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- DRAG QUEENS BANNED FROM PRI EVENT FOR OFFENDG TRANS PEOPLE CROSS DRESSINGAN AVALANCHE OF ONLE CRICISM FOLLOWED A MOVE TO BAN DRAG QUEENS OM ‘FREE PRI’ GLASGOW. ON WEDNDAY, THE EVENT’S ANIZERS RELENTED. NA STROCHLICUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:18AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 23, 2015 1:00PM EDT DANNY LAWSON/PA PHOTOS, VIA LANDOV“I’M QUE AWARE OF HOW RIDICULO I AM,” SAYS NATHAN LANE, PLAYG THE QUEEN OF MIAMI’S DRAG QUEEN SCENE, THE BIRDGE. “I’VE BEEN THKG THAT THE ONLY SOLUTN IS TO GO WHERE NO ONE IS RIDICULO AND EVERYONE IS EQUAL.”LANE’S STUME-LOVG SHOWGIRL STAGE PRENCE WOULD LIKELY FEEL AS UNWELE AT GLASGOW’S GAY PRI WEEKEND THIS YEAR AS HE DID TRYG TO IMPRS HIS RIGHT-WG FUTURE -LAWS THE FILM.IN STLAND, A BAN ON DRAG PERFORMERS AT AN EVENT THIS YEAR’S PRI CELEBRATNS HAS ROCKED THE LGBT MUNY AND SPUN TO -FIGHTG BETWEEN ADVOCY GROUPS.FREE PRI, A NEWER ANIZATN WH A SELF-PROCLAIMED PLAN TO REVIVE THE EVENT’S RADILISM, ANNOUNCED WHAT MANY FOUND WAS A PERPLEXG CISN ON FRIDAY: IT WAS BANNG DRAG QUEENS OM PERFORMG THEIR AUGT CELEBRATNS. IN AN EXPLANATN ON S BLOG, THE FOUNRS ARGUED THAT DRAG TURNED GENR INTY TO A JOKE. “THE CISN WAS TAKEN BY TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS WHO WERE UNFORTABLE WH HAVG DRAG PERFORMANC AT THE EVENT,” WROTE. “IT WAS FELT THAT WOULD MAKE SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE TRANSGENR OR QUTNG THEIR GENR UNFORTABLE.” IT SPARKED STANT OUTRAGE. FACEBOOK AND TWTER ERS NMNED THE HYPOCRISY OF A POLICY OF EXCLN AT A DAY DITED TO THE OPPOSE.PRI GLASGOW, THE MA ANIZER OF THE WEEKEND, WAS QUICK TO DISTANCE SELF OM THE BAN. “WE N UNRSTAND THE ACTNS BEHD FREE PRI OVER THE BANNG OF DRAG PERFORMERS BUT BELIEVE THIS ACTN TO BE WRONG AND GOG AGAST WHAT AN CLIVE EVENT SHOULD BE ABOUT,” SAID A STATEMENT.THE SOCIAL MEDIA BACKLASH WAS SWIFT AND THLS.RUPL’S DRAG RACE PERFORMER MICHELLE VISAGE WROTE A FURY OF TWEETS AGAST THE CISN. “WHO. THE HELL. BANS DRAG QUEENS FROM GAY PRIDE? THE VERY BACKBONE OF THE PRIDE CELEBRATIONS? HELLO, EVER HEARD OF THE STONEWALL RIOTS?!!!” SHE WROTE, GETTG HUNDREDS OF RETWEETS.DRAG QUEENS WERE SOME OF THE FIRST ARRTS AT THE STONEWALL INN 1969, WHEN THE SCENE BURST TO RTS AND, EVENTUALLY, HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT.THEIR BOLDNS DRS HELPED MAKE A POCKET OF THE MUNY MASTREAM, MOST FAMOLY THE 1990 CLASSIC ABOUT DRAG HO PARIS IS BURNG AND NOW SHOWS LIKE RUPL’S DRAG RACE.WATCHG OM HIS HOME BIRMGHAM, ENGLAND, ADAM STEWART WAS DISMAYED TO FD HIS SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS FILLED WH NEWS OF THE PERFORMANCE BAN, AND THEN THE ALLOWANCE OF TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS.THE 26-YEAR-OLD STARTED THE INTERNATNAL DRAG DAY 2009 TO CELEBRATE THE ROLE OF DRAG QUEENS THE LGBTQ RIGHTS MOVEMENT.