#Dragphobia

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

A completed draft Texas Republican Party platform refers to homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” and Drag Queen Story Hour as “predatory sexual behavior.” The platform has been voted on by state party delegates and will be formally adopted on Wednesday after a final vote count. The list of state party priorities calls for an end to legal same-sex marriages, same-sex parenting, all LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination laws, all transgender rights — including gender-affirming care for children and adults — a ban on LGBTQ+ content in schools and libraries, the defunding of all diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and legal protections for anyone who discriminates against queer people based on “religious or moral beliefs.”

Furthermore, the Texas GOP platform calls for a complete end to all of the following: pornography, federal welfare programs, minimum wage laws, mandatory sick or family leave policies, net neutrality, removal of Confederate monuments, pro-immigrant sanctuary cities, public education of undocumented children, no-fault divorce, non-abstinence sex education, abortion, birthright citizenship, professorial tenure in colleges and universities, cannabis legalization, anti-climate change legislation, contact tracing for the tracking of communicable diseases, federal regulations ensuring safe farm food production, and U.S. participation in the United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The platform also calls for fertilized human egg cells to be legally recognized as people, the passage of a “state electoral college-style” law that would make it nearly impossible for Democrats to win statewide office, a ballot measure for Texas to secede from the United States, the invalidation of all federal laws not approved of by county sheriffs, and for Christianity to be inserted into public schools and government buildings.

[...] “Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice,” it continues. “No one should be granted special legal status based on their LGBTQ+ identification…. We are opposed to same-sex parenting, intentionally subjecting a child to the loss of their biological father or mother, and other non-traditional definitions of family.” “We oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity,” it adds. “There shall be no attempt to engage in so-called ‘gender affirming’ medical or mental health intervention for persons between the ages of 18 and 26,” including the use of names and pronouns associated with trans people’s genders. The platform would require health insurance companies covering gender-affirming care to also fully fund de-transitional procedures. The platform says that any professionals who aid a minor’s gender transition in any way should face professional, civil, and criminal penalties, as well as lawsuits from anyone affected by their behavior. Furthermore, it calls for all gender-segregated facilities in prisons, schools, and government buildings to only be accessible to people based on their biological sex assigned at birth.

[...] It also calls for laws prohibiting the exposure of minors to “social transitioning” (that is, exploration of a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth), “predatory sexual behaviors” like Drag Queen Story Hour, and “the desensitization of children to sexual topics.”

The Texas GOP's platform reaffirms and expands its war on LGBTQ+ Texans, such as including anti-LGBTQ+, anti-trans, and anti-drag planks like baselessly calling Drag Queen Story Hours "predatory sexual behaviors" and gender-affirming care "child abuse".

This is in addition to calling homosexuality "an abnormal lifestyle choice" (a bigoted dogwhistle term used against recognizing LGBTQ+ identity) and opposing trans identity.

[barrydeutsch]

Dragscrolling

A #PoliCartoon by me and @nadinescholtes. I LOVE the expressions Nadine drew here! And the cat!

Transcript, discussion, info about my new collaborator Nadine, can all be found here.

You can help us keep making cartoons by hitting that share button, or more directly by supporting the Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps!

[antivivziepopparade]

I personally dont beleive that Moxxie was "forced" into drag in the first gif but yeah the way that the show presents drag as "SEX IN FRONT OF KIDS!" is so fucking uncomfortable and pedophillic, and all around stereotyping of drag queens/kings.

The fact that the most sexualized Moxxie was was when he was pretending to be an underage girl makes this even worse.

They even added boob physics. 💀

Oh god don't get me started on how passive blitz' """representation""" of drag alongside moxxie are literally just used for eye candy/gags and not actual reasoning for the characters to genuinely try to show some gender expressionism!

"Oh but moxxie dressed up four different times surely that mea-"

He was the butt of the joke in all instances fuck off with that.

Forced into drag as a disguise twice [thrice?]

Forced into a wedding dress AGAINST HIS WILL MIND YOU

Hallucination not actually the real moxxie a projection of Blitz' harboring feelings projecting moxxie to be drag- vs how he actually performs """drag"""

Spot the differences! No offense to bugs bunny of course at least he has substance and purpose to his drags for LOONEY purposes! He's saying the joke to always move the cartoon plot forward at least!

