A popular YouTube star announced Monday that he’d bought a town in Michigan and renamed it “Gay Hell” in protest of President Trump’s decision to prevent U.S. embassies from flying rainbow flags during the month of June — LGBTQ pride month.
A popular YouTube star made a Twitter announcement on Monday that he’d bought a town in Michigan and renamed it “Gay Hell” in protest of President Trump’s decision to prevent U.S. embassies from flying rainbow flags during the month of June — LGBTQ pride month.
“Ahead of pride month Trump’s administration put a ban on embassy’s flying pride flags,” Daniel tweeted, explaining that his first act as as owner of the town would be to give it an LGBTQ-friendly name. His second would be to instate a new law: pride flags are the only flags that are allowed to fly in Gay Hell.so as of today, I am now the owner of Hell, Michigan. I bought the whole town.The only flags allowed to fly are pride. pic.twitter.
In an interview with NBC News, though, Daniel said his remark about the flag restriction was actually just a joke. He even told CNN that he had doubled down on the satire by proclaiming to ban heterosexuals from Gay Hell, too. “I have a young audience who is 16 to 24 who would not be involved in politics if it wasn’t in a funny or meme way," said Daniel to NBC News."I'm just trying to have fun and get my audience politically active."
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