Posted on 03/10/2023 11:28:06 AM PST by Red Badger
RuPaul, the face of the “Drag Race” franchise, has responded to the recent wave of anti-drag and anti-trans legislation introduced by Republican lawmakers in the U.S.
In an Instagram video on Wednesday, the Emmy winner called the bills “a classic distraction technique” and urged Americans to register to vote.
“Hey, look over there! A classic distraction technique, distracting us away from the real issues that they were voted into office to focus on: jobs, healthcare, keeping our children safe from harm at their own school,” RuPaul said. “But we know that bullies are incompetent at solving real issues. They look for easy targets so they can give the impression of being effective. They think our love, our light, our laughter and our joy are signs of weakness. But they’re wrong because that is our strength.”
RuPaul continued, “Drag queens are the Marines of the queer movement. Don’t get it twisted and don’t be distracted. Register to vote so we can get these stunt queens out of office and put some smart people with real solutions into government. And by the way, a social media post has never been as powerful as a registered vote.”
The response comes as many conservative legislators around the country attempt to ban children from drag performances, bar drag shows from occurring in public places and brand them as adult-oriented businesses. Tennessee, Kentucky and Montana are three of the states moving forward with bills banning public drag performances.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a bill that goes into effect on July 1 that bans gender-affirming health care for minors. He also signed a bill limiting drag show performances in Tennessee. While it doesn’t implicitly say the word “drag,” the bill forbids drag performances by male or female impersonators who, as the law defines it, provide entertainment that is “harmful to minors.”
The attacks don’t stop there. At least 11 state legislatures are threatening to restrict or prohibit drag show performances as the GOP continues to ramp up efforts to spread the narrative that drag queens are predators.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 14 contestant Kerri Colby is just one of the many queens speaking out about the hate coming from the GOP. In an essay for Variety, Colby wrote, “It has been extremely distressing to see the political attacks recently, not just on the LGBTQ community, but also specifically on the art of drag.” She said, “Bills like these create more stigma, discrimination and ultimately violence against LGBTQ folks — particularly transgender and nonbinary people.”
In a video for GLAAD, Jackie Cox and Sasha Colby were joined by other queens from the series speaking out as part of efforts to spread positivity. Cox, a Season 12 contestant said, “We’re going to keep fighting this fight. So stay strong, especially if you’re in one of those states where all these things are happening. I’m here to tell you that you can still do drag, you can still be your true self, whatever that is. Showcase your art, showcase your gender. Even as you’re seeing the negative things even as all the hate happens, you have to shine that light shining bright for yourself.”
Additionally, World of Wonder has created the first-ever Drag Defense Fund with a donation from MTV and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The Drag Defense Fund supports the ACLU’s LGBTQ rights work.
Chase Strangio, deputy director for Transgender Justice at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project said, “Families, communities and transgender people ourselves are working tirelessly against a relentless assault on transgender people’s basic freedom and rights. Across the history of the queer community, our art and our joy has been censored, restricted, and criminalized and those pillars of our community are once again coming under attack. We’re thankful for the support of the Drag Defense Fund and are committed to protecting drag performers from these baseless and unconstitutional attacks on their art.”
Yeah, and we don’t want them beaching at our preschools!
I don’t care what that pervert thinks.
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In other words, they are the expeditionary force of demons for evil.
Chesty might actually jump out his grave to set the record straight on this one.
Are we headed for war and don’t even realize it?
Fixed it!
Semper Fi!
Maybe they’re the Japanese marines Chesty used to tangle with.
Sex perverts have no business drawing comparisons to the U.S. armed forces. They’re under enough pressure from the radical Left in government, including the DoD and Thoroughly Modern Milley.
If that is true, pedophiles are the Navy SEALs.
Drag Queens are the Latrines of the queer movement.
They are actually “sailors”.
Another day, another obnoxious overpaid spoiled “entertainer” who mistakenly believes we care what they think. The truth is, we don’t.
Neither do I.
I dont need to see a mentally deranged man with a wig on
Proof this is all highly organized and has huge $$$ behind it.
But it is not just the international films Netflix streams that are problematic. Its original programming sexualizes minors, grooms children, places underage actors in inappropriate sexual scenarios, and shows animated child porn.
Take, for example, the RuPaul dramedy AJ and the Queen which premiered in January of 2020. The show involves ten-year-old A.J. (Izzy G.), a girl dressed like a boy, who accompanies RuPaul to drag shows all over the country. One of the queens refers to little AJ as a “top,” a sexual term in LGBT culture. In one episode, A.J. puts on RuPaul’s giant fake breasts and lays on her back in the pool as RuPaul watches. In front of the girl, adults discuss someone being slipped a roofie. The offensive sexual content involving the child actor in this show is too much to list. Luckily, AJ and the Queen was canceled after just one season.
Cross Dressers ...
Back in the Closet !
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