San Francisco Pride drops Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider after 80s rocker posted this tweet
Facebook explained the decision.“San Francisco Pride was on the cusp of announcing Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as the unofficial rallying cry of this year’s SF Pride Parade & Celebration, with the band’s frontman Dee Snider performing the song on our center stage.
Dee has always been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.“However, when we were notified about the tweet in which Dee expressed support for Kiss’s Paul Stanley’s transphobic statement, we were heartbroken and angry.
The message perpetuated by that tweet casts doubt on young trans people’s ability to self-identify their gender.”The statement concluded, “We have mutually agreed to part ways, but appreciate Dee seeing this as a teachable moment and a reminder that even allies need to be educated to ensure that they are not casually promoting transphobia.
To all our allies – we want to call you in – not call you out.”On Sunday, Kiss member Paul Stanley, 71, posted a tweet questioning the age at which children are supported to transition.Stanley wrote, “There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it.”He said that while “there ARE individuals who as adults may decide reassignment is their needed choice,” he criticized “turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative.”He cautioned against “[…] Believing that because a little boy likes to play dress up in his sister’s clothes or a girl in her brother’s, we should lead them steps further down a path that’s far from the innocence of what they are.