“THEY HAVE BEEN THERE AT EVERY PRI MARCH AND BENEF RAISG UNTLS AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR CHARY AND FIGHTG FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. I THK THAT BEE DRAG N BE SEEN AS MP, LOW-BROW AND EDIC, WE FET ABOUT THIS,” HE WROTE AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST. “ON STAGE THEY MAKE LGH, SE AND FOR THAT MOMENT NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOME OF THE CRAP THAT LIFE N THROW AT PEOPLE WHO ARE LGBTQ AND I THK THEY SHOULD BE APPLD FOR THIS.”FREE PRI RELENTED. ON FACEBOOK, POSTED A REQUT FOR FEEDBACK ON THE BAN—BUT ADD “IF YOU ARE CIS, PLEASE DO NOT MSAGE ABOUT THIS.” CIS REFERS TO A PERSON WHOSE GENR INTY NFORMS WH THEIR SEX.THREE DAYS LATER, CID TO ALLOW DRAG QUEENS—BUT ONLY IF THEY WERE TRANSGENR PERFORMERS.IN A LONG STATEMENT POSTED ON FACEBOOK, FREE PRI WROTE THAT POTENTIAL PERFORMERS WERE UNHAPPY WH THE LE. “WE DID NOT ANY WAY MEAN TO EQUATE CIS (WHO ARE OFTEN SEEN AS TRANSMISOGYNISTIC BY SOME PORTNS OF THE TRANS MUNY) DRAG PERFORMERS WH TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS,” WROTE. “WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPLICLY STATE THAT WHILE WE ATTEMPT TO CLU EVERYONE, WE HAVE ALWAYS, AND WILL ALWAYS AIM TO PUT THE NEEDS AND VOIC OF THE MOST MARGALIZED FIRST.”THIS DID LTLE TO EASE THE FLOOD OF CRICISM. “I THK THIS ONLY ADDS SALT TO THE WOUNDS. I N'T SEE WHAT TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS WILL DO DIFFERENTLY TO CIS DRAG PERFORMERS? IS THEIR SHIRLEY BASSEY MORE NSIRED? PERHAPS THEIR BARBARA STREISAND IS MORE ON POT....” STEWARD SAID.FACEBOOK MENTS WERE ALMOST ENTIRELY UNIFIED DISSENT TO THE UPDATED CISN. “YOU PLETELY HAD MY BACKG UNTIL YOU WENT DOWN THIS LUDICRO ROUTE OF DIVISN AND SEPARATN,” ONE WROTE.“AND AS I’M SURE YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN REMD, THOSE DRAG QUEENS YOU’RE SO SPERATE TO EXCLU WERE THE ON THAT GOT THE RT OF OFF OUR CLOSETED ASS THE FIRST PLACE,” ANOTHER SAID.“HOW ARE YOU GOG TO.MORATE WHO IS A TRANS AND WHO IS A CIS DRAG ACT? MAYBE THEY SHOULD WEAR INTIFITN. SUCH AS A PK WA, THAT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE....” SAID ANOTHER.“THIS IS AGAST THE LAW,” A FACEBOOK ER WROTE, NOTG THAT REFG TO HIRE A PERFORMER BASED ON GENR INTY OR SEX IS ILLEGAL UNR THE EQUALY ACT 2010.THERE WERE, OF URSE, ALSO SUPPORTERS OF THE IA, BUT THEIR PRENCE ON THE MENT THREADS WAS SNT.“FROM WHAT I SEE FREE PRI IS SIMPLY SUPPORTG THE VIEWS OF THE NON-BARY AND TRANS PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE ASKED THAT DRAG ACTS THEN NOT BE PREFORMED [SIC],” A LONE MENTER WROTE.THE BAN EVEN SPARKED A SMALL, BUT GROWG, ONLE BOYTT AGAST THE EVENT.FACEBOOK PAGE BOYTT FREE PRI AND A PETN SOUGHT TO PRSURE THE HOST VENUE TO KICK OUT THE EVENT.IRONILLY, THE FREE PRI EVENT WAS STARTED TO WELE THOSE WHO FELT MARGALIZED BY THE MASTREAM PRI EVENT THAT TAK PLACE GLASGOW ANNUALLY.THE MA WEEKEND FTIVI HAD BEE “-RADILIZED,” AN