co-opted their group's Twitter hashtag with images of queer love.Members of the white supremacist organization, which is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, took to the social media platform Parler to vent their fury about the campaign, which has sparked thousands of images in the fight against hatred.The Proud Boys have been banned by Twitter since 2016, but about 60,000 members follow the group on Parler, an app favored by conservatives and conspiracy theorists.
The main account has been spewing most of the vitriol.However, Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the group, complained that the repurposed Twitter hashtag has turned Proud Boys into a "slur" and a way "to drown out the voices of our supporters," according to.