Melecio accused the mostly white crowd of having a double standard that weighed the LGBTQ community above those of “people of color.”
“I wish this many people came out to our racial demonstrations and our Black Lives Matter movement,” Melecio told the crowd, which the Columbia Missourian estimated at more than 800.
One man who left the event upset accused organizers of having invented a “race issue” out of a “homophobic attack” by gunman Omar Mateen, who shot and killed 49 people over three hours at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Hey, it’s what they know.