Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis just made an enemy of Tommy Shelby from ‘Peaky Blinders’
Donald Trump making vaguely pro-LGBTQ+ comments and contrasted them with DeSantis’s hardline anti-queer stance. It also included ‘Chad’ like images of alpha males and fictional characters.
These included Christian Bale in American Psycho and Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders. It sought to paint DeSantis as a tough, plays-by-his-own-rules sort of guy.To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…pic.twitter.com/FT7LdW4vlsThe ad was shared last Friday, the last day of Pride Month, by the DeSantis War Room account.
It managed to upset even far-right gay Republicans. George Santos called it “the gayest crap” he’d ever seen and Richard Grenell blasted it as “insanely homophobic.”Now, the creators of the hit UK show Peaky Blinders have spoken out.
They say clips of the show were included without authorization.pic.twitter.com/o33HL2zMes“On behalf of the partners of Peaky Blinders — Steven Knight, Cillian Murphy, Caryn Mandabach Productions, Tiger Aspect Productions and Banijay Rights — we confirm the footage of Tommy Shelby’s character used within the video posted by Ron DeSantis’ campaign was obtained without permission or official licence.
