“I’ve done drag in her home for her friends and family. She’s had her kid in front of a drag queen,” she told the Arizona Republic. “They took down our Flag and replaced it with a rainbow.” Lake went on to talk up her back-to-basics platform: “God, Guns & Glory.” In later posts, she accused drag queens of “grooming” children.īut Seville called Lake a “complete hypocrite” by revealing the politician had long been a frequenter of drag shows herself, including with family. “They kicked God out of schools and welcomed the Drag Queens,” Lake had tweeted. In fact, because of the longstanding mainstreaming of drag culture in the US, some of the recent rightwing critics have been outed for their hypocrisy on the issue.Ī Phoenix-area drag queen named Barbra Seville recently busted Kari Lake, a Trump-endorsed frontrunner for the Republican nomination in Arizona’s governor’s race, for being an enthusiastic patron of drag performance – even while publicly denouncing the after-school reading program. Photograph: Allison Joyce/AFP/Getty Images And it was RuPaul who famously remarked: “You’re born naked and the rest is drag.”Ī drag queen performs during celebrations for Pride month on 25 June 25, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The winner was Willow Pill, who became the first transgender contestant to win the main contest.
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‘What’s for the 21 and plus is for 21 and plus, what’s for children is for children.”ĭrag performance has long served as popular entertainment and is largely understood as such. Habibi added: “They’re afraid of the stigma of what a draq queen is, which in their in their minds is over-sexualization and sexual puns. “You need a creative person to bring an imaginative state to the kids and we’re able to do that in a way that’s safe for them and entertaining for everyone.”” “The drag queen story hour is super important for kids,” said Diamante Habibi, a drag queen working the door at New York’s Stonewall Inn. Recently in Idaho a group of far-right Patriot Front extremists were arrested amid fears they intended to attack a Pride march in the state.ĭrag queens themselves, however, are standing their ground. The pattern of intimidation, in cases not limited to the intimidation of drag queens, comes as Pride month itself has become a target for rightwing extremists in the US. Last week a drag event at a California bar, Mojos, was cancelled after protestors yelling homophobic abuse sought to enter the premises.
One parent was told they were a child abuser. Members of the same organisation – designated a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Group – also disrupted a Pride story-time event in South Carolina where kids were being read Daddy and Dada and Heather Has Two Mommies. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime. Three weeks ago at a reading in a library in San Lorenzo, 30 miles from San Francisco, a group of men, one wearing a T-shirt stenciled with the image of an assault rifle, interrupted a drag performer reading The Kindness Book to pre-schoolers, frightening all.Īuthorities said at least five men who appeared in the black and yellow uniform aligned with the extremist Proud Boy group hurled homophobic and transphobic slurs at the story hour’s performer, Panda Dulce, who later said the interruption was “a brazen act of vitriolic intimidation”. One of the main targets for rightwing ire has been Drag Queen Story Hour events where drag queens will read books to children at public libraries.
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