Update – September 29th 08:57am:
Sadie Dupuis of the band Speedy Ortiz has given some context as to her unwanted involvement in one of the initial tweets, as well as provided some context on the man waging the campaign against McCoy:
dear @metalsucks, thank you for reporting on intolerance, but it would be cool if you could do so responsibly pic.twitter.com/x53L2vl25z
— sadie dupuis (@sad13) September 28, 2015
Original Story:
Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy has come under fire for alleged past usage of homophobic slurs on social media. A petition to stop the band from playing any future ‘Pitchfork Music Festival‘ was launched here as a result, while various tweets of McCoy apparently using the slur can be found below:
Besties to the homophobic end? @sad13 @deafheavenband pic.twitter.com/GiKhR3afkg
— SҺคՆՆ૦ω R૯ωคՐძς (@shallowrewards) September 26, 2015
.@sad13 pic.twitter.com/XFgSt75bGh
— SҺคՆՆ૦ω R૯ωคՐძς (@shallowrewards) September 27, 2015
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