. Literally put a hetero banner and marchers right in the middle of every parade like it’s not the default but instead another choice.
We’re not fighting them on an ideological front, we’re fighting them on a tolerance front, so we need to take their every shingle ideal away until there’s nothing they can rally behind except for blond hate of the other.
Well now I want to know what the song was.
I kissed a girl
Just guessing
Pink Pony Club.
Just guessing.
Anything Jake Hole.
Just guessing
“I love you Mr. Hole.” Him, Digbar, and Alex Schor are kinda great ngl. Digbar was my number 3 artist on Spotify wrapped.
YMCA
Just guessing
Ram Ranch
Just guessing.
I was gonna guess this
Closeted Bro Convention
This sounds like, in the best case, it’d be like one of those Christian alternative-rock festivals, organised to demonstrate that you don’t need the Devil’s music to have fun, where you have bands playing watered-down, Jesused-up versions of punk/emo/metal and some dad in Vans and a studded belt taking the mike between bands to tell everyone that the raddest thing is to obey your parents and abstain from drugs and premarital sex.
A more likely scenario, though, would involve this being to some extent an anti-wokeness hate rally, with conspiracy theories about how the foundations of Western Civilisation are under threat from the gays and communists and, of course, (((those people))).
When evangelicals try to reach young people by sounding cool, it’s worse than root canal. “Get down and boogie with Jeezus, he’s a totally awesome dude!” 😆😆😆
Hetero awesome fest
looks inside
Closeted gay men
I grew up in Idaho. Can confirm, that’s basically the whole population.
Like my dude, just suck a dick and live a happy life.
This has big “why can’t I also have a cake and gifts” energy.
I went to a kid’s birthday party the other day. There was a little girl (maybe 4y/o?) there who had been to another party earlier in the day but left before that party had cake.
The second that cake was mentioned she starts wandering around going, “Can I have cake?” to anyone who would listen.
“Can I have cake? Can I have cake?” I was told someone had cake and I’ll be damned if I don’t get some immediately.
That whole article is infuriating… WHAT WAS THE SONG!!
but seriously, this article paints such a sad sad picture for them
The festival, which drew roughly 30 to 50 people at any given time on both Friday and Saturday (at a park…in the state capitol… it was just people wandering around wondering wtf was going on lol)
“He sang a song with lyrics that go against our values,” Fitzpatrick said… “This is yet another example of lies and deceptions from the Pride community. That’s what they are: liars and deceivers. They do it to victimize children. It’s pathetic and evil.”
like, ffs. That was such an insane comment to make after someone sings a song you don’t like, but then you find out the rest of his “events”
various events, including “Beers for Breeders” gatherings, Conspiracy Theory Trivia Night, where patrons can win an AR-15 rifle, Christian singles events, Bible study sessions, and gatherings for flat-earthers.
What what (in the butt) by Samwell
I hoping it was Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
He also said he received death threats for his views about what he called the “overt sexuality” he sees in Pride events and people who identify as LGBTQ+.
The Old State Saloon has hosted various events, including “Beers for Breeders” gatherings.
My how the turn tables.
Can someone check if the active number of hinge users went up during this event?
Why Hinge? Are you thinking of Grindr?
Also, dozens of people isn’t enough to make a significant blip.
It might be in Idaho. That’s like 1/5 of Boise.
I’m a cis white male, but I’ll suck some dick to protest this bullshit.
Check dm’s
Oddly enough this IS on my bingo card for today.
