BOISE, ID – Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (when they attempted to crash a Pride Fest and were charged with conspiracy to riot), neo-fascists in Idaho still are laughingly falling on their faces when they try to come at the LGBTQ+ community.

This weekend an event was held in Boise called Hetero Awesome which was organized by a group of the same name. According to their website they are, “a relentless tribe of truth-seekers, forged with steel spines and unshakable resolve to defend traditional family values against a world drowning in mushy lies.” Hetero Awesome was promoted on White Supremacist podcasts earlier this month hosted by Idaho transplants Dave Reilly, a one-time member of Identity Evropa who believes in creating a monarchy in America, and Rebecca Crockett (formerly Hargraves), who used to be the partner on another neo-fascist podcast of Matt Christiansen, until a falling out last year over money. On the show, Hetero Awesome spokesperson Mark Fitzpatrick, a retired police officer that owns a right-wing Idaho bar (despite the Bible condemning drunkenness) said the event was part of an attempt to make June, “Heterosexual Awesomeness Month,” and denounced homosexuality as, “demonic,” while referring to the LGBTQ pride movement as, “wicked.”

Reilly and Crockett covered the two-day event that local news reported brought out “dozens” of people. On Saturday, the last day of the event, a performer took the stage and said they were a former Army Ranger, putting on a Ranger beret to applause. They then began putting on a jacket adorned with pro-LGBTQ+ patches and pins while performing a song that attacked the theme of the festival with lyrics like, “Elephants taking pride of tranny suicide”. When organizers realized what was being sung about, the video switched to a prompt for the event. Another video showed Fitzpatrick rushing the stage, taking the microphone and trying to take the performer off the stage. One of the attendees, not realizing what was going on, attempted to protect the performer by punching Fitzpatrick and getting into a scuffle with him.

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“He wasn’t aware of what was happening and thought I might have been a random guy pulling the mic,” Fitzpatrick said about his attacker to reporters. “He was stopping me, thinking he was defending the fest.”

The performer and their friends were asked to leave and as of the time of this publishing they have not been identified.

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