The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club and The Dallas Voice. Update
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UPDATE: Their twitter account has been suspended. While Protect Texas Kids has been allowed back on twitter. So some of these tweets will have broken links.
Something big happened on The Strip, the stretch of Cedar Springs with the Gay bars.
It had 218,000 views as of 10/31/2022. You can see it had 7,883 likes and was retweeted 1,550 times. A lot of people thought this was important. And it was important, an armed group had formed to defend the LGBTQ+ and had paraded down Cedar Springs. It wasn’t reported in the Dallas Voice.
The following is a screen capture incase the tweet disappears. John Brown was a famous abolitionist in American history and died fighting slavery.
In this tweet you can see they have taken up the road.
They were on the strip protecting the community way back on June 4th
It appears that earlier they were present and active against right-wingers attacking the drag show at Mr. Misster on June 4, 2022. They did a lot of reporting.
The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club was active in blocking the activities of Proud Boys protesting the drag show as shown in this tweet.
This is the Dallas Voice reporting on what happened. No mention of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. https://dallasvoice.com/protesters-hit-the-strip/
The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club have taken up opposing the right-wingers attacking Drag shows. The following is a complaint about them by Protect Texas Kids which is organizing the anti-drag show protests.
https://firepit.campstrategic.com/vm.cfm?i=4E4743CE98FDAB0D
This is the same webpage I had saved at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/
You can use the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive to save webpages which have a risk of disappearing so a permanent record will be kept. When anti-Gay individuals want to hide things that they said they delete pages. A lot of times you can find it at the Internet Archive. Back to the story about the Dallas Voice.
The Dallas Voice did start reporting where they mention the Elm Fork John Club in this Sept. 2, 2022 article. They haven’t done an article on the group itself.
https://dallasvoice.com/drag-in-the-suburbs/
At that point it is unavoidable. The reporting of the Dallas Voice is sympathetic to the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club.
However, it should be noted that the Dallas Voice in their article called them the Elm Fork John Brown Club, omitting the word “Gun” from their name. But it might have been careless editing.
This is the tweet by the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club about their actions.
Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club is still fighting anti-drag show protesters.
The Elm Fork John Brown Club twitter has shown ongoing engagement in opposing Kelly Neidert’s campaign of attacking drag shows. (We have in our directory of anti-Gay groups a listing of who they are. Link at the very end of this report.)
Here they are reporting on the attack on Plano Pride.
So what is the point of reporting all this?
An armed group of defenders of LGBTQ+ marched down Cedar Spring on June 24, 2022 and there is no reporting of this significant event, watched by 218,000 people, by the Dallas Voice. A seriously significant group has become an agent in the ongoing struggle about drag shows and the Dallas Voice hasn’t interviewed them or reported on them. I am doing the first report here.
The Dallas Voice doesn’t mention them in an article until Sept. 2, 2022 when it is basically unavoidable.
A very significant group has entered the affairs of the LGBTQ+ but the community doesn’t learn of them until a little over 3 months later. We still don’t know much about them except as we might find out observing their Twitter feed.
I think it is because the Dallas Voice didn’t approve of them and so didn’t give them coverage.
This isn’t about approving or disapproving what the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club believes or does.
It is about keeping the Gay community informed of what is happening.
It is also about whether the Dallas Voice is a newspaper or a public relations firm for the Cedar Springs establishment.
Postscript
The following probably frightens the Dallas Voice’s advertisers.
