AKA William

A few weeks ago, an article (that I missed until this morning) on Details profiled a new and apparently violent response to the ongoing hatred LGBT people face daily — Bash Back, a group of LGBT freedom fighters with 15 chapters nationwide:

Founded just over a year ago, the group adamantly opposes what it calls the “gender binary system,” which classifies people as either male or female. Most members consider themselves neither or both. It’s anti-establishment, anti-military, and anti-marriage—for anyone. What Bash Back! supports is gender self-determination, lots of sex and pornography, and confrontation as a first resort—a necessary response to violence.

. . . “We’re not trying to change people’s minds, we’re not trying to bend straight people to give us freedom—we’re fighting back,” says Milwaukee member Tristyn Trailer-Trash. “We’re going to stop them from preaching hate, stop them from creating an environment that’s unfriendly to gay, queer, and trans people. We’re not going to be nice about it—they’re not being nice about it!”

Bash Back is being sued by the ADF, the anti-LGBT legal group for invading a Michigan church. The Details writer wrote about Bash Back, “They seem theatrical given the pranksterlike tenor of the protests, but members insist that their threats to use force are genuine.”

Read the full Details article here.