Blitz has only openly dressed in drag once and the fans applauded viv like it was a big deal. [Even though I personally believe Brandon is homophobic accidentally :/]

Even in merchandising moxxie seems uncomfortable to even perform outside of his gender role....???

I get the anxiousness is the appeal of the character but really put it into perspective why the valentines merch is like this !!!!!

I AM CRITICIZING A SHOW THAT I USED TO THINK WAS QUEER POSITIVE. I AM A QUEER YES.

[pkmnprideflags]

reminder that there is nothing inherently wrong with drag and people who tell you otherwise are wrong <3

[antivivziepopparade]

Barbie’s line could've easily been "Humans are very easy to manipulate..." or "Earth-creatures are very easy to manipulate" (y'know because she's hell-born) but noooooooo they just HAD to say "teenagers" because taking advantage of minors = funny? -_-

Yeah... its bad.

It especially hurts that Viv fetishized a groomer from the show because I am a grooming victim myself. So seeing that episode have both dragphobia AND grooming fetishization was such a "ew" moment.

[previouslyafangirl]

Book Review: The Unbinding of Mary Reade

(Image Description: Book cover for The Unbinding of Mary Reade. A pirate ship sailing through a stormy sea and dark skies)

Rating: 5/5

So a few hours before I accidentally deleted my blog I wrote a review for this book I really proud of. I'll try to recreate it, but probably won't try to recreate my other book reviews just because I don't remember them as well.

I loved the pacing of this book, and the way McNamara handled the back and forth in time. It was clean, easy to follow, quick paced, and felt purposeful. One of my favorite aspects was the way Mary reclaimed her body and her autonomy. This book also played on the double standards of the time and emphasized the subtle and not so subtle ways that people fought back. Most importantly, this book did an excellent job illustrating and discussing the gray area in morality. Pirates did bad things, I won't excuse slavery, murder, and rape. But I can understand the good aspects to the lifestyle or why some of them felt they had no real options. Today too may people want an easy answer that's clear and absolute and that just isn't possible. Good people do bad things sometimes and the opposite is true too. We have to learn how to wade through that confusion. Like my mom says "You have to learn to sit in the ick sometimes" It's refreshing to read a fairly recently published book that illustrates that as well as this one does.

Trigger Warnings below:

Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexual assault, domestic abuse, death, murder, guns, violence, homophobia, hangings, dragphobia, period accurate slurs, racism, slavery, pirates, religious bigotry probably more this is just off the top of my head.

[toonmanaz]

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[notanexpertthisone]

Why Nagarjuna failed miserably during crossdressing task on Bigg Boss 4

Why Nagarjuna failed miserably during crossdressing task on Bigg Boss 4

Telugu Reality Show Bigg Boss Season 4 had a task for the inmates of the house on Sunday. The task was to indulge in cross dressing, which the host Nagarjuna said was to encourage gender equality, but failed miserably. Instead it turned out to be hurtful and stigmatic, and promotes trans-phobia, writes Bharatanatyam dancer, and drag artist PATRUNI CHIDANANDA SASTRY

Scene from Sunday episode…

[susansontag]

so what we tend to have is ordinary people, especially parents, having concerns about sexual content at particular all-ages drag shows. these are picked up by right-wing press (because they’re the only ones willing to run such a story?) who sensationalise it and use it to demonise what they I suppose term ‘the left’ and also likely gay men. then liberal press and orgs like the tools they are create stupid terms like ‘dragphobia’ that inevitably will make them a laughing stock. right-wing press uses opportunity to smear libs for not caring about children etc. rinse and repeat

[dead-twink-storage]

Dragphobia is such a hilarious concept whithin the larger sphere of homophobia because it's akin to having a friend of a friend of yours shout nigger at the top of his lungs in a black ghetto getting you both jumped and curbed stomped but demands that everyone feel sorry for him and ignore that he's the sole reason your busted bleeding skull is smattered all over the pavement.

