“Having a regular drag show here is a way for the LGBTQ community and culture to be ingrained. It’s a pure expression of our culture. It’s not watered-down.”
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Rather than be deterred, though, Madame Sasssysquatch has vowed that the show will go on. Now he is planning to hold a"bigger than ever" drag show at Schmiggity’s on August 21, which will feature Club Q drag artist Finnish Hymn Alnite as well as amateteur performers. “We’re going to stand together as a community,” he says.
One of the most disturbing acts of violence directed at the LGBTQ community came on November 19, 2022, when a gunman killed five people and wounded seventeen others during a, a volunteer-led organizing campaign that's building a national network of drag artists and is supporting the Fresh Drag Show, says that “hostility to drag exists all over the country.” He blames some politicians for sowing division: “They seek political gain by being bullies against these drag artists.
The first large-scale Yampa Valley Pride event was held in front of a courthouse in Steamboat Springs in 2021. Chelsie Holmes, the program manager of Queer Futures in Steamboat, says that members of the LGBTQ community are keenly aware that the more visible they become, the more likely they are to receive backlash.
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