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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
In a now-viral email, a gay man gave his Republican-voting family an ultimatum.
He warned them that they could not continue to vote for the GOP and maintain their relationship with him.
Ryan Short, 42, of Seattle, sent the email to his family, who reside in Dallas, Texas, following a conversation with his dad, Richard, an 80-year-old war veteran who votes Republican.
"We were just having one of our random catch-ups and he just casually said, 'I'm still Republican,'" Short told Insider.
Short asked if his dad still supported the party despite its recent rhetoric against LGBTQ people, to which his father responded, "Yes."
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Much of the attention last night and today is focused on the history made and the speeches given from actors and The Daniels, but Gay Twitter (and beyond) also found time to fall head over heels in love with Paul Rogers, the man who took home the Best Editing Oscar for his work on the sci-fi giant.
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