The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a true conservative champion, continues to peel back the layers on a disturbing network of radicalism. The FBI's widening investigation has turned its attention to Armed Queers SLC, a pro-gun LGBTQ group. And what they’ve found is, well, exactly what we expected.
The founder of this group, Ermiya Fanaeian, has been identified as a radical trans leftist with deep ties to communist politics. Her Instagram bio, which she so graciously and discreetly scrubbed after Kirk was killed, called for "Revolution + Trans liberation." Her revolutionary ideals apparently extend to violence, which she openly advocated for in a television interview, citing the Stonewall Riots as a prime example of when "riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place." How charming.
This isn’t just some fringe lunatic. This is a radical who has been welcomed with open arms by the political establishment. In 2022, Utah Global Diplomacy, a nonprofit with ties to the State Department, gave Fanaeian an award for "gender equality." Imagine that. A group that gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants—our tax dollars, folks—is busy rewarding an individual who promotes violence. A State Department official has since scrambled to sever ties, which is a little like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted and committed a series of felonies.
And it gets worse. A picture from Fanaeian’s now-deleted Facebook page shows her on stage with none other than then-presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren. It's a real who's who of the far-left.
Fanaeian’s radicalism isn’t new. In 2020, she started the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols, an organization for armed LGBTQ people. A year earlier, she was a founder of a local March for Our Lives chapter, a group that wants to restrict gun rights. It’s a complete ideological flip, a convenient one for someone who now owns an AR-15 and advocates for armed rebellion. It seems she got tired of protesting and decided that a more "disruptive" form of change was in order. This didn't last long, as even Pink Pistols disavowed her, saying she was using their name to promote broader political issues
After her split from Pink Pistols, she founded Armed Queers SLC, a group that hosted a lecture on "queer resistance" just 45 miles from where Charlie Kirk was killed. The flyers for this event featured a woman in ammo belts clutching an AK-47. This is not about self-defense; it's about a fantasy of militant rebellion.
Fanaeian's ideology is no secret. She helped launch a student study group for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), with a curriculum that includes Marx and Lenin, and draws inspiration from the likes of Fidel Castro. PSL, by the way, is backed by a U.S. millionaire with extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The very people who want to tear down our nation are being funded and celebrated.
The fact that these radicals are being celebrated by the political mainstream is a disgrace, but it’s a disgrace that we will expose. The State Department has scrambled to cut ties with the organization that honored this radical. The truth is coming out, and the American people are finally seeing what we’ve known all along: the radical left is a clear and present danger to our way of life. We are the ones who will stand firm against this rising tide of anarchy and violence, and we will do it with the same strength and patriotism that Charlie Kirk embodied every single day.
