Parks and Recreation – Live Laugh Love Do http://livelaughlovedo.com A Super Fun Site Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:50:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Nick Offerman Blasts Bigot Who Used His Parks And Recreation Character For An Anti-Pride Post http://livelaughlovedo.com/culture-and-society/nick-offerman-blasts-bigot-who-used-his-parks-and-recreation-character-for-an-anti-pride-post/ http://livelaughlovedo.com/culture-and-society/nick-offerman-blasts-bigot-who-used-his-parks-and-recreation-character-for-an-anti-pride-post/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:44:01 +0000 http://livelaughlovedo.com/2025/06/03/nick-offerman-blasts-bigot-who-used-his-parks-and-recreation-character-for-an-anti-pride-post/ [ad_1]

“Imagine getting raked over the coals by Ron Swanson himself.”


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Actor Nick Offerman had no patience for an X user who took a Parks and Recreation gif and turned it into an anti-Pride meme. His response turned homophobic imagery posted on the first day of Pride Month into a celebratory moment for the LGBTQ+ community.

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Though Ron Swanson was a self-described libertarian, he rejected bigotry and would have told the government to stay out of queer folks’ business.

The Pride of Nick Offerman

On June 1, right-wing X user @realmflynnJR posted an altered version of a popular GIF of Parks and Recreation character Ron Swanson throwing his computer in a dumpster. Michael Flynn Jr., son of President Donald Trump’s former U.S. national security advisor, replaced the computer with a Pride flag.

“No quotes today,” he wrote. “Just wanted to post how I feel about ‘Pride’ month.”

The next day, Nick Offerman discovered the Pride-hating post and used Swanson’s characteristic gruffness to respond.

“Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb f*ck,” he said in a quote tweet.

Swanson performed this honor for characters Craig and Typhoon in the series finale. Not only that, but he was also an unashamed patron of the local Pawnee gay bar The Bulge.

Tweet reading 'HELL YEA HAPPY PRIDE' with a screenshot of Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation.
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Offerman himself also played a gay character in a highly acclaimed episode of The Last of Us that celebrated the relationship between two older men trapped in a zombie apocalypse together. During his acceptance speech for the Independent Spirit Award he won for that performance, he condemned homophobia.

“Thanks to HBO for having the guts to participate in this storytelling tradition that is truly independent,” he said. “Stories with guts that when homophobic hate comes my way, and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ we say, ‘Because you ask questions like that.’”

That’s one brutal ratio

The difference between the response to Flynn’s post vs. Offerman’s suggests that bigoted hate hasn’t yet entirely overrun X. Flynn Jr. got just 2,800 likes with his gif alongside 2,300 comments, while Offerman gained over 429,000 likes.

LGBTQ+ folks, allies, and Parks and Recreation fans came in droves to praise this fantastic kick off to Pride Month 2025—and, occasionally, to rub it in some deserving faces.

“General Sidney just put the homophobes in their place,” said @trygraptor with an image of another Offerman character.

User @TheAlexisKraft referenced another moment in Parks and Recreation in which Leslie Knope rubs her arm on Swanson’s face.

“I have goosebumps. Feel,” she says.

Meanwhile, @mutedcredits replied to Flynn with Offerman’s response just to make sure the man knows what’s up.

“Every piece of art you have ever enjoyed is made by people who hate you,” they pointed out.

“Imagine getting raked over the coals by Ron Swanson himself,” wrote @sharii_ann. “Dude should just deactivate.”

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Jun 2nd, 2025, 6:25 pm

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Fans of King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation lost a legend today. Actor Jonathan Joss, who played Ken Hotate on Parks and voiced John Redcorn in King of the Hill, was shot and killed in San Antonio in an act of an alleged hate crime.

Joss and his husband reportedly went back to check the mail at their old home that the two still owned. According to Joss’ husband, their neighbor threatened them and it resulted in the neighbor shooting and fatally wounding Joss. Tristan Kern de Gonzales, Joss’ husband, posted on Joss’ Facebook page about the altercation.

“My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done,” Gonzales wrote.

The post goes on to say that the harassment that Gonzales and Joss faced was, in Gonzales’ eyes, “openly homophobic.” Gonzales shared that the couple returned to the home to find a skull of their former dog in their mailbox along with the pet’s harness. The couple were grieving over what they witnessed and Gonzales claims that a man approached them.

“He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.” Gonzales ended his post with a powerful message: “He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.”

Fans have been sharing their love for Joss and his work today.

This is a horrifying story and our hearts go out to Joss’ family and friends.

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