On June 11th, about a dozen Proud Boys and sympathizers stormed the San Lorenzo Drag Queen Story Hour hosted by the library and featuring local drag artist Panda Dulce. Proud Boys gathered outside before storming the event, screaming slurs and verbally harassing performers, library staff and parents attending the event with their children, with the goal of shutting down the event and intimidating parents into disavowing drag and by proxy LGBTQ visibility. After disrupting the event and being told they would be charged with trespassing, Proud Boys exited the facility, shook hands with the Police outside, and continued their harassment with an outdoor megaphone rally. One Bay Area Proud Boy prominently photographed and circulated on social media wearing a t-shirt reading “Kill Your Local Pedophile” is Martinez, CA white supremacist Ian Donald Kearns.
On the alt-tech platform Gab Ian Kearns goes by “@MyWhiteLifeMatters” and shares openly segregationist pro-KKK and neo-nazi content expressing general hatred against anyone not straight, cisgender, white, Christian, and aligned with his neo-fascist worldview.
The Free Press Project (@FreePressProj) was quick to point out that Kearns was a fixture at the Lafayette El Curtola overpass Trump rallies over the course of several months, where he attempted to intimidate a local student journalist for The Diablo Valley College Inquirer, and was noticeably violent. Kearns appears in various photographs over the course of the El Curtola protests and appears to have been involved in the behind the scenes organization of various similar overpass rallies and flag waves in Contra Costa and Alameda county.
Kearns was also an attendee of the Santa Rosa “Proud of Your Baby” Planned Parenthood harassment rally organized by the Bay Area Proud Boys that coincided with a twin San Jose rally which featured Straight Pride organizer and Constitution Party of California figurehead Donald James Grundmann. Kearns was also spotted at a recent Proud Boy disruption of a local Davis school board meeting over mask mandates, accompanying Sacramento Proud Boys like arms dealer and closeted nazi Brandon Revering and Placerville “Hangtown” Proud Boys. Attendees of the school board meetings noted Proud Boys screamed slurs, praised National Socialism (Nazism), flashed white supremacist hand gestures, and harassed people leaving the meeting outside.
Ian Donald Kearns seems intent to continue his anti-LGBTQ and racist harassment, his attendance at events including Planned Parenthood harassment, local school board intimidation as well as threatening drag artists and parents taking their children to a library storytime event, shows he is committed to materializing his fascist politics through violence (which he anonymously fantasizes about constantly on online racist cesspools such as Gab). These are the same tactics fascists have employed since Mussolini’s blackshirted squadristi, yet instead of crushing labor unions local Proud Boys are attempting to shut down local access to reproductive and gender affirming healthcare. With their attempts to physically repress drag culture, and by proxy the entirety of LGBTQ+ existence from positions of visibility, they are hoping to turn parents against drag and push potentially questioning children back into the closet. For the stated reasons above, we believe that the various communities Ian Donald Kearns regularly targets and harasses should be alerted to his identity, so as to impede his ability to engage in organized hate in the future.
We ask that Martinez residents as well as Bay Area residents in general alert their neighbors and communities to Ian Donald Kearns and the Bay Area Proud Boys. Wherever they go we go, support and defend your local Drag and LGBTQ+ events and spaces.
Address: 188 Village Pl Martinez, CA
Tattoos and Identifying Features:
Most Recent Employment: Kearns has posted describing himself as a full-time student veteran enrolled in Martinez Adult Education, and listed work at the local Martinez VA Health Care Systems as his most recent employment.
Vehicle: White Volkswagen Jetta, CA Plate #80756 DV. Various USMC, anti-Biden, and anti-immigrant bumper stickers on the rear window
Please send any and all information regarding Ian Donald Kearns, the Bay Area Proud Boys, and any other local fascists and white supremacists to bay161[@]riseup[dot]com