[msclaritea]

This is completely useless shite. This chick, Palmer Haasch has worked at Entertainment Insider, Thrillist, Polygon and GLAAD, a Hard Left-leaning LGBT Media Watch group who deliberately crapped on Kamala Harris during an interview she gave during the presidential elections, completely opposite to how Elizabeth Warren, who regularly engages in Voter Suppression tactics, was treated.

Why the FUCK is this particular group continuing the give air and publicity to a bunch of creepy, female stalkers who've made Benedict's life hell?

Haasch has to be boosted by her co-workers and an innocuous blog, Dergolem, who's keeping track of a lot of Benedict news, and is connected to nearly every p.r. troll belonging to Hunter, in addition to big blog pages, like this NFT guy.

GLAAD is also pushing the myth of Dragphobia being on the rise, especially galling when the same group continues to support Drag 4 Kids events. Drag is an adult, male entertainment, and a profession.

Even worse that GLAAD would keep defending D4K, knowing full well that some of these events are using graphic dance and language, that is then filmed and posted by Libs of TikTok, thus causing rightwingers to give LGBT communities more anguish.

This situation is a different version of what's going on in Britain right now, with citizens clashing with Transgender activists who keep using hardline tactics: verbal abuse, physical assault, vandalism. They publicly were just given support by Greta Thunberg, who everybody with common sense now sees is a major fraud, a disruptive brand, basically being handled. Recall her stunt with the German train company:

One of the other groups brought up that is causing trouble? Extinction Rebellion, the shady activist group that Hunter and crew most definitely forced Benedict to show support for.:

It actually took a comment on social media to remind me how there were BLM activists that would show up to events, using hardline language, and tactics like vandalism. Those few actions were blown up by right-wing press as a reason people shouldn't give support to black causes. All of these groups are together, engaging in sabotaging real civic action and civic groups, creating divisions where there were none and helping the Right AND corporations keep power over our governments.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

Viewers in media markets across the U.S. were confronted with an ad targeting LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights during the World Series this week that was so vile that stations aired a disclaimer before it. The ad is sparking backlash for its inflammatory language and graphic content. Funded by Constitution Party presidential candidate Randall Terry, the ad aired on local Fox affiliates like Kansas City’s WDAF and triggered an on-air content warning from stations obligated to broadcast it under federal rules. Some ABC affiliates have also run the ad with a disclaimer. In the ad, a speaker identifying as a Black pastor accuses Democrats of exploiting Black voters and promoting policies harmful to children, LGBTQ+ rights, and families. The speaker claims, “They have drag queens reading filth to our children, grooming them for sexual exploitation, mutilating their genitals, pushing same-sex marriage, killing our babies by the millions, [and] seducing us to destroy our families for a welfare check,” before concluding, “Don’t vote for Kamala [Harris] or any Democrat.” The ad includes graphic photos of disfigured fetuses.

[...] Terry, a longtime figure in anti-abortion activism, has a history of militant tactics that have raised concerns among civil rights groups. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Terry’s organization, Operation Rescue, was at the center of violent and disruptive tactics during the 1980s and 1990s. Operation Rescue organized aggressive blockades and protests at abortion clinics, resulting in numerous arrests and contributing to an environment that encouraged violence. The SPLC noted that Terry’s rhetoric and actions helped galvanize a faction within the anti-abortion movement that adopted increasingly aggressive and violent tactics, with clinic blockades and harassment evolving into acts of arson and murder. The SPLC reports that Terry’s influence played a significant role in the movement’s most extremist, dangerous phase, which placed healthcare providers and patients at risk. Recent data shows voters increasingly reject “mean-spirited” and divisive anti-trans ads. According to a Data for Progress survey, 54 percent of likely voters believe anti-trans ads have gone “out of hand,” and 74 percent say transgender people deserve dignity and respect. Voters in the poll expressed that their primary concerns remain focused on economic and health issues, not divisive cultural attacks.

