Proud Boys Appropriate Kilts Sold By Pro-LGBTQ Store, and They're Not Happy About It

Verillas, an online LGBTQ clothing retailer, has donated money to the NAACP after seeing their kilts on Proud Boys at a pro-Trump rally on Saturday, Pink News reports.

Owners of the clothing line saw photos online of their distinct yellow and black kilts on members of the hate group and were reportedly horrified. Instead of simply denouncing Proud Boys, Verillas owner Allister Greenbrier explained, "It felt existentially wrong to be associated with that group of people and the first thing I realized is that taking gains from them was unacceptable."

We weren't satisfied with neutralizing the situation, we had to counter it," said Greenbrier.

Proud Boys took part in Saturday's rally, the Million MAGA March, where twenty-three people were arrested and four suffered life-threatening stab wounds. The rally was to protest President Trump's loss of the recent Presidential election, which he and his supporters have claimed – without providing any substantial evidence – was stolen by Democrats.

A similar protest took place in DC last month after the election. In response, many on social media used #ProudBoys to troll the fascist group and flood Twitter with pro-LGBTQ pictures and messages. This goes back to the September 30 debate between Trump and President-elect Joe Biden when Trump refused to denounce the Proud Boys, instead instructing them to "stand back and stand by." In response, actor and gay icon George Takei took to Twitter urging users to take "pictures of themselves making out with each other or doing very gay things" with the tag #ProudBoys to "mess them up real bad."