Right-Wingers Balk at State Senator’s Shirtless Photo from Folsom
metroweekly.comstate of emergency” back in July. “is #Monkeypox over like Covid, Scottie?” tweeted a user trying to point out Wiener’s alleged hypocrisy.“So you’re showing California is no longer under a state of emergency??” tweeted another.Mixed martial artist Jake Shields, who became an outspoken opponent of COVID shutdowns, slammed Wiener on Twitter.“Why did you close my gym down during covid but allow gay orgies during monkeypox?” asked Shields in response to the picture.He later followed up with another tweet, writing: “The same politician who kept your kid out of school for two years because COVID is attending gay orgies during monkeypox.
Feel free to Google Folsom street fair and see the wonderful delights he’s enjoying.”Of course, some Twitter users defended the senator’s right to attend the Folsom Street Fair and even complimented him on his physique.
For his part, Wiener dismisses the bulk of criticism as simply noise from “right-wing trolls” who have been targeting him for years due to political disagreements.
He notes that opponents have repeatedly reposted an older picture of him at Folsom in 2016, dressed in a leather vest, to attack him or paint him as a sexual deviant.“This is about demonizing me, as a gay man in elected office, but also demonizing our community,” Wiener told Metro Weekly in an interview. “Folsom Street Fair is an amazing community event that brings so many people together.
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