Pro-LGBT protest against a groundbreaking pro-LGBT film from 1999

I am not fully comfortable with either of the sources for this story, but I find it quite disturbing nonetheless if true.

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There was a time not so long ago when the people shouting "f**k you b***h" at a gender-fluid gay filmmaker would have been bigoted right-wing conservatives. But because we currently live in the year 2016, the people who heckled Kimberly Peirce—director of Boys Don't Cry, a groundbreaking film about a transgender man—during her recent appearance at Reed College were far-left students.

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This is from the blog entry quoted in the article:

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The accounts given of these recent protests at Reed College give evidence of enormous vitriol, much of it blatantly misogynist (the repeated use of the word “b***h” for example) directed at a queer, butch film maker and they leave us with an enormous number of questions to face about representational dynamics, clashes between different historical paradigms of queer and transgender life and the expression of queer anger that, instead of being directed at murderous enemies in the mainstream of American political life, has been turned onto independent film makers within the queer and LGBT communities.

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I wish I had better sources on this.

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