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The boat’s driver “pulled out his vape he managed to rescue and on our boat of asthmatics,” he claimed, adding that the female passenger who had shown them her middle finger “screamed hysterically 75% of the time.”
In subsequent tweets, Robbie said that despite rescuing the boaters from the water - “They were legitimately hurt/burned,” he wrote - they received no apology or thanks from the group.
“Then, their boat literally blew up! #KarmaIsReal.” “These people harassed my family because we were flying gay pride flags in Moses Lake Washington by racing around us and shouting gay slurs,” Robbie, who identifies as trans and queer, tweeted, showing photos of the incident and sharing a video from his brother’s TikTok account which documented the interaction. The video shows the boat’s owners frantically paddling towards the boat they had been harassing, as their vessel smokes, flames, and then starts to ferociously burn.Ī police boat is shown trying to extinguish the blaze, before the burned-out husk of the boat is filmed being towed away. – Egan Millard is an assistant editor and reporter for Episcopal News Service.The video then zooms in, showing a woman, seated on the circling boat, sticking her middle finger up at the Pride flag boat’s occupants.Īnd then, in a comeuppance so perfect it’s almost too good to be true, the accused bigots’ boat caught fire. LGBTQ Pride Month, which celebrates the community, culture and liberation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning people, is marked each June by parades and festivals around the U.S., and has long been celebrated by The Episcopal Church and individual congregations. Though the number of reported anti-LGBTQ incidents overall has remained relatively steady in recent years, the number of incidents specifically targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people doubled from 2014 to 2019. God loves me.’ There are people that find that difficult to hear.”Īccording to the most recent statistics compiled by the FBI, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes made up 19% of all reported hate crime incidents in the United States in 2019.
“We’re trying to have a conversation with each other in public around our lives as gay people and say, ‘God created everybody. “It felt nice to be among friendly, affirming people this morning,” Woodward said. Though the rainbow flag in front of his church was gone, he wore a rainbow cape as he walked his dog, River Song, in the Ru Paws Drag Race dog parade. Christ calls us to show love and respect to our neighbors.”įar from being deterred, Woodward, who is gay, decided to step up his Pride celebration.
I realize that not all are accepting of our LGBTQ neighbors, but we should all be united in condemning this act. “The Pride flag is a symbol of love, of struggle, of sacrifice, by generations of our brothers and sisters. “While the monetary value of the flag is minimal, the symbolism of the act is immense,” she wrote. Traquair “condemn this act of hatred” and asked her diocese to pray for the person who did it. In an email to her diocese, Northern California Bishop Megan Traquair said the Sacramento Police Department is investigating. “It made me sad this morning to see that somebody wanted to take down what we think was a sign of love and burn it, but love isn’t that easily defeated,” Woodward told The Bee, his voice breaking with emotion.