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Watching The Defectives: My Annual Pride Rant
Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixteenth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of...
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Watching The Defectives: My Annual Pride Rant
Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the seventeenth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance...
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VT High School Holds Halftime Drag Pageant [VIDEO]
The Associated Press reports: A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime, with a mix of students and faculty members parading in gowns, wigs and makeup...
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AR Senate Passes Bill Classifying Drag Shows As “Adult”
Little Rock’s NBC affiliate reports: A controversial bill reclassifying drag performances as adult entertainment and placing limits on where performances can happen has been approved by Arkansas...
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RuPaul: Drag Queens Are The Marines Of The Movement
“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...
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FL Bill Would Jail Parents Who Take Kids To Drag Shows
Orlando’s Fox affiliate reports: Identical Florida House and Senate bills, entitled “Protection of Children,” go after hotels and restaurants that allow children to attend what the bills call “an adult...
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World’s Oldest Working Drag Queen Dies At Age 92
The Associated Press reports: Walter Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV and a fearless advocate for Portland’s LGBTQ+ community, has died of natural...
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British Drag Legend Lily Savage Dies At 67 [VIDEO]
The Guardian reports: Paul O’Grady, the beloved TV presenter and comedian who broke on to the scene with his drag act persona Lily Savage, has died at the age of 67. His husband, Andre Portasio,...
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POLL: Majority Oppose Laws Restricting Drag Shows
The Hill reports: The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent said they...
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San Francisco Drag Legend Heklina Dies In London
San Francisco’s NBC affiliate reports: Longtime San Francisco drag performer Heklina has reportedly died in London, according to a social media post from fellow SF drag mainstay, Peaches Christ (aka...
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Shapiro Calls For Criminalizing “Men Wearing Dresses”
“Should wearing dresses and skirts be illegal for men in public? If so, should wearing pants for women in public be illegal in public? Well, pants not so much because there is a female version of pants...
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Australia’s Barry Humphries/Dame Edna Dies At 89
The BBC reports: Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his comic character Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89. The star had been in hospital in Sydney after suffering complications...
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VIRAL VIDEO: Kevin Bacon Backs “Drag Defense Fund”
The Independent reports: Kevin Bacon has gone viral with a video he made in protest of the drag bans. On Sunday, he posted a video of him and his wife, the actor Kyra Sedgwick, dancing to Taylor...
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Federal Judge Temporarily Halts Texas Anti-Drag Law
The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. District Judge David Hittner temporarily blocked a new state law Thursday from going into effect that would have criminalized sexually-oriented performances in front of...
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Federal Judge Tosses Texas Ban On Public Drag Shows
Reuters reports: A federal judge in Texas ruled on Tuesday that the state’s new law limiting public drag performances was an unconstitutional restriction on speech and he permanently forbid enforcement...
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Philippine Drag Queen Arrested After Dressing As Jesus
CNN reports: A drag queen who dressed as Jesus Christ and performed a rock rendition of The Lord’s Prayer has been arrested in the Philippines under the country’s obscenity laws, sparking a fierce...
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Federal Judge Blocks Tennessee Town’s Drag Ban
The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has temporarily blocked city officials in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from enforcing an ordinance designed to ban drag performances from taking place on...
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Texas Drag Show Canceled After Right Wing Crusade
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: Piaf Kitchen + Wine + Bar had promoted a “drag show” Dec. 31 as part of a circus act at a premium-priced party that also will include a fire thrower, a magician, a...
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RuPaul Blasts Anti-Drag Laws In Emmy Win Speech
“We are so honored to have this award. Listen, you guys are just pure lovely for honoring our show and recognizing all these queens. We have released into the wild, hundreds of drag queens and they’re...
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Texas Students Petition SCOTUS To Allow Drag Show
Courthouse News reports: An LGBTQ student group asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday for emergency intervention so it can conduct an annual charity drag show against the wishes of the university’s...
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