Sam Brton is a drag queen, a cric of gay nversn therapy, and an LGBTQ+ activist who has lectured on kk at llege mp and participated terviews about fetish roleplay. A photo taken at the Universy of Nebraska shows Brton a drs, standg over three kneelg mal wh leather bondage-style dog masks on…
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BIN APPOTS GAY DRAG QUEEN TOP OFFICIAL FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
"But the face of homophobia and transphobia, queer activists and policians are attemptg to shift the msage om one of hate to one of mattersBrton (who did not rpond to Yahoo Life's requt for ment) is not the first drag performer to have dispted 1961, José Sarria, a part-time drag queen, beme the first out gay ndidate to n for office the Uned Stat — 15 years before Harvey Milk, the first out gay man to be elected to public office California, beme a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.
"I thk the right-wg attacks are gross and rooted homophobia, " Cummgs tells Yahoo Life of Brton's crics. Brton, a graduate of MIT wh dual master’s gre nuclear engeerg and technology, has also been an activist for Global Zero and the gay and transgenr suici preventn anizatn, The Trevor Project, and has advoted agast gay nversn therapy.
LGBTQ+ advot have been praisg Brton’s appotment, cludg Marti Cummgs, a drag performer who ran for New York Cy Council last year, who said “I thk the right-wg attacks are gross and rooted homophobia. I was told that my fah muny rejected my sexualy; that I was the abomatn we had heard about Sunday school; that I was the only gay person the world; that was evable I would get HIV and AIDS. Bee by day I work to save Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Qutng (LGBTQ) youth om suici, and by night I work to save the world om nuclear waste—related environmental disaster.