The Trans Taliban Are Coming for the Drag Queens.
Drag Queens Are Being Banned and the Alphabet Soup is supporting it.
Was banned on Medium.
There is an Appendix added of other cases of banning of drag queens and other anti-drag queen efforts.
It should be recognized that trans ideologues, seeing that the Alphabet Soup leadership dreads being called transphobic and hence is unwilling to challenge any trans claim, no matter how outrageous, sees no limits to any stray claims or demands they might make.
First starting with demanding that gay men have sex with them and transplaining to the gay community who constitutes the gay community, they are now coming for the elimination of Drag and Drag Queens.
I show this link to this recent article on Medium. It is a major attack on Drag and compares Drag to blackface and has a picture of Al Jolson in blackface in the conclusion.
Drag Queens and Me
I’ve always hated circus clownsmedium.com
It is in the Internet Archive also, in case Emma Holiday decides to take it down.
What is annoying is that the author claims to be not against drag queens, and then writes a slasher article against them.
The essay opens with:
I have nothing against drag queens. They have an absolute right to express themselves any way they choose. Being transgender, who am I to throw stones? They are essentially clowns who use extremes for maximum comedic effect. They are cisgender men who exaggerate elements of femininity to show flaws and generate laughs. They are an art form.
I get it.
But the article then continues to attack drag queen concluding with this and a picture of Al Jolson in blackface.
I admit that I may be overly sensitive but modern social sensitivity has banished whites doing black-face comedy publicly or Chinese characters on stage or in films. Society finally grew up and recognized that the biases of that type of humor exposed an even more dangerous ignorance that included hate and intolerance against minorities.
Perhaps drag queen humor will follow the same path… or maybe I am just showing my own gender vulnerability at my weakest time.
Notice the taking of opposing positions simultaneous. “I admit that I may be overly sensitive, but modern social sensitivity has banished whites doing black-face comedy publicly …” The question is, is the author Emma Holiday, overly sensitive or not? Holiday hopes that drag queen humor follows a path, but then says maybe it is just her. Which is it? I see this as a rhetorical device for Emma Holiday to provide escape hatches for Holiday in case Holiday is called on this article.
The article is filled with loaded terminology and comparisons. Drag queens are defined as clowns, with a clown as the picture for the article. Holiday under the picture state that clowns have scared her even for the author Steven King. In the third paragraph the Holiday states that Holiday has been afraid of clowns even before Steven King, a horror novelist who has horror creature that presents itself as a clown to lure children, and John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who also performed as a clown. Holiday finds horror monsters and serial killers relevant to discussing drag queens. For those who aren’t familiar with the book and movie “It,” I provide the following link.
Stephen King | IT
A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an…stephenking.com
Or there is this sentence, “It reminds me of countless sexist, racist and ethnic jokes that I have had to listen to in silence over a lifetime…” So, drag queen shows are like sexist, racist, or ethnic jokes. One question that comes to mind in reading this sentence is that Holiday was too cowardly to speak up over a lifetime against these racist jokes, but now Holiday is attacking drag queens. Perhaps Holiday needs to spend some time about a life of not speaking out against these types of jokes. In the same paragraph drag humor is “mean humor.”
Holiday explains how Holiday finds drag queens upsetting as a transgender dealing with issues of being transgender. Now to see a drag show you either have to turn on your television and find a channel and choose to watch it. If you were going to actually be present at a drag show you would have to drive or take public transportation there, might pay a cover to see the show, and you would be expected to buy a drink.
It is not like people are pulled off the street and dragged into a drag show or drag shows show up at your front door and break it down.
One solution Holiday might consider is not watching drag shows. But Holiday has decided that drag shows are a threat to her.
Holiday asserts that drag queens are partly responsible for a stereotype of trans women as being “murdering psychopaths” and other types of bad people and are hence responsible for her fear of using the lady’s room. Holiday’s logic is a train wreck.
Respectability gays have for years been uncomfortable with drag shows and worrying what the straight people will think. I remember at a college gay group meeting when we had some drag queens come to speak, a member of the group tries to attack drag queens on the basis that they were somehow anti-feminist. There will be a lot of respectability gays willing to use the accusation that drag queens and their shows are transphobic to banish them.
