“What seems problematic about this particular moment in time and this wave of drag panic that we’re seeing spread across the country is that these bills are masquerading as efforts to protect children, but really seem to be anti-LGBT bills at heart.”
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Colin Jack, R-St. George, said in a House committee hearing that the bill was meant “to protect minors, and to empower parents” by having government entities determine whether an event was “adult-oriented,” and should post warning signs if it was.
“What seems problematic about this particular moment in time and this wave of drag panic that we’re seeing spread across the country,” Lowe said, “is that these bills are masquerading as efforts to protect children, but really seem to be anti-LGBT bills at the heart of it.” “The language to describe what we’re talking about keeps shifting and never existed in the first place,” Swenson said. “Drag, to me, at its essence, is a performance of gender.”
The vast majority of drag performers, Miller said, don’t identify personally as their performance character’s gender. “It’s still a character: This expression of gender in a way that doesn’t always go with a person’s identity,” they said. “There’s been a conscious effort from the drag community to even tame down [content] that I would consider to be mild to begin with,” Miller said.
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