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This little boy and a bunch of balloons defeated bigots at Pride
Homophobes in Madison, Wisconsin, were warded off by a little boy and a handful of colourful balloons at the annual Pride celebrations on August 9.
The powerful image of love overcoming hate was posted on Reddit yesterday, and shows a little boy obscuring a Christian protest group’s anti-gay messages with a large bunch of rainbow helium balloons in the shape of stars.
Photographer Lars Koch explained how the boy, with a little help from those around him, stopped the homophobes in their tracks, resulting in the protest being abandoned after around 15 minutes.
‘This little boy had a balloon and was holding it in front of one of the signs, but it wasn’t doing much good,’ he said, speaking to Gay Star News.
‘Then an adult, presumably his parent, came over and gave him a lot more to better obscure the signs.
‘The bigot tried to move his sign away, but the boy was persistent and kept it blocked.’
Even as the protest group tried to move their banner, displaying the words ‘homosex incompatible with Christianity’ alongside a list of Bible verses, the boy continued to walk in front of them, obscuring the sign’s message until the sign-holder finally gave up.
‘Shortly after the man bundled up his sign and the boy moved on to the next bigot,’ Lars said.
‘As this was happening the crowd was singing ‘We shall overcome’ so it was quite cinematic.
‘Pretty soon the rest of the bigots were rolling up their signs and heading home.’
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Mel Spencer
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