Drag queens are often working-class gays who when on the stage are stars in their community. If you ever want to have a good time with a crowd of gay people without attitude or class snobbery you should go to a drag show. It is the gay community’s own folk art. It is a venue for a lot of MTF trans people also.
Should the humor in drag shows change? Maybe, but it should be discussed without dragging in serial killers and sci fi horror monsters. It should be done without demonizing drag queens. It shouldn’t be a discussion which is a cover for a respectability gay persons fear of what straight people think about drag queens, it shouldn’t be on the basis of the arguments of slanderers like Holiday, or particular individual phobias.
I think that the gay community needs to defend itself from attacks like this. I think also there needs to be a Gay community consciousness movement where we think autonomously and now have things dictated to use by others with their agenda.
Again, Holiday’s opinion is not shared by all trans people. A lot of trans people are drag performers. Also, this isn’t about waging a war on trans, or getting involved with a debate about trans ideology. I have an article in my list of articles about transmen about not joining anti-trans groups, and also the need for reproachment. My concern is that the discussion not be unilateral and also defend the gay community against aggressions and marginalization.
I am not sure how much Holiday’s article is a threat. I think leaders of the transgender movement will realize this opinion of Holiday’s is really an aggression against the gay community and would likely spark a backlash.
APPENDIX: DRAG QUEENS BANNED AT FREE PRIDE GLASGOW, OTHER BANNINGS.
These are the articles about it. Some trans individuals expressed that they might feel upset and so a whole group of others were banned. The ban was reversed. The fact that drag queens might be upset for being banned wasn’t considered. Being trans always takes priority over others otherwise there is the dreaded accusation of transphobia.
What is interesting is that at the regular Pride Glasgow they haven’t banned Drag Queens but did put in their Guide book negative language about Drag Queens as a concession to complaining trans. This shows how the Alphabet Soup leadership is unwilling to stand up to attacks on the gay community.
Without the L and G in LGBT there would be no pride events, but it seems every whiney complaint is catered to because people fear being denounced. It also shows how SOME trans expect to dictate to the world their views on everything and how the Alphabet Soup leadership caves into it.
There is a Medium story claiming that there was no ban, but the story’s claim is not in keeping with the facts.
Pride event BANS drag queens in case they are offensive
A Pride event in Scotland has banned all drag queens from performing - in case they are "offensive" to trans people…www.pinknews.co.uk
Pride event bans drag queens over fears acts could offend trans people
A Pride event in Glasgow has banned drag queens from performing, after committee members decided acts could offend…www.independent.co.uk
Glasgow gay pride march's U-turn on drag queen ban
Free Pride Glasgow, a rival to the main Pride Glasgow event, said drag acts could make transgender invidivuals…www.scotsman.com
Yes, Drag Is Offensive-Here's Why That's Important
Last week, organizers of Glasgow's "Free Pride," a more radical alternative to the city's main Pride festival, sparked…slate.com
Glasgow Free Pride Rescinds Drag Ban
Glasgow Free Pride Rescinds Drag Ban Glasgow Free Pride, an alternative, anticommercial LGBT celebration taking place…www.advocate.com
Drag Queens Banned From Pride Event for Offending Trans People
"I'm quite aware of how ridiculous I am," says Nathan Lane, playing the queen of Miami's drag queen scene, in The…www.thedailybeast.com
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY BAN:
On the pretext that some group was using Drag to demean Trans there was a ban on drag acts. The idea that you ban a whole class of activities based on one bad group is ridiculous. If there was a problem event that event should be dealt with.
University bans drag socials after they're used to "ridicule" trans people
The events were being used by cis men to make a "mockery of trans women". Aberystwyth University has banned drag…www.gaytimes.co.uk
PROFESSOR AT TULANE UNIVERSITY:
Are Drag Queens Doing Girlface? - Sociological Images
Organizers of Free Pride Glasgow, a Scottish gay pride parade, have "banned" drag queens from the event, citing…thesocietypages.org
STANFORD DAILY
This author wants to make it an issue of race by asserting that Drag Queens are mostly white men. Evidently, she has never seen the 1990 movie, “Paris is Burning.”
Wigs, wings and blatant misogyny: Complicating drag | The Stanford Daily
I was sixteen when I went to my first Pride Parade in San Francisco, and some of the first things that caught my eye…www.stanforddaily.com
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