Parental brawl in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in front of Saticoy Elementary School. An elementary school where, on Friday, on the occasion of Pride Month – the month of homosexual pride which is celebrated in the month of June – a reading of “The Great Big Book of Families” was organized: a book which describes different types of families , including those where children are raised by single, adoptive, LGBTQ+ parents and even grandparents, so that no child feels different or left out.
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However, some parents didn’t like a choice, so much so that they organized a Facebook group and an Instagram page called Saticoy Elementary Parents, where, defining Pride as “an inappropriate topic for children”, they asked not to send their children to school, even orchestrating a demonstration to boycott the event in a climate already literally overheated by weeks of clashes with the school, culminating in the burning of a rainbow flag carried by an Lgbtq+ teacher. The protest attracted at least 100 people – not all parents of children enrolled in that school, according to the Los Angeles Times – who displayed placards that read: “Leave our children alone”. “The choice made by the parents matters”. And even “There is no pride in soliciting”.
Across the street, a similar number of parents and activists (again unrelated to the pupils) confronted the protesters, even forming a human chain when they attempted to enter the building to block the activities. There were scuffles: exchanges of insults, shoving, throwing water and even a few punches flew, so much so that the police had to separate them.
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The burning of the rainbow flag was reported to the police and an investigation is underway on “hate grounds”. The local school district’s teachers union released a statement saying no educator should go to work in fear: “United Teachers of Los Angeles condemns the behavior of bigoted protesters who attacked a teacher’s gender identity.” . The anti “Pride” had in fact published private information on that person, together with the telephone numbers and e-mails of all school administrators, inviting them to “bombard them with protests”.