The North Face features 'real-life homosexual' drag queen for the second year straight



The North Face, a company that sells products such as outdoor clothing and gear, is once again promoting the LGBT movement by featuring drag queen Pattie Gonia in a video and advertising a "Summer of Pride."

"Hi, it's me Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual," the drag queen said in a video, adding, "today I'm here with the North Face. We are here to invite you to come out," the gay man said, pausing before adding, "in nature with us!"

"We like to call this little tour, the Summer of Pride. This tour has everything: hiking, community, art, lesbians, lesbians making art. Last year we gay sashayed across the nation and celebrated pride," the man said. He concluded the ad by inviting people to "come outside and celebrate the beautiful LGHGTV community."

The North Face indicated that there will be a Summer of Pride event in Salt Lake City, Utah, in July and in Atlanta, Georgia, in September. "For the second year in a row...@thenorthface has teamed up with... @pattiegonia (they/she)," an Instagram post declares. "Join us for the Summer of Pride and get in on this party."

This marks the brand's second straight year working with Pattie Gonia to promote the LGBT movement.

"Nature let's you be who you are, even gay," the drag queen said in a video last year. "We're traveling all the gay across America, and everyone's invited."

The National Audubon Society enlisted the environmentalist drag queen last year to promote climate alarmism in a bizarre video in which Pattie Gonia could be seen clad in a winged costume.

\u201cThis #PrideMonth, Audubon partnered with drag queen and intersectional environmentalist Pattie Gonia to bring you #BirdsTellUs: The Song of the Meadowlark, a message of hope for the future of our planet as we face climate change\u2014if we choose to listen: https://t.co/RGHzJTXGgS\u201d
— Audubon Society (@Audubon Society) 1655151600

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80-year-old woman stabbed multiple times in broad daylight while loading groceries in supermarket parking lot. Worried witness asks, 'Where are you safe?'



An 80-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times in a southern New Jersey supermarket parking lot while she was loading groceries into her car late Sunday morning, WTXF-TV reported.

What are the details?

Mary Jacobs told the station she saw the "obviously scared" victim sitting on the ground in the Acme parking lot on West Nicholson Road in Audubon "with blood coming out of her side" as others rushed to her and tried applying pressure to her wounds.

"I don't know why he would do this to me," a tearful Jacobs recalled the victim saying, according to WTXF. "I just don't know why."

Image source: WTXF-TV video screenshot

Officials told the station the victim was in stable condition and recovering at Cooper University Hospital.

What happened to the suspect?

Police soon after arrested 40-year-old Altirik Higgins of Philadelphia, WTXF said, adding that he was charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses. Altirik was taken to the Camden County jail, according to the Camden County prosecutor's office.

The motive for the stabbing is unclear, the station said.

'Where are you safe?'

Acme shopper and Audubon native Amy Paratore told the station she's "surprised that something like this happened in Audubon. I've lived here my whole life, and you usually feel safe coming to this store."

Stephanie Moore added to WTXF that she shops at the Acme "all the time by myself, so now it's got me a little leery ... if somebody's stabbing people ... coming out of a grocery store, then where are you safe?"

Moore also told the station the stabbing is "very shocking because this area is not like that. It's very quiet, very quaint."

Another woman outside the supermarket told WTXF the stabbing makes her scared for her kids and the elderly in her family.

"It's crazy that we can't even go shopping, and our elderly can't get their groceries," she told the station. "The lady couldn't come out of the grocery store without worrying about getting stabbed or hurt."

Environmentalist drag queen helps National Audubon Society promote climate change alarmism: 'Nature can be a part of your lives as queer people'



The National Audubon Society has joined forces with a drag queen to promote climate change alarmism.

"For Pride Month, Audubon partnered with drag queen and intersectional environmentalist Pattie Gonia, to bring you Birds Tell Us: The Song of the Meadowlark, a message of hope for the future of our planet," Audubon noted.

In a video, Pattie Gonia, who identifies on Instagram as a "professional homosexual," can be seen clad in a winged costume.

"Birds tells us ... that the climate is changing," Gonia says as music plays during the video.

In response to a tweet about the project John Hawkins commented, "You guys desperately need to hire a regular person to run stuff like this by in the future because apparently no one there is in touch with what normal human beings think."

