An all-ages drag show in Texas over the weekend turned into an altercation very quickly. The show was attacked by a neo-nazi group, who were shortly confronted by a left-wing gun group who were defending the show.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the protest at the Texas Trust CU Theatre was organized by Protect Texas Kids in response to a holiday-themed show featuring performances by cast members of the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” TV show.
The report noted that the Christian nationalist New Columbia Movement and the neo-fascist American Nationalist Initiative also showed up to the protest.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation, and heavily armed members of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, were on scene to counter the right-wing protesters.
“As doors opened to the drag performance, 10 members of the neo-Nazi Aryan Freedom Network marched in formation toward the public area in front of the theater,” The Morning News reported. “One member of the group carried a flag bearing the Totenkopf skull-and-bones insignia of the Schutzstaffel, Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary organization which operated at the height of Nazi atrocities during World War II. Another wore patches with a swastika and Confederate flag. Several carried signs with homophobic slurs, various Nazi insignia, and the website URL for a white-power organization.”
“The group’s arrival immediately ratcheted tensions as the neo-Nazis, some of whom were carrying concealed weapons, faced off against the armed leftist group separated by several Grand Prairie police officers,” the report stated.
You can read the full report HERE.
Take a look at some of the scenes in the video clips below:
As the neo-Nazi Aryan Freedom Movement left the drag show protest, one member repeatedly grabbed at a handgun concealed in his pants, appearing to threaten counter-protesters pic.twitter.com/Bgh3wXyPiD
— Michael Williams (@michaeldamianw) December 18, 2022
