I suggest you read a bit more about them - in their founder's own words.   They have a term for transgender people which I surely would get banned from Civil Comments if I repeated it here.  It's a hyphenated word that incorporate a racial slur.

If they truly cared about LGBTQ or racial minorities why would they say things like that?

And they don't appear to be interested in self-defense.  They go out looking for opportunities to get in people's faces and if they get to bash a few heads in they seem to take a certain gleeful joy in doing so.

Look at "Based Stick Man".  He's the poster child of bringing weapons to protests so he can put the hurt on others.  And they alt-right made him a hero for it.  The others, particularly the so-called "antifa" are no better but that doesn't make the Proud Boys righteous.

I don't need the MSM to tell me what they are.  I can look at their own words and actions to see it.