Queens in the Stone Age
The forecast in Chardon for Saturday, April 1, called for turbulence, and not just of the meteorological variety. In addition to the rain, there were to be protests of two drag events driven by right-wing hate and outlandish accusations of child grooming.
“I think Jessie Peacock has a couple screws loose,” a bearded man from St. Helen’s Church in Chesterland said in the middle of Chardon Square, gripping a black rosary. “I’m here not just to ensure kids are okay. I’m here to protest mental illness.” “Jesus came in a form, you know,” Hoffman’s husband Rev. Allen Harris said. He smiled. “Jesus was the divine form that we could understand. And I think drag is a form of being in the world that some people get.”In the summer of 2015, Michelle Tea, an activist based in San Francisco, had an idea for an educational project. It was one part Reading Rainbow and another part RuPaul’s Drag Race, which immediately was interpreted by conservatives as a ploy intended to push buttons.
Gonzalez, a pundit for Blaze TV, echoed the sentiment. “And what is the best way to confuse children?” she said. “Confuse them about their sexuality, confuse them about their gender, expose them to things that their little brains are not ready for yet.” McMaster saw what happened there and worried about what would happen in Chardon, as calls for protests grew in advance of the events. While monitoring Proud Boys’ threats on Signal and Telegram, she arranged $20,000 in security – metal detectors, K-9 units, traffic directors.
In an interview a few days before, on March 29th, McMaster seemed both surprised by the UCC firebombing and unshaken by its threat. She recalled a memory, at 15, when, as a young president of Fairfield County’s FFA chapter, she was ridiculed for outing herself as a lesbian. No one, she said, stood up to back her up. “Not the school officials, not the other parents—no one! It just reminds me of what we exactly needed to see back then,” she said, her tone intensifying.
Though she’d encountered Proud Boys before and been harassed numerous times, Chardon felt different. In the days before the events, following the UCC firebombing, L’Ni sat in on daily intel calls with McMaster and check-ins with her fellow queens. “Mallory called me. I call Empress [Dupree], Empress calls me,” L’Ni recalled. “It’s, ‘How are you doing? How are you feeling?’ We’re looking at maps. We were looking at all the things to make sure how to get out [safely].
“The bomb people are here,” Yahner said. Police had found an email claiming an explosive device had been planted in Element 41 that morning. “There’s people out now. Can the performers take a break so that the dogs can come through?”Mendolera called. “Can you just walk the dog through?” he asked McMaster. He sounded shaken up. “The police said that we would rather not have people there.”
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