(Mother Jones) — Caption: Volunteers from the DC chapter of Gays Against Guns dress up as Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) at the Town Hall for Our Lives event in Sterling, Virginia, on April 7, 2018.


On a Saturday in early April, 200 people gathered at the public library in Sterling, Virginia, cramming into a meeting room that might have comfortably fit about half that number. As attendees made their way to their seats—or, for many, their standing spots—they were greeted by volunteers from a group called Gays Against Guns, who had dressed up in drag as Rep. Barbara Comstock, the area’s Republican member of Congress. They handed out fact sheets lambasting the congresswoman’s gun-friendly voting record as they mockingly asked passersby to reelect her. They shouted, “Smile and say ‘NRA’!” whenever people stopped to take their picture.

Click to continue reading. By Kara Voght – Apr 18, 2018