First, credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the crucial tip, PLEASE follow, they’ll be doing a podcast on this soon.
Here’s what you need to know:
🔻 Armed Queers SLC is under investigation for possible foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
🔻 Their leader, Ermiya Fanaeian, was recognized by a State Dept–affiliated NGO, Utah Global Diplomacy, as a recipient of the “7 for 17” Award for advancing the UN’s 17 Goals
🔻 Utah Global Diplomacy has since scrubbed Fanaeian’s presence from their website. Unknown when this purge happened. The receipts remain.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: State Department & UN ties to Armed Queers SLC leader now confirmed 🚨🚨
First, credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the crucial tip, PLEASE follow, they’ll be doing a podcast on this soon.
Here’s what you need to know:
🔻 Armed Queers SLC is under investigation… pic.twitter.com/7P7yoAVN44
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
This is what pops up when you search for her name in connection to Utah Global Diplomacy. All scrubbed. pic.twitter.com/5YCXJuKMe1
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
And, yes, she was an organizer with Armed Queers SLC. pic.twitter.com/Izjtk5t3E3
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Per the 990 form with Utah Global Diplomacy (EIN 876128308), the nonprofit is a partner with the US State Department to cultivate emerging leaders and diplomacy initiatives.
In other words, she was selected to “help shape U.S. Foreign relations.” Their words, not mine. pic.twitter.com/60krjc4m0i
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Utah Global Diplomacy reports receiving most of its income in government grants. pic.twitter.com/s38Uq6948n
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
I managed to pull one of the scrubbed pages off the Internet Archive … and it recognized her work in “gender equality” (Sustainable Development Goal #5). Specifically for trans youth. pic.twitter.com/SsKWR83dsT
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Let me emphasize.
SLC Armed Queers is not “adjacent” to the honor that Ermiya Fanaeian got from Utah Global Diplomacy.
Utah Global Diplomacy specifically awarded her for her work with trans people, of which SLC Armed Queers is key.
This may be why they scrubbed their pages.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
I’m trying to trace the exact award (unknown if they get money from the State Department directly or if it’s granted through Utah state), but it seems that they’ve applied for awards at the Utah level. pic.twitter.com/XeU8zNhZ9g
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Their entire 7 for 17 site seems to be scrubbed. pic.twitter.com/vShgEd2OmB
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Very ironically, Fanaeian also appears to have co-founded the Utah chapter of March for Our Lives. @davidhogg111 if you’re serious about gun control, you. might want to kick out this person who also runs an armed, pro-gun group. pic.twitter.com/ac3uCfqRsd
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
She specifically works to arm queer and trans communities for “communal militant defense.” pic.twitter.com/Iws6oEZ9Lc
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
None of this is to suggest that the State Department had any involvement in the assassination.
But this IS the kind of person who is picked from a young age on to staff the State Department. @EagleEdMartin FYI.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Iranian. https://t.co/BHiVYnRRZz
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
Source for above video: https://t.co/ISCoxsxUbb
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
The journey continues here: https://t.co/QZqbssMNHA
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
She’s a full-blown “trans Marxist.”https://t.co/PrLWI4jQlj pic.twitter.com/DppZD32VzL
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) September 16, 2025
🧵 There’s a lot of talk about Armed Queers SLC after Charlie Kirk’s assassination—especially since they suddenly deleted their Instagram account.
This thread explains who they are and what they stand for. 👇 pic.twitter.com/I0DvfAycRR
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 15, 2025
1️⃣ Origins and Purpose
Armed Queers Salt Lake City (AQSLC) is a socialist LGBTQ+ collective founded in summer 2020 during the nationwide George Floyd protest wave.📍 Based in Salt Lake City, it grew out of local Black Lives Matter marches and queer mutual-aid networks.… pic.twitter.com/leMhAy87n6
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 15, 2025
3️⃣ Guns as Core Strategy
Unlike most LGBTQ+ groups, AQSLC openly embraces gun ownership.
They argue that gun-control laws often disarm working-class and marginalized people while far-right extremists stay armed.
Members say carrying firearms provides a visible deterrent against… pic.twitter.com/Ar6lNNYAra— Jammles (@jammles9) September 15, 2025
Ermiya Fanaeian also started the Pink Pistols chapter in Salt Lake City before starting Queers SLC pic.twitter.com/qRnwZ03b70
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 16, 2025
“My name is Ermiya Fanaeian, and I am a student at Salt Lake School for The Performing Arts. For the last three years I have worked as a sociopolitical organizer for the Utah Pride Center, and The ACLU of Utah.
“My activism work as revolved around a multiplicity of political… pic.twitter.com/Yohoz1z9yl
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 16, 2025
Ermiya confounded the Utah chapter of March for Our Live in March 2018 which was a youth led gun violence prevention movement.
His stance pivoted around mid 2020 when he found the Pink Pistols SLC
“Pulse, for me, was a huge pivot point, wanting to shift my understanding of… pic.twitter.com/aAd6bO9kZK
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 16, 2025
Their focus was arming young people in their 20’s. pic.twitter.com/dD1l6I8EZR
— Jammles (@jammles9) September 16, 2025
“Armed Queers SLC” is now under FBI investigation as an extended network related to Charlie’s killer.
The founder of Armed Queers SLC is also an organizer for PSL, which is funded by Neville Singham and the Chinese Communist Party.
Why did Armed Queers SLC delete their… pic.twitter.com/8ZfG6oKUO6
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) September 16, 2025
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Armed Queers SLC co-hosted educational workshops with Elm Fork branch of the John Brown Gun Club, the trans antifa perpetuators behind the July 4 Alvarado ICE facility shooting. Ermiya Fanaeian appears to have promoted these on her private Instagram.
I’m shaking… https://t.co/ooM6l0Dcud
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2025
You really need to chat with @tx4kids , she knows all about this Texas Branch .
Lynette Sharp ,(who housed Ben Song the Antifa man who shot the ice agent ) spoke at our school board meetings.
Antifa is huge here because of the conservative policies that have been implemented…— 🇺🇲🥓Texas Morning Coffee ☕️ (@BYECAHELLOTEXAS) September 16, 2025
UPDATE 9/17/2025
A State Department source confirmed to Blaze News that any ties to Utah Global Diplomacy, “which existed indirectly via an external implementor, are being completely severed and dismantled.”
This could prove greatly consequential for the NGO, as the bulk of its funding takes the form of government grants.
“We are taking aggressive action to ensure that any implementor that has any relationship whatsoever with this radical organization is completely cut off from any State Department engagement,” said the source. (Read more: The Blaze, 9/17/2025)