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Kate 09:32 on 2023-04-13 Permalink Reply  

• MarcG 09:42 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Same vibe as Rupublicans on IG https://www.instagram.com/rupublicans/

• carswell 09:54 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  And Duhaime identifies as homosexual. Looks like his political ambitions trump his orientation. Like his Log Cabin Republican counterparts in the States, he can now be considered a quisling by most of the LGBTQ+ community.

• Kate 10:36 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  He’s gay? I didn’t even know that.

  Well, nothing automatically keeps a gay man from wanting to maintain traditional gender lines, even against the feelings of the zeitgeist.

• jeather 10:38 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  If you, a parent, do not want your child being read to by a drag performer, then I believe this is a very easy problem to solve. (I have only heard of protests about this being done on weekends at public libraries, not at public schools here. I don’t know what the rules in general are here about taking your kids out of, eg, sex ed.)

• Ephraim 11:34 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Drag performers have no interest in children… children can’t go to the shows as they are in 18+ venues.

  Now, the people in dresses that you need to keep away from children, don’t wear drag… they wear all black long dresses

  As for Duhaime, he’s not just a Quisling to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, he’s thought of that way by some of the Francophones as well and the fact that he hid his name and that it was he who helped translate the leaked Macron emails.

• Blork 12:26 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Ephraim, the current kerfuffle over drag queens is because of the recent thing where drag queens are going to schools and libraries to read stories to children. It’s not about what they do in 18+ venues.

• jeather 12:32 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Kids can’t go to (some) drag shows — I saw one that was an all ages sugaring off thing — but performers can read books to kids while in drag. Trying to mix up what happens at an 18+ show with what happens when the same person, a drag performer, sits in a library reading a picture book is just another piece in the culture war. Many people like kids, or like reading to kids.

• Ephraim 12:35 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  I know. But that isn’t really about drag at all. Kids don’t really understand any of that, they just think it’s someone fun who’s reading to them. Heck, they have programs where kids read to dogs… do people think that it’s sexualizing the dogs? No.

  And if you don’t want your kid going to see a drag queen read to them, don’t take them…. seriously? And yet, you put your kid on Santa’s lap and you know nothing about Santa Claus. Heck, as a child, my parents had to watch out for all kinds of people trying to proselyte. We weren’t even allowed to go to the Boy Scouts because there was a prayer said before the meeting.

  But the real threat to children? Definitely NOT the drag queens. How many articles a week do we need to read about Youth Pastors and Priests to finally realize that the predators aren’t in makeup.

• thomas 12:48 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Must be searching for new fundraising pitches now that anti-covid lockdowns are passé. Duhaime identifies more strongly as a grifter than to his sexual orientation.

• carswell 13:00 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  Agreed that this isn’t about drag. Now that they embrace (former) commies, rightwingers, especially Christianist rightwingers, have seized upon drag queens as the new boogieman they can use to scare the paranoid and uninformed and get them to contribute and to vote, especially in primaries. Hence the constant beating of the “groomer” drum by red state politicians. Funny that when growing up they, like me, were regularly exposed to drag on TV, in movies and in cartoons to no ill effect. Even rightwing heroes like Bob Hope and Saint Ronald Regan did drag on screen.

  All the while, the real groomers, indoctrinators and predators are religious types, not that the drag haters have any issues with that. Case in point: the Arizona supreme court has just ruled that Mormon bishops didn’t have to report a man’s confession to repeatedly raping his daughters and distributing films he made of it to child porn sites.

• carswell 13:38 on 2023-04-13 Permalink

  The AZ supreme court was upholding an appeals court decision BTW. And the suit against the church, which learned of the abuse in 2010 but waited three years before excommunicating him and still never reported him, was brought by the victims, the man’s daughters.

  https://www.ksl.com/article/50620222/arizona-supreme-court-upholds-latter-day-saint-priest-penitent-privilege-in-sex-abuse-case