A group of Pride parade-goers had choice words for Austin-based media mogul Joe Rogan as they marched past his comedy club on Sixth Street.
"[Expletive] Joe Rogan, [expletive] Joe Rogan!" Queerbomb attendees chanted as they passed by Comedy Mothership.
Queerbomb is a local anti-corporate grassroots Pride event founded 16 years ago to ensure Austin had a Pride event that "was for and by the community," the core organizer of the LGBTQ+ group, who goes by Roadkill, said. This year's parade took place on June 7.
Roadkill said the chant against Rogan was impromptu, and that the event itself is about "queer joy as radical resistance."
"Many seemed to have gotten some joy from their message to Joe Rogan," Roadkill noted.
The parade-goers chanted as they passed the venue, holding Pride flags and posters. Some people appeared to be recording the parade as it passed in front of the venue.
A video of the spontaneous anti-Rogan moment made its way to Reddit, where one commenter, who claimed to have marched in the parade, said attendees started to shout at Rogan because of what they referred to as his past transphobic remarks.
In the comments, a Substack post by self-described independent LGBTQ+ journalist Erin Reed was linked. Reed highlighted a conversation "Jackass" comedian Steve-O had with Rogan on his "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast in which the podcaster implied many transgender people are "[expletive] perverts."
"I genuinely think there’s people that feel like they are in the wrong biological sex, right?" Rogan said.
"But there’s also people that are [expletive] perverts, and they have a thing called autogynephilia, and what that is, is they get a turn on by pretending to be a woman, they get excited by it, and they want to be around women," he continued.
Rogan made several other comments within that conversation and others that Reed and other LGBTQ+ writers and advocates have deemed transphobic.