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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 11:38 PM Jul 2021

Wyoming Bar Sells Out of Violently Anti-LGBTQ Tees Bragging to 'Shoot' Gay People as a 'Cure for



Wyoming Bar Sells Out of Violently Anti-LGBTQ Tees Bragging to ‘Shoot’ Gay People as a ‘Cure for AIDS’


GOP Lawmakers Silent

A bar in Cheyenne has been selling tee shirts depicting an old man pointing a gun straight ahead, and emblazoned with the message: “In Wyoming we have a cure for AIDS, We shoot f—in’ f——.”

“We are sad to say that we failed to convince a local bar to pull these shirts from circulation,” Wyoming Equality says in a Facebook post. “We hoped that they would choose to stop selling them when they realized the harm it did to the LGBTQ community and those living with AIDS. We are not sharing the name of the business because we do not want them to gain notoriety/ sell more shirts off the pain of our community. It is a sad day.”

The Casper Star-Tribune reports “Sara Burlingame, executive director of Wyoming Equality, said she approached the bar’s owner twice and asked him to stop selling the shirts. The owner refused, she said.”

They add that a “person who answered the phone at the Cheyenne bar refused to put the Star-Tribune in contact with the manager or the owner when contacted for comment.”

Read more: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/07/wyoming-bar-sells-out-of-violently-anti-lgbtq-tees-bragging-to-shoot-gay-people-as-a-cure-for-aids/
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Wyoming Bar Sells Out of Violently Anti-LGBTQ Tees Bragging to 'Shoot' Gay People as a 'Cure for (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP
Wow cate94 Jul 2021 #1
it's marketing. they may or may not actually believe it but if it works for churches why not nt msongs Jul 2021 #2
How about WEAR it? Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #3
Sigh cate94 Jul 2021 #4
Normally I don't advocate violence, but this shirt LITERALLY IS doing exactly that Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #6
Matthew Shepard was found in Wyoming Deuxcents Jul 2021 #5

msongs

(70,178 posts)
2. it's marketing. they may or may not actually believe it but if it works for churches why not nt
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 11:55 PM
Jul 2021
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. How about WEAR it?
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 11:59 PM
Jul 2021

I look forward to hearing about some idiot getting their stupid face punched in wearing one of these around.

cate94

(2,888 posts)
4. Sigh
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:16 AM
Jul 2021

My bro died of AIDS at45. I’d love to punch the guy who created this, but I’m now 20 yrs older than my brother when he died. But, I have no problem letting anyone I see wearing this shit just what I think of them.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Normally I don't advocate violence, but this shirt LITERALLY IS doing exactly that
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:24 AM
Jul 2021

Ergo, I honestly hope someone gets their friggin ass beat for wearing it around. And I don't feel bad about hoping for that.

Sorry about your brother, that's awful

Deuxcents

(19,720 posts)
5. Matthew Shepard was found in Wyoming
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 12:23 AM
Jul 2021

Beaten to death and left on a fence b/c of his sexual orientation. I find these people who buy into this hate disgusting.

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