“We need to let the world know that anti-trans and anti-drag legislation and movements are not only wrong but harmful to so many,” WooWoo Monroe said at Tuesday’s meeting.
The opening of Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting was anything but drab thanks to the drag performer WooWoo Monroe.
“We are lucky enough to live in a place that is open, diverse and affirming but there are many other parts of the country that do not share the same values as we do here in California,” said WooWoo, also known as George Downes. “It is therefore important for those of us who can stand up and speak to do so. We need to let the world know that anti-trans and anti-drag legislation and movements are not only wrong but harmful to so many.
San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres, the council’s only openly gay member, partnered with the nonprofit Project MORE and the BAYMEC Foundation to showcase the drag performer as part of a council meeting for the first time. WooWoo Monroe, who started performing in 2012 in Santa Clara, hosts drag shows at Renegades bar in San Jose and also has appeared in New Ballet’s “San Jose Nutcracker” as Casa de Fruta .
Ken Yeager, the San Jose city council’s first openly gay member and now executive director of the BAYMEC Foundation, said inviting a drag queen to perform at a meeting would never have crossed his mind during his six years on the council during the early 2000s. “But now it’s been so politicized it makes sense to send that message,” he said. “That’s the beauty of having a diverse council.”As parents, we’re always challenging our kids to try new things.
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