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This little boy<\/a> and a bunch of balloons defeated bigots at Pride<\/b><\/p>\n

Homophobes in Madison, Wisconsin, were warded off by a little boy<\/a> and a handful of colourful balloons at the annual Pride celebrations on August 9.<\/span><\/p>\n

The powerful image of love overcoming hate was posted on Reddit<\/a> yesterday, and shows a little boy<\/a> obscuring a Christian protest group’s anti-gay<\/a> messages with a large bunch of rainbow helium balloons in the shape of stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographer <\/span>Lars Koch explained how the boy<\/a>, with a little help from those around him, stopped the homophobes in their tracks, resulting in the protest being abandoned after around 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘This little boy<\/a> had a balloon and was holding it in front of one of the signs, but it wasn’t doing much good,’ he said, speaking to Gay Star News.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Then an adult, presumably his parent, came over and gave him a lot more to better obscure the signs.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘The bigot tried to move his sign away, but the boy<\/a> was persistent and kept it blocked.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as the protest group tried to move their banner, displaying the words ‘homosex incompatible with Christianity’ alongside a list of Bible verses, the boy<\/a> continued to walk in front of them, obscuring the sign’s message until the sign-holder finally gave up.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Shortly after the man<\/a> bundled up his sign and the boy<\/a> moved on to the next bigot,’ Lars said.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘As this was happening the crowd was singing ‘We shall overcome’ so it was quite cinematic.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Pretty soon the rest of the bigots were rolling up their signs and heading home.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post This little boy and a bunch of balloons defeated bigots at Pride<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mel Spencer<\/p>\n

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