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Activists threw a queer dance party outside Mike Pences house on Wednesday
Equal parts defiant and celebratory, activists chose to protest incoming Vice President Mike Pence by throwing a queer dance party outside his rented D.C. house. The protest was organized by Werk For Peace, a grassroots organization created in response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Founder Firas Nasr told Mic: The work that we do is about taking our bodies out of the private into the public, using the street as our dance floor to claim space, occupy space to assert we are here and we will dance. Pence is infamous for his anti-LGBTQ agenda but rather than merely attack him for his bigotry, the protest joyfully celebrated the queer community instead.
https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/821915961083232257https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/821917284247728128https://twitter.com/VStMartin/status/821889311884931073https://twitter.com/betsy_klein/status/821884019101073408https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/821893289364377601https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/821920487467089922https://www.facebook.com/MicMedia/videos/1367924126563707/
When Pence first rented a home in D.C., his neighbors protested his arrival by hanging up rainbow flags. Pence will now move into the Vice President's Residence.
[via Mic]
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