Friday, March 24, 2023

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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22 comments:

  1. Ah, Kevin Bacon, he has always been a very progressive thinker. I suspect Prager's pissed because he, himself, looks very dowdy in Drag. And Kelly's right. So are you. The Republicans are terrified of 2024, and all this hate is a desperate attempt to hold on the most conservative of their base.

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    1. They will only get more fear-mongering as 2024 approaches.

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  2. The extremist Right recruits and organizes their supporters and keeps donations flowing using Hate. Always has, always will. They got a lot of mileage recruiting new members/money out of their Hate campaigns against covid and government health measures but now that covid's usefulness to them is over, they have substituted drag/trans/gay people as their next Hate target.

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    1. Hate and fear and ignorance, and sadly the GOP and their ilk feed on the low income donors more than anyone else,

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  3. I've watched "RuPaul's Drag Race" for years and have always been amazed by the transformations and performances the participants do. "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an Amen up in here?!" AMEN!

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    1. As our dear departed Anne Marie would say: GAYmen!

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  4. We also watched RuPaul's Drag Race and
    enjoyed it. The talent was amazing.
    xoxo :-)

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  5. The verse that Prager refers to is in the old Testament and has been interpreted in many ways. The fact is, when it was written (by a man), men and women wore very similar clothing, and the verse more appropriately may be interpreted as a caution against idolatry. (Of course, Prager wouldn't like that - I suspect he is an IQ45 fan.)
    Also, if the idiot were to look back in history, before women had the opportunities to act in plays, men played both parts.

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    1. That's what these people do with the Bible, interpret passages to suit their viewpoint.
      PS Love "IQ45"!

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  6. Love Kevin. His Footloose was an eye opener.
    And you know the xtianists will twist themselves into pretzels to come up with bullshit excuses to ban anything and everything. Somebody should ban stupidity.
    Banning Drag is just one more step towards undermining liberties (Hello, First Amendment??) they will not stop there.
    And I had no idea who Maren Morris was but now I heart her.

    XOXO

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    1. If we banned stupidity where would the MAGAts go???
      I feel the same way about Morris, especially living in Tennessee and being a country singer.
      xoxo

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  7. Don't tell Mr Prager, because he'll only want to start practising, but the bible says you can go around stoning people and enslaving people (and sometimes both at once). It also says Let him without sin cast the first stone. Perhaps Mr Prager should ponder the sayings of Christ rather than those of stone age goatherds.

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    1. Cherry-picking the Bible is what suits asshats like Prager.

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  8. Dennis Prager can shut the fuck up and get out of the way of these amazing people!

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    1. I think he's jealous of how he looks in drag.

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  9. I love this support for drag! It is such a fundamental right of expression!

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    1. Yes it is, and it hurts no one.

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  10. The GOP keeps vomiting excuses for their lack of real programs and thought! I swear, sweetpea, these low-tooth count fucks that keep voting for these dumbasses need to do what they keep telling all the rest of us! You know, "If you don't like it here, get the fuck outta my country!!" GODDAMMIT! xoxo (have a good weekend, darlin!)

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    1. Remember all the stuff they ran on? Inflation? Gas? The border? Fentanyl? And they've ignored all that for a laptop and some drag queens ands US history.
      xoxo

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  11. Clothes have no gender.

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  12. Bravo to Kelley and Kevin and Maren. Has Dennis Prager never heard of Shakespeare?

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