‘I’m just trying to make the world a little brighter’: how the culture wars hijacked Drag Queen Story Hour

competing in certain events. “All these things validate these people, and the people in power should know better,” he says.

“Drag at its core is misogynistic,” wrote the pseudonymous Dr Em in the Critic magazine earlier this year. “It is men portraying women as sexually objectified caricatures. Drag performers frequently reduce women to hyper sexualised, big breasted, big haired bimbos.” The former Olympic swimmerwhen she tweeted: “Am I the only person fed up of drag shows? A parody of what a real woman is, like black face.

Of course, drag has long played a role in British society, from Shakespeare’s time, when women were banned from the stage and men wore female costumes to play their parts, through to the pantomime dame. It has also helped gay men – in particular, gay men of colour – find a place for themselves in societies that reject homosexuality.

His voice is full of emotion when we speak. “These are events for wee tiny kids. They shouldn’t have to hear fascists screaming: ‘Stop sexualising our kids’ … They don’t hear that inside.” Cavan says the protesters in Northern Ireland are largely people who “wrap themselves up in Christianity”, but are ultimately recycling homophobic tropes from previous eras: “‘Why would a gay man want to be around children?’ That kind of thing.

This week, he will be dressing as Pinocchio and reading stories in a shopping centre, wearing makeup and wood-effect leggings: “Nobody will protest against that. But put a dress on my body and it turns it into something seedy and sexual?”

Said the spider to the fly

Get away from our kids

Adult entertainment should not be an avenue into children’s entertainment.

Where is the problem ? Famine, wars, corruption, ecocide and greed destroying the planet and the future of our children and the looney tunes religious right wing wants to focus on Drag Queens. Leave the Drag Queens alone. FFS.

I love drag queens 💜🏳️‍🌈

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