Gary Powell

Research Fellow for SOGI at the Bow Group. Co-writer of film, The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood. Anti-surrogacy campaigner. Gay atheist conservative.

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

I see we have now reached the beheadings in the street phase of cultural enrichment

[Normal Gay Psychiatrist @NormalGayPsych]

Pride does not cater to gay people anymore. It has been taken over and is only for "queers" and trans now.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

The heroic actions of the public in Belfast may have saved a life. We hope and pray that the victim survives. But public heroism of this sort is only necessary because our liberal ruling class refuses to see the recklessness of importing violent young men from backward societies.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

The police are probably scouring the victim’s phone and social media to see how he’s to blame.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

"Serious injuries after stabbing". Maybe the BBC's fact checkers might want to take a look at this article and tell us whether it accurately represents what we can all see in the video of this brutal attack?

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Honestly, if you're a Labour MP who's a long-term but totally secret Terf, and you're still making foolish ignorant statements about the EHRC code to save yourself, do you really think women who've you've watched being bullied by the LP over the years will keep yr secret forever?

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

We don’t have to live like this.

End mass immigration.
Leave the ECHR.
Deport all illegals & criminals.
Secure our country.
Put our own people first.

Not all cultures are equal.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

What happened in Belfast last night is horrific.

The authorities must reveal the identity and status of the attacker immediately.

The public are entitled to the truth.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

I just love the idea that after presumably coming out to her community, doing IVF and raising two children with her non-Muslim, tattooed, lesbian life-partner, the woman in question remains committed to full Islamic modesty dress

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Hi, it's me again. The lesbian who is annoyed at Pride shit.

I'm back with another example of stupid corporatised activist Pride slop. This time the culprit is Ladybird Books.

Ladybird posted a Pride illustration showing a lesbian couple welcoming a baby into their home with the message: "Everyone should feel free to be themselves, no matter who they are or who they love."

How lovely. Problem is one of the women is wearing a hijab and predictably, the Muslim community aren't pleased.

Now, before the usual suspects start hyperventilating, let me be clear. The angry Muslim response doesn't surprise me and it shouldn't surprise you either. It is not news that Islam reckons homosexuality should be condemned at best and dealt with by creative forms of capital punishment at worst.

What fascinates me is the complete and utter detachment from reality displayed by the people who created this image.

Why did they have to put her in a hijab? Have these people ever met an openly lesbian woman wearing a hijab?

I have met plenty of lesbians. I've met lesbians from conservative religious backgrounds. I've met lesbians who have been disowned by their families. Lesbians who have hidden relationships out of fear and lesbians who moved to live in liberal countries were they could be openly gay safely.

What I haven't encountered is a large population of women who are simultaneously living under oppressive religious rules around female modesty while openly raising children with another woman.

I mean, duh. If a woman is in an environment where she is expected to cover herself from head to toe lest men be tempted by her presence, there is a very good chance that openly living as a lesbian is not going to be allowed either.

But the people who designed this image don't care whether it reflects reality. They care whether it reflects an activist fantasy in which every identity category can be stacked without any tension or contradiction. It's like goddamn woke bingo.

Many of the activists pushing this nonsense are among the most privileged people imaginable. They grew up in liberal Western democracies. Have never faced serious consequences for being gay or had to hide who they are. They have never worried that their family might disown them. And never feared arrest, violence, social exclusion, or being throw off a building or hanged.

They are so dumb and naive that they create cartoons that are 100% going to cause grief for gays and lesbians. This cartoon was only ever going to turn negative attention on us from the community most enthusiastic about killing us worldwide.

Young woke morons need to remember that older gay people remember what actual homophobia looked like. Gay people outside of wealthy Western cities still experience it today. Many gays from Muslim-majority countries can tell you exactly why they would rather avoid the conflict between religious orthodoxy and homosexuality.

But those voices are inconvenient because they get in the way of the progressive fantasy that all minority groups naturally fit together in one big rainbow coalition.

Sorry, babes. We don't. The rainbow is a cute idea, but
sometimes values clash. And pretending otherwise doesn't make those tensions disappear.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

This unqualified bore says his secondhand opinions are “not up for debate.” Yes they are. At a university all opinions are up for debate. If you cannot defend your opinions rationally, either they are indefensible or you are too stupid to defend them. In either case you have no right to force them on students who have expressed their wish to attend a lecture by doing so.
https://t.co/2HqOx6x2TP

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’ve watched barbaric footage in Belfast last night of attempted beheading in a supposedly civilised country.

Just to make it clear, I’m disgusted, many people will be. Whatever Elon Musk, Nigel Farage & JD Vance say won’t “whip up” anything, the situation already created fury.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Please play to your kids, and those so wrapped up in bashing Britain they can’t see the wood for the trees 🇬🇧

[Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA]

Hello Fresh deserves to go bankrupt after this stunt. Absolutely revolting and obscene. And the Alphabet Mafia wonders why society is turning against them? Really???

I’m a lesbian and this disgusts me. I can’t imagine how the straights feel.

It’s just too much.

[LesbianLabour @LesbianLabour]

A brilliant post that says everything about the corporate sponsorship of Pride & the TQ+ advocates. The author describes the lives and attitudes of the majority of lesbians who have argued for our right to be treated as equals, not special, just equal. Tagging in @oliviabaileymp

[Gary Powell @GaryJPowell]

@aniobrien Very well said, @aniobrien. The HelloFresh ad is homophobic and reduces and objectifies gay men into a sexual stereotype and sexual act. I can imagine few ways of a company talking about gay men that are more disrespectful and contemptuous. Am pleased you called this out.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.

This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.

Inclusion! WOO! 🙄

The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.

That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.

And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.

The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.

Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.

You know... Normal things.

The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".

What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.

Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.

How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?

Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.

Somewhere along the way after the TQ+ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.

The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.

I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.

If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.

The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.

The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

An Islamist tried to behead an Irishman yesterday.

Irish media 👇

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Mother of God. He stabs the victim in the head repeatedly before taking the knife to the man’s neck, before members of the public rush over to stop the attack.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Confirmed: male criminals who say they are trans are still held in women’s prisons.

And why is a minister using language like “assigned male at birth”?

Trans ideology still rules in the Ministry of Justice. 🧵