West Hollywood is set to anoint Los Angeles singer and performer Pickle as its brand new 'Drag Laureate,' the city's first official ambassador for the drag community and the second to hold that title in the US
She will serve a two-year term raising awareness and expanding appreciation for drag culture, at a time when lawmakers in several states have tried to restrict drag performances.
"This is the death rattle of a movement that just cannot adapt to a changing world and to a community that is saying, 'We're not hiding in the shadows anymore.'" "Honestly, I would hope that people coming to drag story take away a sense of play, of imagination, a love for reading," she said, donned with three roses in her long blonde wig, pink ruffled shorts and top, dangling blue earrings and a big green satin bow.
But a mother who took her son to Pickle's reading hour said it offered a way to expand children's awareness of others.
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