Homoseksuelle i hele USA samler sig i skydeklubber kaldet ‘Pink Pistols’.
‘Bevæbnede homoseksuelle får ikke tæv’ – sådan lyder mottoet i foreningen Pink Pistols, der opfordrer bøsser og lesbiske til at lære at bruge håndvåben, så de kan forsvare sig mod hate-crimes.
I dag praler Pink Pistols af at have over 45 afdelinger i hele USA samt tre i Canada. Her mødes garvede homoseksuelle skytter med nybegyndere, en gang om måneden, for at lære dem hvordan man håndterer pistolerne og rammer bullseye.
Gruppen blev stiftet af borgerrettighedsaktivisten Doug Kricki juli 2000 inspirereret af en artikel af Jonathan Rauch i magasinet Salon. Her beskriver han, hvordan hans homoseksuelle bekendte undslap at få tæv af voldelige homofober:
“I thought I was about to die,” says Austin; but he is alive, and that is because his companion reached into the truck and whipped out a pistol from under the seat, leveled it at the gay-bashers and fired a single shot over their heads. All at once, their courage deserted them. They ran back to their car and drove away.
Austin is one of two gay men I know who believe they were saved from death, or at least a long hospital stay, by guns.
.Du kan læse mere om Pink Pistols på homotropolis.dk.