ANIZER OF FREE PRI TOLD THE EVENG TIM LAST WEEK.BY STAGG A ST-EE PARTY AT THE SAME TIME, THE EVENT HOPED TO SEND A REMR ABOUT THE NUANCED ISSU WH THE LGBTQ MUNY—OM CLASS AND RACE TO DISABILY AWARENS.IN STLAND, WHICH HAS BEEN ONE OF THE CSADG UNTRI ON LGBT ISSU, THERE STILL EXISTS EP EQUALY FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE.A NEW REPORT BY THE EQUALY NETWORK FOUND THAT TRANSGENR STS FEEL GREATER PREJUDICE THAN ANY OTHER SEXUAL OR GENR INTY THE LGBT MUNY—94 PERCENT REPORTED THAT THEY PERCEIVED DISCRIMATN BASED ON THEIR INTY. FREE PRI WAS KEENLY AWARE THAT THIS GROUP’S RIGHTS NEED GREATER ADVOCY.“PRI SHOULD BE EE. PRI SHOULD BE A PROTT. PRI SHOULD BE ACCSIBLE TO ALL,” THE GROUP’S FACEBOOK SCRIPTN SAYS.BUT WH THE DRAG PERFORMANCE BAN, WAS BEG BLAMED FOR PERPETUATG DIVISN WH THE MUNY.ON WEDNDAY NIGHT, FREE PRI ACCEPTED THE CRICISM AND OFFERED A MEA CULPA.“FREE PRI NOW WEL DRAG PERFORMERS OF ALL GENRS AND GENR INTI,” THE ANIZATN SAID A STATEMENT. “DRAG IS AN ART FORM, A FORM OF EXPRSN AND PERFORMANCE, A MUNY WH A RICH HISTORY. THE MOST EFUL MENTS AND ADVICE THAT WE HAVE BEEN SENT OM AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN OM TRANS PEOPLE OF LOR AND WORKG CLASS TRANS PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT DRAG AND HAVE LET KNOW THAT, WHOUT , THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD ACCS TO TRANS/QUEER CULTURE AT ALL.” NA STROCHLIC
- THREAD: DRAG QUEENS BANNED OM GAY PRI EVENT
DRAG QUEENS BANNED FROM PRI EVENT FOR OFFENDG TRANS PEOPLE CROSS DRESSINGAN AVALANCHE OF ONLE CRICISM FOLLOWED A MOVE TO BAN DRAG QUEENS OM ‘FREE PRI’ GLASGOW. ON WEDNDAY, THE EVENT’S ANIZERS RELENTED. NA STROCHLICUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 10:18AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 23, 2015 1:00PM EDT DANNY LAWSON/PA PHOTOS, VIA LANDOV“I’M QUE AWARE OF HOW RIDICULO I AM,” SAYS NATHAN LANE, PLAYG THE QUEEN OF MIAMI’S DRAG QUEEN SCENE, THE BIRDGE. “I’VE BEEN THKG THAT THE ONLY SOLUTN IS TO GO WHERE NO ONE IS RIDICULO AND EVERYONE IS EQUAL.”LANE’S STUME-LOVG SHOWGIRL STAGE PRENCE WOULD LIKELY FEEL AS UNWELE AT GLASGOW’S GAY PRI WEEKEND THIS YEAR AS HE DID TRYG TO IMPRS HIS RIGHT-WG FUTURE -LAWS THE FILM.IN STLAND, A BAN ON DRAG PERFORMERS AT AN EVENT THIS YEAR’S PRI CELEBRATNS HAS ROCKED THE LGBT MUNY AND SPUN TO -FIGHTG BETWEEN ADVOCY GROUPS.FREE PRI, A NEWER ANIZATN WH A SELF-PROCLAIMED PLAN TO REVIVE THE EVENT’S RADILISM, ANNOUNCED WHAT MANY FOUND WAS A PERPLEXG CISN ON FRIDAY: IT WAS BANNG DRAG QUEENS OM PERFORMG THEIR AUGT CELEBRATNS. IN AN EXPLANATN ON S BLOG, THE FOUNRS ARGUED THAT DRAG TURNED GENR INTY TO A JOKE. “THE CISN WAS TAKEN BY TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS WHO WERE UNFORTABLE WH HAVG DRAG PERFORMANC AT THE EVENT,” WROTE. “IT WAS FELT THAT WOULD MAKE SOME OF THOSE WHO WERE TRANSGENR OR QUTNG THEIR GENR UNFORTABLE.” IT SPARKED STANT OUTRAGE. FACEBOOK