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Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley help raise bail for 'Straight Pride' counterprotesters
Source: NBC News
Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley help raise bail for 'Straight Pride' counterprotesters
Sept. 3, 2019, 3:15 PM EDT
By Tim Fitzsimons
The three dozen counterprotesters arrested at Saturday's Boston Straight Pride event — billed as an opportunity to "embrace the vibrancy" of heterosexuality — received high-profile help when Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tweeted a fundraiser link to help raise their bail money.
“One way to support the local LGBTQ community impacted by Boston’s white supremacist parade?” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Contribute to the Bail Fund for the activists who put themselves on the line protecting the Boston community.”
Ocasio-Cortez noted that leftover funds would be donated to the Massachusetts Bail Fund and GLASS, a local LGBTQ youth center.
Pressley, who represents the Boston area, tweeted her thanks "to the allies & accomplices who stood in the gap & laid their bodies on the line today."
On the day of the parade, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the protest on Twitter as an “I-Struggle-With-Masculinity” parade.
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Sept. 3, 2019, 3:15 PM EDT
By Tim Fitzsimons
The three dozen counterprotesters arrested at Saturday's Boston Straight Pride event — billed as an opportunity to "embrace the vibrancy" of heterosexuality — received high-profile help when Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tweeted a fundraiser link to help raise their bail money.
“One way to support the local LGBTQ community impacted by Boston’s white supremacist parade?” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Contribute to the Bail Fund for the activists who put themselves on the line protecting the Boston community.”
Ocasio-Cortez noted that leftover funds would be donated to the Massachusetts Bail Fund and GLASS, a local LGBTQ youth center.
Link to tweet
Pressley, who represents the Boston area, tweeted her thanks "to the allies & accomplices who stood in the gap & laid their bodies on the line today."
On the day of the parade, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the protest on Twitter as an “I-Struggle-With-Masculinity” parade.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/ocasio-cortez-pressley-help-raise-bail-straight-pride-counterprotesters-n1049306
Link to tweet
Link to tweet