{"id":120458,"date":"2023-10-29T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120458"},"modified":"2023-10-29T23:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:55:34","slug":"the-queer-punks-ready-to-piss-in-ron-desantis-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120458","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Queer Punks Ready to Piss in Ron DeSantis\u2019 Backyard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/with-fest-queer-punks-are-ready-to-piss-in-ron-desantis-backyard?source=email&amp;via=desktop\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/with-fest-queer-punks-are-ready-to-piss-in-ron-desantis-backyard?source=email&amp;via=desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>: &#8220;It\u2019s become something of a rite of passage for punk rock bands across North America to load up their vans and drive down to Florida every October to play\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefestfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fest<\/a>, a long-running independent punk music festival in the quaint landlocked college town of Gainesville. Attendees and performers fly from around the world for the weekend bash, now in its 21st year, to reunite with Fest friends, mosh, and guzzle Pabst Blue Ribbon. Decidedly more small-time and community-based than bigger punk blowouts like Riot Fest or Punk Rock Bowling, Fest has cultivated a reputation as a safe, inclusive event where homophobia, transphobia, racism, and other prejudices are shut down by a crowd of progressive punks&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeSantis\u2019 legislative assault on LGBTQ+ people in Florida has prompted conversations among diehard Fest fans, and especially queer and trans attendees and performers who, like Fureigh, began to question if they\u2019d be safe there. People began to ask: Will the Fest go on?&nbsp;<em>Should<\/em>&nbsp;it go on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pondering those questions with The Daily Beast, Fest founder Tony Weinbender said that on social media people pressed him about canceling or moving the festival. Ultimately, though, neither option was ever on the table for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t we do an event where you can bring thousands of people that oppose bills like this?\u201d Weinbender says. \u201cThe point is you\u2019re supposed to try to fight these bills.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast: &#8220;It\u2019s become something of a rite of passage for punk rock bands across North America to load up their vans and drive down to Florida every October to play\u00a0The Fest, a long-running independent punk music festival in the quaint landlocked college town of Gainesville. Attendees and performers fly from around the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120459,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120458\/revisions\/120459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}