AND TWTER ERS NMNED THE HYPOCRISY OF A POLICY OF EXCLN AT A DAY DITED TO THE OPPOSE.PRI GLASGOW, THE MA ANIZER OF THE WEEKEND, WAS QUICK TO DISTANCE SELF OM THE BAN. “WE N UNRSTAND THE ACTNS BEHD FREE PRI OVER THE BANNG OF DRAG PERFORMERS BUT BELIEVE THIS ACTN TO BE WRONG AND GOG AGAST WHAT AN CLIVE EVENT SHOULD BE ABOUT,” SAID A STATEMENT.THE SOCIAL MEDIA BACKLASH WAS SWIFT AND THLS.RUPL’S DRAG RACE PERFORMER MICHELLE VISAGE WROTE A FURY OF TWEETS AGAST THE CISN. “WHO. THE HELL. BANS DRAG QUEENS FROM GAY PRIDE? THE VERY BACKBONE OF THE PRIDE CELEBRATIONS? HELLO, EVER HEARD OF THE STONEWALL RIOTS?!!!” SHE WROTE, GETTG HUNDREDS OF RETWEETS.DRAG QUEENS WERE SOME OF THE FIRST ARRTS AT THE STONEWALL INN 1969, WHEN THE SCENE BURST TO RTS AND, EVENTUALLY, HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT.THEIR BOLDNS DRS HELPED MAKE A POCKET OF THE MUNY MASTREAM, MOST FAMOLY THE 1990 CLASSIC ABOUT DRAG HO PARIS IS BURNG AND NOW SHOWS LIKE RUPL’S DRAG RACE.WATCHG OM HIS HOME BIRMGHAM, ENGLAND, ADAM STEWART WAS DISMAYED TO FD HIS SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS FILLED WH NEWS OF THE PERFORMANCE BAN, AND THEN THE ALLOWANCE OF TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS.THE 26-YEAR-OLD STARTED THE INTERNATNAL DRAG DAY 2009 TO CELEBRATE THE ROLE OF DRAG QUEENS THE LGBTQ RIGHTS MOVEMENT.“THEY HAVE BEEN THERE AT EVERY PRI MARCH AND BENEF RAISG UNTLS AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR CHARY AND FIGHTG FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. I THK THAT BEE DRAG N BE SEEN AS MP, LOW-BROW AND EDIC, WE FET ABOUT THIS,” HE WROTE AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST. “ON STAGE THEY MAKE LGH, SE AND FOR THAT MOMENT NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOME OF THE CRAP THAT LIFE N THROW AT PEOPLE WHO ARE LGBTQ AND I THK THEY SHOULD BE APPLD FOR THIS.”FREE PRI RELENTED. ON FACEBOOK, POSTED A REQUT FOR FEEDBACK ON THE BAN—BUT ADD “IF YOU ARE CIS, PLEASE DO NOT MSAGE ABOUT THIS.” CIS REFERS TO A PERSON WHOSE GENR INTY NFORMS WH THEIR SEX.THREE DAYS LATER, CID TO ALLOW DRAG QUEENS—BUT ONLY IF THEY WERE TRANSGENR PERFORMERS.IN A LONG STATEMENT POSTED ON FACEBOOK, FREE PRI WROTE THAT POTENTIAL PERFORMERS WERE UNHAPPY WH THE LE. “WE DID NOT ANY WAY MEAN TO EQUATE CIS (WHO ARE OFTEN SEEN AS TRANSMISOGYNISTIC BY SOME PORTNS OF THE TRANS MUNY) DRAG PERFORMERS WH TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS,” WROTE. “WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPLICLY STATE THAT WHILE WE ATTEMPT TO CLU EVERYONE, WE HAVE ALWAYS, AND WILL ALWAYS AIM TO PUT THE NEEDS AND VOIC OF THE MOST MARGALIZED FIRST.”THIS DID LTLE TO EASE THE FLOOD OF CRICISM. “I THK THIS ONLY ADDS SALT TO THE WOUNDS. I N'T SEE WHAT TRANS DRAG PERFORMERS WILL DO DIFFERENTLY TO CIS DRAG PERFORMERS? IS THEIR SHIRLEY BASSEY MORE NSIRED? PERHAPS THEIR BARBARA STREISAND IS MORE ON POT....” STEWARD SAID.FACEBOOK MENTS WERE ALMOST ENTIRELY UNIFIED DISSENT TO THE UPDATED CISN. “YOU PLETELY HAD MY BACKG UNTIL YOU WENT DOWN THIS LUDICRO ROUTE OF DIVISN AND SEPARATN,” ONE WROTE.