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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:22 AM Sep 2019

Teens Waving MAGA Flags Disrupt School's First Gay Straight Alliance Meeting

Source: Newsweek

TEENS WAVING MAGA FLAGS DISRUPT HIGH SCHOOL'S FIRST GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE MEETING

BY DANIEL AVERY ON 9/5/19 AT 6:30 AM EDT

Students holding the first meeting of a Gay Straight Alliance at a school in California were interrupted by classmates who reportedly shouted slurs, carried a banner reading "Make America Great Again" and followed them into the parking lot.

The inaugural meeting took place at Frontier High School in Bakersfield on August 28. Afterward, according to a parent who posted on Facebook, a group of "straight kids" came in holding hands and shouting "This is what's right!"

The newcomers were members of Future Farmers of America (FFA), a 91-year-old youth organization that's typically nonpartisan. But, according to the parent, "lately [there's been] tension at the school between FFA and any kids they've determined as 'liberal,'" adding that "the gay community is apparently the one they've decided to mess with."

One FFA member, a senior named Matthew, told KERO Channel 23 that he and other members were suspended for "harassment, intimidation and sexual assault."

But Matthew insists they only attended out of "curiosity" and says a GSA member instigated the altercation. "If you have an opinion that people don't agree with, you get hated on," he claimed.

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/gay-straight-alliance-maga-bakersfield-1457737


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Teens Waving MAGA Flags Disrupt School's First Gay Straight Alliance Meeting (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2019 OP
They need to disband thatschool's FFF chapter mercuryblues Sep 2019 #1
Newsweek related story at bottom of link. Drew Brees and anti-gay group video empedocles Sep 2019 #2
Assholes and you showed up why ??? To confront a meeting of GSA but now you are a victim Puleeze lunasun Sep 2019 #3
FFA students were chanting safeinOhio Sep 2019 #4
They have other flags as well. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #5

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
1. They need to disband thatschool's FFF chapter
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:41 AM
Sep 2019

"If you have an opinion that people don't agree with, you get hated on," he claimed.

The persecution complex. IOW. why can call you any name you want, follow and sexually harass you. When you fight back... Why do you hate us?

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
5. They have other flags as well.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 08:14 PM
Sep 2019

They have other flags as well.

Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

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