On the 27th of June, St Petersburg FL had their annual Pride parade. “Greg” and his pack of theocratic Christian nationalists showed up to harass the Pride Crowd. One of the worst offenders wore a T-shirt calling for a “bibiical death penalty” for LGBTQ folks! This is the same crew that assaulted a child at Pasco Pride in 2023 and was trespassed from that event as a result. Yet they had police protection in St Petersburg.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence must have had advance intel these enemies were coming, as they showed up PREPARED. In high drag they deployed a banner large enough to hide the street preachers from public view, and drowned them out in a storm of blowing whistles worthy of driving off an ICE raid.
The theocrats had divided into two main packs and a few solo operators. The first of the two main groups had had enough after a bit of counterprotesting by the Sisters, and they packed up and left, escorted by the cops. This allowed the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to engage and largely neutralize the other crew, blocking their message of hate.
The parade went off without a hitch, other than the occasional medical caused by excessive heat as always seems to happen. I could not stay to the end of the parade as I was getting overheated myself. Seems to be a coal-fired climate these days…
Greg’s crew talks of Jesus this and Jesus that, but they don’t act much like what written records say of the historical Jesus. The only mention of loaves and fishes in their presence that I heard was when I asked them about it. Nothing about scourging the money changers either. They could not answer coherently when I asked them what they thought of the murder of the children of Gaza by Isra-Hell either.
A long haired “hippie” serving 5,000 people in a park, then taking a whip to the back of a payday lender or a foreclosing mortgage banker would probably find the cops showing up with hammer and nails at the ready. No concern of any of that from Greg’s street preachers, only anti-LGBTQ venom and hate.