\u201c@audubonsociety You guys desperately need to hire a regular person to run stuff like this by in the future because apparently no one there is in touch with what normal human beings think\u201d
— Audubon Society (@Audubon Society) 1655151600

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh tweeted an image of Pattie Gonia and remarked, "Serious question: why do drag queens always dress like either the evil step mother in a Disney film or a character from Nightmare Before Christmas? Is this what they think women look like? Have they ever seen a woman in real life?" In another tweet he added, "And how is this not considered at least as offensive as black face?"

Audubon noted on its website that "Pattie Gonia, the drag persona of Wyn Wiley, is an environmentalist who uses her platform to highlight issues around climate change and inclusivity in the outdoors" and that "Pattie wants more LGBTQ+ people to feel empowered to engage with nature and the outdoors."

"Nature can be a part of your lives as queer people. You don’t have to run to a big city to find yourself!" Pattie Gonia said.

"The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation," according to its website.

Birds Tell Us: The Song of the Meadowlark www.youtube.com

'The racist legacy many birds carry': Lengthy Washington Post feature gets hilarious reaction from Tucker Carlson. And he's not alone.



So, the Washington Post published a recent story with the following headline, "The racist legacy many birds carry."

Yes, birds.

Thank you to the heroes of @washingtonpost for highlighting the legacy of racist birds. We must decolonize those a… https://t.co/jwDSKzHppw

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) 1623802786.0

In fairness, it's not so much that the Post is saying certain birds are racist, as in wearing-red-MAGA-hats racist, which, of course, would be a cardinal sin of sorts:

Washington Post Racist Birds of America... https://t.co/kNZZfHHJMn

— Ronna DeBrucki (@DebruckiRonna) 1623736034.0

No, the Post's piece focuses on a debate on whether to change as many as 150 names of birds that "honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy."

More from the story:

The Bachman's sparrow, Wallace's fruit dove and other winged creatures bear the names of men who fought for the Southern cause, stole skulls from Indian graves for pseudoscientific studies that were later debunked, and bought and sold Black people. Some of these men stoked violence and participated in it without consequence.

Even John James Audubon's name is fraught in a nation embroiled in a racial reckoning. Long the most recognized figure in North American birding for his detailed drawings of the continent's species, he was also an enslaver who mocked abolitionists working to free Black people. Some of his behavior is so shameful that the 116-year-old National Audubon Society — the country's premier bird conservation group, with 500 local chapters — hasn't ruled out changing its name. An oriole, warbler and shearwater all share it.

"I am deeply troubled by the racist actions of John James Audubon and recognize how painful that legacy is for Black, Indigenous and people of color who are part of our staff, volunteers, donors and members," interim chief executive Elizabeth Gray said in a statement in May, the Post reported. "Although we have begun to address this part of our history, we have a lot more to unpack."

The Post's story on the matter spans nearly 2,000 words, which no doubt involved a lot of effort. But the clear premise is the same as numerous other campaigns in the wake of George Floyd's death and the riots that followed over the summer of 2020: To cleanse the American landscape of any hint of past real or alleged racism, no matter how far removed from the present day.

And that involved toppling and defacing and removing statues of Founding Fathers, a push to scrub the names of not-woke-enough-figures such as — believe it or not — Abraham Lincoln from school buildings in San Francisco, and canceled sales of Dr. Seuss children's books.

Now birds must be renamed, apparently.

How are folks reacting?

Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a very funny segment on the matter Tuesday night, which you can view at the bottom of this story.

Others did the best they could to also make fun of the growing controversy. Outspoken podcaster Adam Carolla presumably had the Post's piece in mind when he tweeted the following Wednesday:

A group of crows is called a "murder" and a group of ravens is called an "unkindness." Yet a group of owls is call… https://t.co/X3TJ3WI6hk

— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) 1623855547.0

Others just couldn't help themselves, either:

  • "Soon, we will only be able to refer to all birds as they or them. The ⁦⁦@washingtonpost⁩ has too many researchers," one commenter wrote. "Parrots. There. I said it and I'm glad I said it."
  • "A bird pooped on my car the other day. I thought that it was because I parked near a telephone line, but it was white supremacy all this time," another user quipped. "I'm so tired of all this oppression."
  • "Birds are pretty racist... But not as racist as the combined hatred ducks and beavers have against the platypus," another commenter noted.
  • "That bird with the racist look in its eye," another user observed. "You can totally tell!"

Here's Carlson's reaction:

Tucker: We must dismantle all systems of bird-supremacyyoutu.be