I know we focus on the trans issue here, which makes sense, given that one actually has biological consequences, and it’s certainly… Concerning, especially with the explosion of teenage girls deciding they are “trans” or “non-binary” or “queer”, but…
The drag thing, man… Even beyond the “drag queen story time” shit, they’re everywhere…
It’s not even online, it’s fucking ubiquitous in Australian metros. Ads, billboards, “drag queen bingo” at pubs, bars and every casino in the country; every public library (in cities) has to have “story time”…
I just don’t get this. It’s the most obnoxious, in-your-face “LGBTQ” thing I have ever seen, even beyond gay marriage.
I know this varies by country, but my impression is that the UK, US and Canada are pretty damn similar in this respect.
Conspiracy theories aside, this just seems like a very strange thing to me. Even as a “cultural signifier”, it’s still just bizarre, lol…
Yeah, but see, it's subversion. Even the books they are reading are (generally) LGBTQ+ "flavoured"...
Drag was always "subversive". Originally, that was part of the intention (in addition to "mocking" femininity), or so they would claim, at least...
If you want to see how the drag "community" treats transwomen (eugh, words) who somewhat attempt to do what you describe (i.e. be sort of "normal", or at least, be less sexualised... Arguably), look up Carmen Carrera.
Former drag queen. Was on Rupaul. Then "came out" as trans, and transitioned. And got "married". The shit that came from other drag queens after that was rather... Telling.
Ironically, the loud, in-your-face trans activists and the loud, in-your-face drag-queen-story-hour types have a huge amount in common, and yet, in all likelihood, they hate each other too. So that's fun...
interesting. I'm having a tough time finding anything about how the drag community treated Carerra as most of the articles I can find are all "yas qween slay" stuff, including Wikipedia (no surprise).
To expand on my previous point: I think the debate (maybe it was on Reddit even) was around Carrera’s “legitimacy” as a drag queen, and whether she should be “allowed” to criticism RuPaul/other drag queens, given that she was “now a beautiful woman”…
It got rather nasty and heated.
I would source this, but I am literally absolutely exhausted and run off my feet right now. I just can’t do that at the present moment.
But I promise you I read that on the internet somewhere, at the time (maybe a couple of years ago)…
And yes, hell, it’s entirely possible it has been subsequently “scrubbed”…
Who fucking knows at this point, with how things have gone, this last couple of years…
RuPaul is objectively not a good person, though, so at least Carrera had the “balls” (lolololol) to criticize him for that shit…
Man, I wish I didn’t know this stuff.
I fucking hate drag…
I definitely saw it somewhere. I think it was around when Carrera was criticizing Drag Race/Rupaul himself, so maybe that might help a bit…
The “activist types” found themselves in an awkward conundrum there…