TV networks such as Fox were forced to air an ad from Constitution Party Presidential candidate Randall Terry, and due to the ad featuring graphic content that had vile anti-LGBTQ+, anti-trans, and anti-abortion themes, the networks put a disclaimer.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Anti-LGBTQ+ presidential candidate airs grisly anti-trans & abortion ads during World Series

[theusarticles]

LGBT group warns 'dragphobia' is on the rise, conservatives blast post on Twitter

LGBT group warns ‘dragphobia’ is on the rise, conservatives blast post on Twitter

A prominent LGBT group warned this week that “dragphobia” is on the rise in the U.S. as public outcry continues to grow against drag shows in public places that allow children in the audience.  “There is clear and present danger against our community and threats… we really haven’t seen it at this level in over a decade, if ever,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said on the “Takeaway”…

[nadinescholtes]

It was very fun to draw the expressions! Thank you, for commissioning me!

Dragscrolling

A #PoliCartoon by me and @nadinescholtes. I LOVE the expressions Nadine drew here! And the cat!

Transcript, discussion, info about my new collaborator Nadine, can all be found here.

You can help us keep making cartoons by hitting that share button, or more directly by supporting the Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:

A woman on vacation in Hawaii lost it when she discovered three drag queens sitting in the lobby of her hotel. Beth Bourne, a local chair for the anti-LGBTQ+ Moms for Liberty chapter in Davis, California and an employee at the university there, came across the three drag artists at the Alohilani Resort Waikiki where she was staying.

The three performers were shooting a promotional video for an upcoming pageant when Bourne spotted them seated in the lobby on Sunday morning. After an earlier encounter, Bourne returned with phone in hand to record the premeditated confrontation. A video shot by one of victims, Honolulu drag queen Marina Del Rey, has gone viral. “Call the police!” the woman shouts at the hotel manager, who, along with other hotel employees, patiently tries to guide Bourne away from the drag artists. Wielding her phone like a weapon, Bourne is apoplectic as she describes the “misogyny” she’s witnessing and how the artists’ appearance is “degrading.”

“I paid to be a customer at a hotel where I thought that you believed that women were real!” Bourne rants as hotel guests gawk. “Because you put on makeup, because you put on high heels, because you have a Barbie outfit on, you don’t think this is degrading? This is misogyny!” Bourne, dressed in a black pajama top and matching shorts, continues her screed, pacing back and forth around staff and the queens she’s accosting. “If you give me back my money right now I will leave the hotel. But I will not have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what’s happening here! This is completely degrading. I wanna know what your names are because I’m going to share them,” Bourne threatens the artists. “Are you dressed up?” she asks one performer. “Are you a man? Are you a man pretending to be a woman?”

[...] The backstory to Bourne’s attack is a sad one. It turns out one of Bourne’s own kids recently came out as trans and nonbinary, pushing Bourne over the edge into her anti-trans activism — and tearing her family apart in the process.

Far-right Moms For Liberty chapter leader and UC Davis employee Beth Bourne caused a ruckus in the Alohilani Resort Waikiki in Hawaii with her anti-drag and anti-trans bigotry recently by harassing 3 drag performers in the lobby and shouting out vile dragphobic and transphobic remarks.

Bourne’s extreme anti-trans activism led to alienating her nonbinary kid Lily to the point of driving Lily out of the family home.

See Also:

The Advocate: California Moms for Liberty chair’s shocking attack on drag queens goes viral

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Donald Padgett at The Advocate:

A drag queen story hour at a Massachusetts library was canceled after the library received a bomb threat. A subsequent investigation by police revealed the call to be a false alarm, but the authorities are taking the threat seriously, local ABC affiliate WCVB reported. Police estimated around 100 people showed up outside Somerville Library on Saturday, with supporters vastly outnumbering protesters. Organizers planned to continue with the story hour until they received the bomb threat. The building was evacuated and searched, and organizers and community members decided it was best to cancel the event. “Hate has no place here in Somerville,” Mayor Katjana Ballantyne said. “When any one of us is hurt, we’re all hurt, so it’s just not acceptable.” One of the groups reportedly protesting the drag queen story hour on Sunday was Super Happy Fun America, a Massachusetts right-wing political advocacy group founded in 2019. The group praised the efforts of protesters but denounced and disavowed any connection to the bomb threat.

Far-right anti-LGBTQ+ group Super Happy Fun America gloated over the cancellation of a planned drag queen story hour at Somerville Library caused by a bomb threat.

This is what groups like Super Happy Fun America, Gays Against Groomers, and Libs of TikTok have helped incite over the past few years with their anti-drag extremism.