Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley help raise bail for 'Straight Pride' counterprotesters

Sept. 3, 2019, 3:15 PM EDT
By Tim Fitzsimons

The three dozen counterprotesters arrested at Saturday's Boston Straight Pride event — billed as an opportunity to "embrace the vibrancy" of heterosexuality — received high-profile help when Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tweeted a fundraiser link to help raise their bail money.

“One way to support the local LGBTQ community impacted by Boston’s white supremacist parade?” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. “Contribute to the Bail Fund for the activists who put themselves on the line protecting the Boston community.”

Ocasio-Cortez noted that leftover funds would be donated to the Massachusetts Bail Fund and GLASS, a local LGBTQ youth center.

Link to tweet

Pressley, who represents the Boston area, tweeted her thanks "to the allies & accomplices who stood in the gap & laid their bodies on the line today."

On the day of the parade, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the protest on Twitter as an “I-Struggle-With-Masculinity” parade.

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