The community’s message back is, ‘Yes this is frightening, but we’re going to turn out and vote regardless.’”

It doesn’t use many words, but it uses a lot of images I think are meant to threaten us. “ This has a very aggressive tone about it. Many gay bars - including Stirrup’s - are hosting voter registration drives. The flyer was sent to at least four gay bars in the area with the return address an empty parking lot with #MAGA as the sender.Ĭhris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, said the flyers were mailed to intimidate. To see somebody send a postcard that had a picture of the weapon used in one of the deadliest assaults in this nation’s history, and one that happened at an LGBTQ bar, and to send that image to LGBTQ bars, to me is not a coincidence.” “ We live in a post-Pulse world in the LGBTQ community, especially in the bar scene. Melvin Brown, owner of Stirrup Sports Bar, found the flyer in his bar’s mailbox calling it “ disturbing”. Btw, the gun pictured in the flyer, an assault rifle, is similar to the one used in the shooting at Pulse. More violence toward to the LGBTQ community! These flyers were sent to Nashville gay bars last week with the acronym and images of the Statue of Liberty (L), a gun (G), a beer bottle (B) and Trump (T).