Posted on 08/21/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Last Friday at a backyard punk show, Quinn McClurg was taking photos of her friends smiling at 10:02 p.m. In mere minutes, the venue became a site of a mass shooting that targeted its queer and trans attendees.
The show was held in the backyard and garage area of Nudieland, a venue located south of Minneapolis, Minn. By the end of the night, six were injured and one was pronounced dead—a beloved member of the community known as August Golden.
McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman. Having moved to Minneapolis only in 2021, DIY shows like Nudieland were quick to take her in.
“DIY shows are one of the only regularly safe places for trans folks, queer folks, punks and everybody to get together and socialize,” McClurg told Reckon. “Because everybody you know and love is there. People you’ve worked in the encampments with, people you’ve done protests with—everybody’s there.” Nudieland is more than a home
Nudieland derived from its sibling venue, Disgraceland two years ago as an expansion. But it isn’t just a venue; Nudieland houses many of its punk patrons. A resident of the house who requested anonymity for their safety shared with Reckon that Nudieland never strove towards being a haven for queer and trans punks because it just already was to begin with.
The resident, who is also trans, said, “This is not a unique space. So many of the punkhouses I started going to, as young as 16, in and around Southside [Minneapolis], were the same way: there was no striving, we were just in it together, whoever walked in. We’ve always been freaks.”
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Just like Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain, France and England.
McClurg is a 21-year-old poet, journalist and student at the University of Minnesota. She is also a trans woman. Having moved to Minneapolis only in 2021, DIY shows like Nudieland were quick to take her in.
Who cares?
Maybe these faggots and gender deniers will think twice about going anywhere.
I seriously doubt it. What a bunch of chumps and freeloaders.
A tweet claims it was two blacks.
I hope so.
“As opposed to a Love filled mass shooting?”
That was my question. Also, apparently the place isn’t such a “haven” after all, is it?
McClurg is just a male pretending to be a female.
This article was from the 17th. There are newer articles but they report the same narrative.
Lots of beloved community members dying lately.
Then he is a “he,” not a “she.” He is a guy who likes to pretend he’s a woman.
Amen to that! And I’m not kidding.
He probably also pretends he is a poet, journalist and student.
That's my bet. Too bad there's no office pool.
You still are.
That's my bet. Too bad there's no office pool.
Or a nation approaching a societal enema. We’ll see.
Drag queens
What can go wrong
The author of the piece sounds like he’d take Pottersville over Bedford Falls.
Nudieland became shootieland.
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