Contents:
- DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
- IT’S TIME TO REVIS TAYLOR SWIFT’S GAY ANTHEM
DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
All drag queens are 's te that the majory of drag queens are gay, but there is a small mory of queens who are straight. Explag their choice, host RuPl said, “From the early days of the gay liberatn movement, to the AIDS crisis, to today, our queer sisters have always shown up when the LGBTQ muny need them the most.
Yet, they still only prent a few kernels of tertg week, that me om the queens—all gay men—chattg wh their lbian fay about the plited subject of reclaimg certa slurs. ”Then, Amanda posed an tertg qutn, which remas a hot-button issue wh queer circl (and the Drag Race fandom self): “Do you guys thk that lbians n say ‘fag’ and that gay guys n say ‘dyke, ’ or that should only be kept wh those groups to say?
” Kandy Me mentned that her own mother is a butch lbian, whom she refers to as a dyke, but also pletely unrstands why lbians would not want a gay man to say .
IT’S TIME TO REVIS TAYLOR SWIFT’S GAY ANTHEM
The gay experience and the lbian experience—though trsilly lked by queerns—are herently different.
In recent years, such blunt, outrageo rhetoric om the gay left has bee pretty faiar. Two years ago, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a YouTube vio which 81 of s members sang a song wh the rea: “We’ll nvert your children / Happens b by b. Groups like the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos once played an important role givg gay Amerins a posive image.
The ia of gay people as more or ls ordary people next door was ccial helpg w popular support for gay equaly, gays the ary, and, ultimately, same-sex marriage. To ce the tle of my 1993 book, most gay Amerins jt wanted “A Place at the Table. The tle of Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book ma the same pot: gay people were, all all, “Virtually Normal.