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Gay Toughs Bash Back

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 25, 2009 1:49 AM CDT

(Newser) – Many gays are damn mad and they're not going to take it anymore. Now Bash Back!—formed just over a year ago—is boosting gay, transgender and sex worker protest to a freshly provocative level, reports Details. The group, with some 15 chapters nationwide, has forged its reputation with in-your-face actions like flinging condoms during a church "invasion" in Michigan and ripping down university bathroom signs to challenge a "binary" sexual classification.

A confrontation with the National Socialist Conference in Greensboro, NC, is the latest event planned on the Bash Back! web site, which features angry members sporting pink bandit masks and hoisting cudgels. "We won't take this lying down," the site warns. The group isn't "trying to change people's minds, we're not trying to bend straight people to give us freedom—we're fighting back," said one member in Wisconsin.

Marchers carry a rainbow flag at the gay pride parade along Fifth Avenue in New York last year.
Marchers carry a rainbow flag at the gay pride parade along Fifth Avenue in New York last year.   (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Motorcyclists ride on Eighth Street during the gay pride parade in New York this summer.
Motorcyclists ride on Eighth Street during the gay pride parade in New York this summer.   (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
A man waves the rainbow flag on Market Street during the San Francisco's 39th annual gay pride parade earlier this summer.
A man waves the rainbow flag on Market Street during the San Francisco's 39th annual gay pride parade earlier this summer.   (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Darryll Moore holds down a long string of colored balloons before the start of the 40th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March in New York in June.
Darryll Moore holds down a long string of colored balloons before the start of the 40th annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March in New York in June.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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COMMENTS
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riffran
Aug 26, 2009 2:53 AM CDT
GRRRRROSS!..lol
ChickenChopper
Aug 25, 2009 12:59 PM CDT
...and arent spewing hate or bullets
Reader65069154
Aug 25, 2009 12:14 PM CDT
@Fondue: Except they're liberals

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