A Boise, Idaho “Heterosexual Awesomeness” festival drew paltry attendance last Saturday, attracting only “dozens” of attendees despite its promises of “live music, food trucks, kid-friendly chaos, and hard-hitting talks.” At one point during the festival, a minor incident occurred after a pro-LGBTQ+ singer snuck onstage to perform a song about a transgender boy.
The event, organized by bar-owner Mark Fitzpatrick and held at Cecil D. Andrus Park across from the Idaho State Capitol, proclaimed, “This ain’t your limp-wristed woke fest; it’s a full-on celebration of family values with guts,” adding, “[We’re] throwing down to honor God’s design and obliterate the anti-family noise.”
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However, at one point, musician Daniel Hamrick was welcomed onstage, and he removed button-up shirt to reveal a jacket with rainbow heart and pink triangle patches and a midriff-revealing T-shirt that said “Keep Canyon County Queer,” them reported. He then began performing a song entitled, “Boy.”
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Hamrick sang, “They put him in dresses to keep him in line, they say ‘It’s a phase’ and ‘It’s all in his mind.’ They put him in ballet, he wants to play ball. What matters to him doesn’t matter at all — the boy that everyone thought was began to sing, “Afraid of the news on his parents’ TV,” the livestream to the event suddenly cut out.
He added, “They grew out his hair but he wanted it short. Put him in a skirt, now he’s all out of shorts. It’s not just aesthetics, it’s down to his heart. They’re breaking his will and he’s breaking apart.”
He continued, “This kid has got no chance. To stop the woke advance, let teacher take a glance: ‘What’s in your underpants?’ Elephants taking pride in tr**ny suicide. When all the books are fried, we’ll see how many die!”
He then began to sing, “Afraid of the news on his parents’ TV,” the livestream to the event suddenly cut out.
Fitzpatrick reportedly rushed the stage and took the microphone from Hamrick and then got into a scuffle with another attendee who mistook him for someone trying to derail the event, KTVB reported.
“He sang a song with lyrics that go against our values,” Fitzpatrick said. “I took the microphone from him, and he and his friends were told to leave. This is yet another example of lies and deceptions from the Pride community. That’s what they are: liars and deceivers. They do it to victimize children. It’s pathetic and evil.”
At another point during the festival, self-described American Nationalist podcaster David J. Reilly said Boise is a nice city to live in, noting, “There aren’t any Black people here.”
Fitzpatrick owns the Old State Saloon, where he has invited cisgender heterosexuals to “champion heterosexual awesomeness, standing firm in the face of radical opposition.”
His group that organized the event describes itself as “a battle-ready force in the culture war, targeting … those who oversexualize children, DEI hustlers, and school indoctrinators.”
A sad history of Straight Pride events in the U.S.
In 2019, a Massachusetts group called Super Happy Fun America held a “straight pride” event in Boston, Massachusetts. It was basically a white supremacist rally celebrating then-President Donald Trump. Only about 100 to 200 attendees participated, including alt-right, ex-gay troll Milo Yiannopoulos. Counter-protestors vastly outnumbered the attendees.
A similar event in California had 20 attendees and 200 counterprotesters. It began with a brief, private morning rally at the nearby Durrer Barn. The barn’s owners said they had no idea their venue had been reserved for a hate rally, and so they cut the event shortly after learning about it.
In 2015, Anthony Rebello promoted a Straight Pride parade in Seattle. He invited thousands of people via Facebook, writing: “In the name of equality & equal rights, I have created this event to celebrate our right to be heterosexual, and to encourage younger heterosexuals that they should be proud of their heterosexuality.”
The parade was held on July 25, 2015 — Rebello was the only one who marched, holding a bunch of black and white balloons and a “STRAiGhT Pride” sign made of cardboard. He blamed some sort of vague gay terror squad for his parade’s failure, whining, “A lot of heterosexuals don’t want their pictures taken because they are scared of the LGBT community. Look at the way they have treated me.”
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