Queer activist posts meme making fun of Gadsden flag in ironic way
LAWRENCE – Recently, a queer activist named Jeremy Stacy posted a meme to the private Facebook group LFGAY for Lawrence, KS LGBTQIA and allies making fun of the Gadsden flag.
The meme depicts a parody version of the Gadsden flag. The original Gadsden flag shows a rattlesnake prepared to strike with the words, “DON’T TREAD ON ME” below it. However, in this parody version, a pink mongoose with white and light blue stripes, representing transgender people, is carrying a dead snake away with the words, “I’LL TREAD WHERE I PLEASE”.
This comes just after a government school tried to kick a 12-year-old boy out of school for having a patch of the Gadsden flag on his backpack, falsely claiming it’s origins are racist and uphold pro-slavery ideals. However, that’s not true. The Gadsden flag was actually used during the Revolutionary War and was intended as a symbol of resistance from British tyranny. So, this meme can easily be depicted as saying the very thing that conservatives have said about the trans/queer movement all along: That trans and queer people believe in using tyranny to oppress those that do not agree with them politically. And this wouldn’t be the first time that Stacy would post a meme like this, having posted another meme supporting the use of violence against those of different political ideologies back in July of this year.
Stacy, who appears to be a straight, White, liberal man, engaged to a woman, seems to push for dangerous radicalization in the LGBTQ+ community in Lawrence, Kansas. Of course, he only posts such images in the safety of a private group where such images seem to be tolerated, and occasionally liked and loved. Yet, these images and ideals can help create dangerous extremists in the trans/queer community, something Stacy doesn’t seem too concerned by, no matter how much that could negatively impact normal LGBT individuals that haven’t been radicalized and don’t want to hurt anybody.
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Ian Brannan
Ian Brannan is an independent journalist who founded The Kansas Constitutional in April 2022. His work focuses on issues including abortion, Convention of States, drug policy, education, government, LGBT issues, media, and more. He is also the co-host of the Remember COVID podcast.
