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LGBTQ activists defended drag queen protesters who chanted “We’re coming for your kids” — a chant they claim has been used for years, according to a report.
NBC News ran a story Tuesday about how LGBTQ activists claim the chant, which was recorded at New York City’s drag queen parade in June, was “taken out of context.”
“It’s all just words,” Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the New York City drag queen parade, told NBC News. “It’s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.”
NBC News quoted LGBTQ activists as saying that the “we’re coming for your kids” chant “has been used for years.” Twitter added a community note to NBC News’ tweet of the article that there is no evidence for these claims.
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Protesters at the 2023 drag queen parade in New York City, where the “we’re coming for your kids” chant took place.
“The news articles provide no evidence that the ‘we’re coming for your children’ chant has been shouted with pride for years, nor does it cite specific individuals making this claim,” the note reads. “This is very irresponsible reporting.”
Karla Jay, the first female president of New York’s Gay Liberation Front, told NBC News that the “We’re here for your kids” chant was an attempt to mock criticism of the LGBTQ community.
“The person who said this on a march isn’t the person who came up with this idea — the person on the march says, ‘Go ahead, call me that; why do I care?'” Jay said. “The person is trying to destigmatize this and claim their own power. You can’t blame the victims here, and that’s what the right wing is doing.”
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Participants in New York City’s 2023 drag queen parade, where protesters chanted “we’re coming for your kids.”
The drag queen march in New York City included a sign reading “Groom Cisies,” NBC News reported. Drag protesters last year chanted “groom, groom, groom,” Gothamist reported.
“These are the words they’ve used all our lives to manipulate and control us,” Griffin told NBC News, “and we can now own and see them for the untruths that they are.”
NBC News cited reports that drag queen protesters in recent decades used a similar chant, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re not going shopping,” which was used as a demand for more government funding to fight AIDS epidemic.
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LGBTQ activists defended drag queen protesters who chanted “we’re coming for your kids” — a chant they claim has been used for years, according to a report.
NBC News cited two drag queens as saying the “we’re coming for your kids” chant was in bad taste and only represented a portion of the LGBTQ community. Hucklefaery Ken, the organizer of this year’s drag queen march in New York City, said the chant was a “bad joke used to serve the interests of parasitic, predatory political propaganda and politics.”
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“It’s really scary for us,” said Fussy Lo Mein, a drag performer. “It doesn’t represent everyone — it represents that person. I thought it was a stupid idea, and I started singing on top of it with alternate verses.”
Patrick Hauf is a political writer for Fox News Digital.
