Mike Pence Greeted with Gay Disco Protest in Ireland

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Mike Pence Greeted with Gay Disco Protest in Ireland

Irish protest echoes guerilla actions outside Pence’s home in Washington DC.
By Matt Baume
September 04 2019 12:57 PM EDT


Irish civil rights groups may not have been able to keep Mike Pence out of the country, but at least they could throw a good party while he was there.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Dáil, a house of the Irish legislature, for the fittingly named “Disco at the Dáil” on September 3rd. Participants waved rainbow flags, wore masks with Mike Pence’s face, and danced to music by The Village People and RuPaul.

Colm O. Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International in Ireland, said LGBTQ+ organizers in Washington, D.C. staged similar protests after Donald Trump’s election.

“Today was a both a celebration of who we are in Ireland now, as well as a show of solidarity to those being hurt by the Trump/ Pence administration’s policies,” Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland, tells Out in a statement.

Organizers called the event “a celebration of all the people that Pence and Trump’s cruel policies are hurting; women, refugees, migrants, and [LGBTQ+] people,” while Amnesty added that the event was intended to show Pence that he can’t go back to the USA and say that Ireland supports him.”

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