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Look at me gay pride meme

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Two days later, Twitter isislovecruft tweeted, 'just saw two teenage girls hop the bart turnstile and run up the stairs and start making out and i couldn’t resist the urge to shout BE GAY DO CRIMES and they raised their fists and shouted back STONEWALL WAS A RIOT so i am informing you that the kids are in fact alright.' The tweet received more than 69,000 likes and 12,000 retweets in one year (shown below, right). The tweet received more than 13,000 likes and 6,400 retweets in about one year (shown below, center). Several months later, on June 2nd, Twitter user tweeted an adaptation of a Thomas Nast political cartoon, replacing the sign a skeleton is holding with the phrase. They captioned the image 'two kinds of leftists.' The tweet received more than 1,900 likes and 630 retweets in a year and a half (shown below, left). On January 13th, 2018, Twitter user tweeted the image along with a piece of stencil graffiti quoting Mark Fisher. Three days later, the Tumblr account queergraffiti featured the photograph, which received more than 58,000 notes in three years.

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