Queer Counter-Protest Outnumbers Westboro Baptist Church 100 to 1
Hundreds of protesters converged in Midtown yesterday to form a 'Queer Bloc' and counter-protest the Westboro Baptist Church with Bash Back! NYC. The crowd was 200+ strong before WBC arrived. Another few dozen protesters with the NYC Anonymous group, MotherFuckery, joined the counter-protest in front of the Marriott Marquis hotel as well.
After about an hour of dancing to music, making signs and chanting; a measly two picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church arrived with homophobic signs. The 200+ queers and allies quickly surrounded them, forcing the NYPD to create a second set of barricades around them with officers in between. All the silly string, glitter and rainbow flags must have been too gay of a sight because the WBC packed up after 20 minutes, cutting the picket short by 40 minutes.