Fighting Hate with Memes: Pop Culture Party Against Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church's latest visit to Long Beach, which coincided with the city's annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival, sparked the Party Against Westboro, an Internet-driven, pop culture-centric meet-up that drowned out antagonism with memes. Read more in “Party Against Westboro: Group Counters Fred Phelps' Notorious Church with Absurdism and Pop Culture References” by Liz Ohanesian. All photos by Christopher Victorio.

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