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