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Anti-gay activist attacks Mid-Atlantic Leather and Metro Weekly, gets dragged by Twitter
LaBarbera called MAL a "homosexual perversion-fest," but Twitter was having none of it
By Rhuaridh Marr and John Riley
January 12, 2018
Peter LaBarbera
Peter LaBarbera had it all planned out: He’d post a witty tweet making fun of Mid-Atlantic Leather by sharing Metro Weekly’s MAL Event Guide, and watch the likes roll in. Instead, he’s found himself getting slammed on Twitter.
LaBarbera, who founded anti-gay organization Americans for Truth about Homosexuality and has a history of offensive statements, called MAL a “homosexual perversion-fest,” on Twitter, adding, “Washington. ‘Gay’ mag. @metroweekly promotes it.”
LaBarbera, who some LGBTQ activists derisively refer to as “Porno Pete,” is known to have frequented LGBTQ events and taken salacious pictures of scantily-clad LGBTQ people while reporting on the “homosexual activist agenda.”
JoeMyGod wasn’t the only one to slam LaBarbera. He’s currently being read to filth on Twitter, with a number of users pointing out his obsession with homosexuality, asking if he was disappointed he couldn’t get tickets, and otherwise calling him out for trying to make an issue of people freely expressing themselves.
Classic. According to this Trump-hating, pro-#LGBTQ tweep, I’m the one with “serious issues,” not the grown homosexual men dressing up at Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend as “dogs”–complete with puppy-head mask and tail: #ProgressiveLogic#MAL#perversion-fest @CentaurMChttps://t.co/Gu7aN7TEia
However, when directly challenged by one Twitter user as to why he was “advertising” the event, LaBarbera responded by diverting to taxation and abortion.
So based on your reasoning, am I, who oppose LGBTQ perversions & porn, guilty because I expose these evil events (at major hotels like the @hyattregency)? Do I also secretly want higher taxes b/c I oppose the Democrats’ high-tax policies? And want more abortions b/c I’m pro-life?
You didn’t answer the one question I asked, so go have a great time. Conversing in good faith (which is a concept I am sure is foreign to you) would demand at least a simple answer that you can’t seem to muster. #byenow
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