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Gay Twitter Took Over the #ProudBoys Hashtag & It Was Epic

Gay Twitter Took Over the #ProudBoys Hashtag & It Was Epic

Gay Twitter Took Over the #ProudBoys Hashtag & It Was Epic

Twitter users are reclaiming the "Proud Boys" phrase from the far-right, white supremacist group.

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A mention from Donald Trump during last week's first Presidential Debate may have emboldened the Proud Boys (remember the now-infamous "stand back and stand by" shoutout?), but Gay Twitter is rightfully not letting the far-right, men-only political group with affiliations to white supremacy (an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group) take up any more online space. 

Over the weekend, LGBTQ+ users on Twitter decided it was not going to let the hate group suck up any more of the air out of the room than they already have, and in an effort to reclaim the "proud boys" phrase and replace hate and intolerance with love and pride, Gay Twitter took over the #ProudBoys hashtag, flooding it with images of out and proud gay men (a lot of couples!) living their best and most authentic lives! 

While NowThis News reports that it's hard to pinpoint exactly where the queer reclamation of #ProudBoys started, out Star Trek legend George Takei tweeted last Thursday that it would be cool if LGBTQ+ Twitter could follow in the same footsteps as online K-Pop fandoms when it comes to a successful social media blitz. (Over the summer, K-Pop Twitter successfully supported the Black Lives Matter movement online by obstructing a ton of racist hashtags.)

"I wonder if the BTS and TikTok kids can help LGBTs with this,"  Takei wrote. "What if gay guys took pictures of themselves making out with each other or doing very gay things, then tagged themselves with #ProudBoys. I bet it would mess them up real bad. #ReclaimingMyShine."

Of course, the results were absolutely queer and wonderful, and we loved to see it! 

Don't mess with Gay Twitter! 

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Raffy Ermac

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Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel

Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel