Which is not to say I'm actively considering it myself. Okay, three may not be a trend, but lately I find myself curious about women not much older than I am who have careers, husbands, kids-the trifecta I'd like to hit-but then decide to upend their lives to be with women. It seems like every time you turn around these days you hear about another woman who is leaving her man for a woman: actress Cynthia Nixon, J.Crew's Jenna Lyons, my good friend Rachel, who gave me a blow-by-blow account of how she fell in love with a woman post-divorce. "Women tend to get more dissatisfied with marriage over time than men do." She looked and me and she goes, 'Well, Nicole, that's a really long time.' " And I have to give her so much credit, because she didn't make fun of me. "I sit down at the bar and I say to my friend, 'I'd just like to tell you: I'm gay!' I tell her my plan, that I'm going to stay married for another 10 or 15 years and then do all these other things. When she arrived at the restaurant, Nicole, who has the maturity and emotional perspective of the 41-year-old psychotherapist she is, but the manner of a sugar-high six-year-old, giddily announced her revelation. "I started having this fantasy that I'd just stay married until I was in my sixties, and one day I'd meet some woman and she and I would adopt old dogs and, like, live on a ranch," she says, laughing and shaking her head. It's who I am." At the time, Nicole had been separated from her husband for a year and had begun exploring same-sex relationships but was in the midst of one last reconciliation attempt with him. "I'm going down the parkway from Westchester, and it's very beautiful, very scenic, you know, the trees blowing in the wind, the sun coming through the clouds-and I had this crazy epiphany." "I was driving to the city to have dinner with a friend I've known since we were 19," she says. “ #retweet and make this hashtag about love, not hate.Nicole Sachs remembers perfectly the moment she realized she was gay. NFLX Queer Eye, tweeting out a snapshot of him and his husband holding hands. “Look at these cute lil #ProudBoys,” wrote Bobby Berk, a host of Netflix’s The image also contains several lines of text encouraging people to follow the Final Solution, the Nazi idea that led to the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust.īack on Twitter, the tone was several worlds apart.
#Stop that im not gay meme full#
One user, replied to the meme and wrote, “There is a solution.” Along with that line, posted an image full of Nazi regalia-swastikas, bright Reich red. (He’s not.) It’s a statement that the Proud Boys can-and will-use his image to carry out their own propaganda.
The image isn’t meant to suggest Takei is a white supremacist. In an effort to ridicule Takei, another Parler post was a meme of the actor holding up the OK sign, a gesture white supremacists use to identify themselves to each other.
“Fags,” was another response, from “Can’t stand gay people.should be illegal.” “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?” wrote one user, in reply to the screenshot.
Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ chairman, said in a separate Parler post that the left was attempting to turn the group’s name into “a slur” and that the gay pride campaign with #proudboys was an attempt “to drown out the voices of our supporters.”Ī screenshot posted on Parler of the tweet from the Canadian Armed Forces in the United States received some of the strongest reaction and was widely shared on Parler. Much of the action was carried out by the Proud Boys’ official account on the app, which has 60,000 followers.
The Proud Boys took none too kindly to this, filling up Parler with the type of hateful messages that got them kicked off Twitter in the first place. And it’s their absence on Twitter-the result of toxic and abusive language-that allowed the gay activists to seize control of #proudboys on Sunday. The Proud Boys have no official presence on Twitter since the social media site banned them in 2018, so they have spent the last few days in gleeful celebration over their newfound, Trump-fueled fame on Parler, a two-year-old social media app popular among conservatives.