I'm going to an event soon and the last time I was there there were some of those awful street preachers with megaphones shouting bigotry. They're a nuisance and nobody wants them there, but it's a public festival and evidentially they're allowed to be there.
I tried looking online (
)and most of the advice was stupid lib shit, ranging from, "Call the cops and tell them they're violating statute blah blah blah" or, "Just ignore them, you can't change their minds and engaging just feeds their persecution complex." Obviously the cops do nothing, I don't care about changing their minds or what they think I just want to shut them up. But I also don't want to get arrested and if possible, it'd be nice to avoid disturbing the other people further.
Most likely, I'm just gonna have to endure it, but I thought I'd raise the question for brainstorming bc it feels like a common enough situation that other people will encounter it too. Best I can think is screaming something back at them 
UPDATE: I ended up just wearing a bunch of pride stuff and then they weren't even there lol
This brings back to mind an ancient meme, you ain't got no pancake mix. So basically some hateful street preacher was preaching nonsense and some college kid kept interrupting with accusations of no pancake mix and lying about it, since seriously that's what street preachers might as well be saying when you're busy minding your own business, absolute ridiculous nonsense.
When I lived in the city some of those 'street preachers' were sadly just attention seekers or very hurt people, like some dude after a bad breakup went on about no women in heaven for absolute months and would fight people over it, go to jail, come back to preach his misogynistic nonsense only for the cycle to repeat. When I moved away he was in there for a good bit for pulling a knife on someone who fucking had it since he'd do legit 8hr shifts of 'preaching' about the evil of women and telling every woman he saw regardless of age they were damned to hell no matter what. Men and everyone else he'd just slur at, which is why he'd get into constant fights, no matter if they agreed with him.