George Pyle: 'Men dressing up as flamboyant women is silly at worst. City council members taking on the mantle of official bigotry is ugly.'
Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka and Shangela in Season Three of "We're Here," which includes an episode filmed in St. George.My father was the city manager of a couple of little towns on the prairie for, altogether, more than 30 years. One of the stories he sometimes told was about the time he stayed late at the office on a Friday afternoon to finalize the paperwork for a parade permit requested for that weekend.
What made this a story worth telling was the fact that the NAACP members were more than a little bit surprised that an old white guy would go the least bit out of his way to help them. That he didn’t invoke some officious technicality as an excuse for denying their request. Drag shows weren’t a thing in the 1970s, at least not in small towns away from the coasts, so my father was never faced with the questionWhen City Manager Adam Lenhard was asked to issue a permit for the HBO TV series “We’re Here” to stage and film a drag show on public property in St. George, he correctly saw that he had no legal grounds to deny it. But that snagged the wool of some local activists, including members of the city council who, collectively, are the city manager’s boss.
So, even as he was being forced out of his job, Lenhard did his job by saving the city a considerable amount of money. The horror elicited by drag shows or any other kind of gender-bending behavior, as well as the existence of immigrants and others not of the preferred sort, is really all the MAGA Republicans have going for them.
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