Two Girls Kissing on a Homecoming Float Enraged Right Wing Moms

A school board meeting allowed both sides to air their views, but little appears settled.

BY DONALD PADGETT
SEPTEMBER 24 2021 1:20 PM EDT

A contentious school board meeting was held in Tennessee on Monday night after a video released on social media by a local chapter of Moms for Liberty showed two girls briefly kissing on a Pride float in their local high school’s homecoming parade. The conservative group also accused folks on the float of groping and even exposing a breast. Indy Pride, the local LGBTQ+ group responsible for the float, said the parents were overreacting to the kiss and denied the other allegations.

“WCS parents, did you know yesterday’s Independence High School’s homecoming parade included an LGBTQ+ float, that was paraded in front of Thompson Station Elementary & Middle School students, featuring two girls kissing?” the Moms For Liberty chapter in Williamson County, Tennessee tweeted last week.

The post went on to suggest a youth in the parade was handing out bisexual “recruitment” cards, though those just ended uo being information pamphlets about Bi Week.

Sophomore student Spencer Lyst, the president and founder of Indy Pride, denied the allegations.

“The information shared by this group is completely and utterly false and disrespectful,” Lyst told the Tennessean.

In a letter to the school board members before Monday’s meeting, Lyst said the kiss was only a peck and came in response to the “multitude of booing and discrediting” of the students and float.

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