I Didn't Say It

Kevin Bacon, praising RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 musical, Wigloose: The Rusical, railing against those anti-drag laws around the country:

"Big shoutout to … Wigloose: the Rusical (and props to Heaven Bacon). With all the recent anti-drag bills, this came at just the right time. Drag is an art and drag is a right."

Bacon also linked to a page for RuPaul’s Drag Race production company World of Wonder's initiative with the ACLU, the Drag Defense Fund, which raises money in support of those impacted by the legislation.

Cuz drag is an art and drag is a drag, and drag is …

Of note:  amid the rise in homophobic and transphobic political attacks, several Drag Race winners, icons and LGBTQIA+ community members will take part in the Drag Isn't Dangerous digital telethon on May 7, featuring Monét X Change, Trixie Mattel, Jinkx Monsoon, Kerri Colby, and more in a streaming event that will raise funds for those affected by anti-drag legislation.

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Maren Morris, country singer, after performing at a benefit concert to oppose Tennessee’s anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, took her message to Instagram after with a dare for her home state:

“Thank you Nashville, the gorgeous Queens and the LGBTQ+ community for showing up last night. A HUGE thank you … for pulling off the unthinkable at Bridgestone. A lot of healing happened and it won’t be forgotten … I brought my son here earlier today for soundcheck, and he’s turning three this week, and we got to go in the room where all the queens were getting ready and doing their makeup. And he freaked out when he went in there because it’s just magic what drag queens do. There’s wigs everywhere, and the smell of hairspray and wig glue; there’s glitter; everyone’s in a good mood. It’s just like a room of love and yes, I introduced by son to some drag queens today so Tennessee f**kin’ arrest me.” 

This is how it’s done: stand up, speak out, dare the haters to act.

Their fear tactics will not win.

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Dennis Prager, conservative podcaster, on banning drag because the Baby Jeebus:

“So, first of all, I personally don’t find it funny. I mean, if it’s a routine, like what was the one, the famous movie, Mrs. What—what was it called? Mrs. Doubtfire, that’s different. It was a middle-aged guy as a dowdy woman. And you know, the travails that ensued, that was a comedy. But in general, drag queen shows are not Mrs. Doubtfire. For many there was a sexual element, certainly for the performers. Would you like to perform in a dress or in a skirt or whatever other women’s clothing would be involved? Secondly, I wouldn’t attend because I actually take the Bible seriously and it says, ‘A man shall not wear a women’s clothing.’ I want to preserve the order that the Bible has established, and it’s an order built on distinctions. One of them is male/female. When you shatter the distinction in dress, you begin the process of shattering the distinction. So I think that the damage is not worth the fun.”

Hey dumbass? Take a look at movies since movies began and see how many men in  women’s clothes films and TV shows and plays have been made over the years. And I’m sure you’ve seen a lot, but if you haven’t, your loss. But you don’t have the right to tell anyone else in America what they can and cannot see. Oh, and if you follow any of the teachings of the Bible, you best follow them all, you shrimp eating, mixed fabric wearing heathen, because God sees you and She isn't happy.

You don’t like drag, don’t go. You won’t be missed.

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Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign, wants Republicans who wage war on transgender people to know she sees right through them:

“What I see in front of me is insecure people with power that are doing all that they can to hold onto it. Any time somebody talks about turning the clock back, that's a dog whistle. Whether you want to bring it back to 2015, or you want to bring it back to 1915, or you want to bring it back to 1815, we know what you are saying. You are trying to drag us back. For me, the brilliant thing and the beautiful thing about this country is that we can envision a possibility in the world that our ancestors had never experienced before, that's the whole beauty of the whole experiment to me.”

She’s right; the GOP is scared after 2020 And 2022, and terrified of what 2024 might bring, so they ignore their campaign promises and instead use fear and a campaign tool.

I’m not afraid of drag queens or history or books or the LGBTQ+ community or of women choosing to make their own health care choices, and I will never vote in fear.

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