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DRAG'S NEXT ACT:WE'RE HERE, RUPL, MORE BRG 'MONEY AND MOMENTUM' TO GAY TV
As more gay men migrated to the cy throughout the 1970s, this spir met a queer artistic sensibily that ed drag and non-tradnal spirualy to affirm queer liv while rejectg the anti-LGBTQ+ genr nformy of the newly emergg Christian “moral majory. The Sister’s earlit activist actns clud publicly performg a “Rosary Time of Nuclear Peril” rponse to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, chasg hate-mongerg Christians out of San Francis’s Castro gay district, holdg a bgo and dis benef for gay Cuban refuge, and fundraisg for the first-ever Gay Olympics. ” The efforts gaed the Sisters greater regnn the gay prs and the lol gay muny.
This irreverent humor has clud several public mock exorcisms of anti-LGBTQ+ figur like anti-femist Phyllis Schlafly, Catholic Pope John Pl II, and homophobic rad show host Lra Schlsger.
“I have been arrted New York more tim than I have fgers and to, ” she told an terviewer om the San Francis Lbian and Gay History Project 1983, “for wearg pants and a shirt. Reunts his encyclopedic book Gaylaw, “by the begng of the 20 century, genr appropriatens… was creasgly nsired a sickns and public offense. Mchell also noticed an addnal wrkle: gay men and transgenr women who mentn the three-article le were ually beg arrted bar raids.