Lauren Boebert trolled by Pride-goers with cheeky chant. She fell for it.

Pride-goers in New York City trolled conservatives with a sarcastic chant this past weekend. It seems that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) didn’t understand the sarcasm and denounced those at the march for what they were saying – as well as LGBTQ+ people in general – as the joke went over her head.

Linking a Breitbart News article about how some people at Friday night’s 29th annual New York City Drag March in Manhattan chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re coming for your children” – a sarcastic response to the rise in anti-drag, anti-trans, and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric accusing LGBTQ+ people of sexually abusing children – Boebert said that she believed that they were sincerely and publicly announcing that they are going to sexually abuse children.

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“Unlike Ms. Boebert, I am legally trained and I’ve passed a few bar exams,” said Dem. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.

“When people march down the streets yelling out that they’re going to come for my children, I’m inclined to believe them,” she wrote. “Now, don’t get mad when we refer to you and anyone who doesn’t denounce this garbage as ‘groomers.'”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said yesterday that the chant was proof that the LGBTQ+ equality movement “grooms minors to have mastectomies and castration and fuels a multi billion dollar medical child abuse industry.”

Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis said, “Remember that thing they said they totally are not doing?” in response to the chant, and rightwing podcaster Graham Allen said that the march is “what EVIL looks like.” Conservative news websites, including Breitbart, the New York Post, and Fox News, ran articles about the chant, as if it meant that LGBTQ+ people were finally admitting to wanting to sexually abuse children and weren’t simply tired of being falsely accused of pedophilia by conservatives.

Several commentators – including Breitbart – compared the chant to a similar controversy in 2021 involving the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC).

The SFGMC made a video where they said that they’ll “convert your children” so that “we’ll make them tolerant and fair.” The video is obviously intended to be humor with a message – some of the lyrics included “Even grandma likes RuPaul” and “Gen Z’s gayer than Grindr” – but many on the right said that the song was an admission that LGBTQ+ people are child sex abusers and conservatives published SFGMC members’ addresses and photos online.

“We have received emails, phone messages, threats across all of our social media platforms, not just the chorus, but the staff, as well as the soloists who were featured in the song,” SFGMC executive director Chris Verdugo said at the time. “The [YouTube] comment that continues to stick out in my head is the one that said, ‘We’re going to put lead in your head.’”

“Some of our members’ jobs were contacted saying, ‘Do you know you have a pedophile working for you?’ or things of that nature. Singers on their social media have been getting threats. It’s been a harrowing 36 hours,” he continued, adding that their office had to be shut down.

“We will always accept others who may hold different values, but when violence is their choice of expression, since 1969 we have not backed down,” the SFGMC said in a statement.