“AND AS I’M SURE YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN REMD, THOSE DRAG QUEENS YOU’RE SO SPERATE TO EXCLU WERE THE ON THAT GOT THE RT OF OFF OUR CLOSETED ASS THE FIRST PLACE,” ANOTHER SAID.“HOW ARE YOU GOG TO.MORATE WHO IS A TRANS AND WHO IS A CIS DRAG ACT? MAYBE THEY SHOULD WEAR INTIFITN. SUCH AS A PK WA, THAT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE....” SAID ANOTHER.“THIS IS AGAST THE LAW,” A FACEBOOK ER WROTE, NOTG THAT REFG TO HIRE A PERFORMER BASED ON GENR INTY OR SEX IS ILLEGAL UNR THE EQUALY ACT 2010.THERE WERE, OF URSE, ALSO SUPPORTERS OF THE IA, BUT THEIR PRENCE ON THE MENT THREADS WAS SNT.“FROM WHAT I SEE FREE PRI IS SIMPLY SUPPORTG THE VIEWS OF THE NON-BARY AND TRANS PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE ASKED THAT DRAG ACTS THEN NOT BE PREFORMED [SIC],” A LONE MENTER WROTE.THE BAN EVEN SPARKED A SMALL, BUT GROWG, ONLE BOYTT AGAST THE EVENT.FACEBOOK PAGE BOYTT FREE PRI AND A PETN SOUGHT TO PRSURE THE HOST VENUE TO KICK OUT THE EVENT.IRONILLY, THE FREE PRI EVENT WAS STARTED TO WELE THOSE WHO FELT MARGALIZED BY THE MASTREAM PRI EVENT THAT TAK PLACE GLASGOW ANNUALLY.THE MA WEEKEND FTIVI HAD BEE “-RADILIZED,” AN ANIZER OF FREE PRI TOLD THE EVENG TIM LAST WEEK.BY STAGG A ST-EE PARTY AT THE SAME TIME, THE EVENT HOPED TO SEND A REMR ABOUT THE NUANCED ISSU WH THE LGBTQ MUNY—OM CLASS AND RACE TO DISABILY AWARENS.IN STLAND, WHICH HAS BEEN ONE OF THE CSADG UNTRI ON LGBT ISSU, THERE STILL EXISTS EP EQUALY FOR TRANSGENR PEOPLE.A NEW REPORT BY THE EQUALY NETWORK FOUND THAT TRANSGENR STS FEEL GREATER PREJUDICE THAN ANY OTHER SEXUAL OR GENR INTY THE LGBT MUNY—94 PERCENT REPORTED THAT THEY PERCEIVED DISCRIMATN BASED ON THEIR INTY. FREE PRI WAS KEENLY AWARE THAT THIS GROUP’S RIGHTS NEED GREATER ADVOCY.“PRI SHOULD BE EE. PRI SHOULD BE A PROTT. PRI SHOULD BE ACCSIBLE TO ALL,” THE GROUP’S FACEBOOK SCRIPTN SAYS.BUT WH THE DRAG PERFORMANCE BAN, WAS BEG BLAMED FOR PERPETUATG DIVISN WH THE MUNY.ON WEDNDAY NIGHT, FREE PRI ACCEPTED THE CRICISM AND OFFERED A MEA CULPA.“FREE PRI NOW WEL DRAG PERFORMERS OF ALL GENRS AND GENR INTI,” THE ANIZATN SAID A STATEMENT. “DRAG IS AN ART FORM, A FORM OF EXPRSN AND PERFORMANCE, A MUNY WH A RICH HISTORY. THE MOST EFUL MENTS AND ADVICE THAT WE HAVE BEEN SENT OM AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN OM TRANS PEOPLE OF LOR AND WORKG CLASS TRANS PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT DRAG AND HAVE LET KNOW THAT, WHOUT , THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD ACCS TO TRANS/QUEER CULTURE AT ALL.” NA STROCHLIC
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THREAD: DRAG QUEENS BANNED OM GAY PRI EVENT
BANS DRAG QUEENS FROM GAY PRIDE?
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