They Want to Kill The Rabbit

 

I really don't understand the big deal about kids at drag shows, because I grew up on Warner Brothers cartoons, and you could not keep Bugs Bunny out of a dress. S/he was serving drag fierceness even though Elmer and their lil friends had a gun trained on hir. S/he was fighting for hir life up on that stage. In the olden days, before me and RuPaul were even babies, drag was king. All of Shakespeare started as drag. Panto was drag. And it was for the kids. Soldiers did drag. Drag was for macho men. And women.

Monty Python's pepper pots are drag. Benny Hill did drag. People who hate drag are the people drag was made for--to show them how they don't need to be. Drag is beauty and travesty. It is about telling on people. It is about showing up and showing out. It is entertainment. It is good-hearted people. The Drag Court raises so much for charity because beautiful people need to do beautiful things for others. 

Drag is realness because the world doesn't know what to do with nonconformists, but nonconformists understand how to do the world. 

So little Napoleon Blownapart Ron DeSantis is beside himself to know if he wants to investigate parents who take their kids to drag shows. Age-appropriate drag shows, because while drag queens might be gay, they are not stupid. Ron DesAntics has no "might" about him. He is just hopping on a weird bandwagon. What is the worst thing that happens to a kid at a drag show among so many people? As opposed to churches? Or anywhere else? 

So when people talk about making it a crime to expose kids to drag anywhere, it sounds to me like they want to impose compulsory heteronormativity. I mean, what is sexualizing about someone being fully-dressed? Unless they mean just not being fully dressed as the gender someone thinks you are supposed to be? So maybe today that just means no men in dresses or skirts. But tomorrow that means women shouldn't be in pants. 

I mean--pants. Girl pants. Yoga pants. Leggings. Jeans. Trousers. Pants suits. Maybe ladies shouldn't be doing man drag. And also doing work that interferes with the baby-making. I guess I am not in the baby making rota necessarily anymore, but I tell you what--I will be wearing the pants in this dystopia, thank you very much. And I will fight anyone trying to kill the rabbit--like these Patriot Front MF's trying to fuck up a Pride event.  The fash is always anti-gay and anti-trans, and so long as GOP stays fash friendly (yes, they are) you aren't confusing me for someone who will tolerate their bullshit. 

The GOP better purge their homophobe and transphobe shit before I'm willing to fuck with them. And they won't. So I will never. And I would rather most modern day elected Dems get that too.