So, to the surprise of nobody whatsoever, it seems like the whole protest was astroturfed by this group and their fellow travelers. Sounds like yet another cookie cutter progressive/social-justice-y political advocacy group. It's kind of eerie how all the rhetoric on their site sounds like they could have been airlifted in from any college campus anywhere else in the country – just fill in the blanks with references to {state} and {local city}.
The next question that leaps to my mind is where this "Forward Montana" group is getting its funding from. It's obvious they're behind the blatant efforts to force-meme Zach as trans AOC.
The description of their
Transcendent Joy zine makes me wonder if it's this Izzy character who's responsible for pushing the "queer joy" shibboleth that Zach, Tony, and the rest have been repeating so much lately.
Also slightly... amused? that among the entire staff of this "queer" advocacy group, there appear to be exactly two (2) biological males. The rest are all too-quirky-by-half women and they-thems.