Pride Parade Bans Drag Queens Over Fears They'll Offend Trans People.
And don't you just love it when the left starts banning themselves because of political
correctness?
The Free Pride Glasgow that is supposed be the "non-commercial" and more open-minded
alternative to the traditional Glasgow LGBTIQ pride event is now taking measures to prevent
"Drag Queens" from performing in its annual parade.
And you will never guess why.
It's been confirmed that after much consideration the "Free Pride Glasgow" parade committee
members decided that having men dress as women and giving performances during their inclusive
event would actually be offensive to the transgendered community and those non-binary people within
their ranks would feel uncomfortable being exposed to "Drag Performances."
Obviously, the "Drag Queen" community is up in arms:Since the ban, several organizers
of this event have chimed in to say they also had considered banning "Drag Queens" for
a while now because they make a mockery of the notion of gender fluidity.
But had decided to keep the "offensive" and "marginalizing" performers out of
a sense of inclusion.
Well folks, don't you just love it when the left falls prey to its own guidelines?
They have constantly been pushing their agenda down our collective throats and telling us
that if we as much as say we don't agree with something they brand us bigots or racists,
or both.
But what are they now that they banned one of their own protected groups because they
might offend another one of their protected groups?
Why aren't these people tolerant of each other as they claim they want us on the right
to be tolerant of them?
Do they have a different sort of rule for themselves or is it just hypocrisy?
Not really sure, but whatever it is it will be great to see how this plays out.
Just sit back and relax folks, this will be fun to watch!
Here is more on this issue via Slate:
Last week, organizers of Glasgow's "Free Pride," a more radical alternative to the
city's main Pride festival, sparked controversy when they announced that drag acts would be
barred from performing at their annual August shindig.
A post on Free Pride's blog explained the decision:
It was felt that [drag performances] would make some of those who were transgender or
questioning their gender uncomfortable.
It was felt by the group within the Trans/Non Binary Caucus that some drag performance,
particularly cis drag, hinges on the social view of gender and making it into a joke,
however transgender individuals do not feel as though their gender identity is a joke.
Critics upbraided Free Pride's decree as a some-queers-are-more-equal-than-others policy.
The Stranger's Dan Savage wrote that their criteria for excluding drag acts "could
be used to exclude a lot of individuals and groups from performing at—or even attending—queer
pride events … until there's no one left at pride."
And when Free Pride hastily adjusted their ban to allow trans-drag acts (i.e. trans individuals
who sometimes perform in drag for work or fun), the Daily Beast published a critique
including angry remarks from Facebook: "How are you going to moderate who is a trans and
who is a cis drag act?
Maybe they should wear identification.
Such as a pink triangle … oh wait, that's been done before."
Across the rainbow spectrum, queers decried the decision's divisive implications for
an already divided community—until Free Pride caved and lifted the ban.
Looking at this fracas from my position as a working queen, it wasn't the banning itself
that bothered me most.
The most troubling thing from my point of view was the suggestion that "good" drag
shouldn't be making a joke of (or cause discomfort around) gender and identity—that
"good" drag shouldn't offend.
This logic is a big problem, because drag's central purpose is to do just that.
At its best, drag uses irreverent, shocking humor to parody ideas of male and female,
sexuality, race, and society.
Drag is not just a game of dress up enjoyed by privileged, cis-gendered queers.
It's also a weapon for self-expression, dissent, and critique wielded by diverse performers
including cis-queens, drag kings, female queens, trans people, and people of all ethnicities,
backgrounds, and body types.
When drag performers make jokes about or cause discomfort around social norms, they do so
with purpose, and they are doing their art proud.And yet Free Pride is not alone in its
doubts about drag.
As the genre continues to gain mainstream attention, it has become the object of more
frequent attacks, particularly in the past year.
Last January, former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney compared male drag performance
to blackface.
And when Facebook locked the accounts of queens who refused to publicly reveal their birth
names last year, a question hung in the air: Are drag performers just clowns, to be easily
deleted and delegitimized?
Meanwhile, on a personal level, my Outward articles on drag have been met with a fair
amount of harsh criticism.
Straight female friends have written to suggest that drag makes a mockery of women.
And, discouragingly, LGBTQ readers have voiced concern that drag creates harmful confusion.
Recently a transgender female reader sent in the following, heartbreaking question:
I've always found drag to be super offensive, but was never able to verbalize it until I
saw your video on drag.
Your drag queen claimed that the primary reason for drag is "to make straight men uncomfortable."
This is precisely what I don't want to do, and the discomfort that drag queens cause
often leads to discrimination against the transgender community, particularly those
who aren't so privileged in terms of passing.
Given that drag queens substantially outnumber transgendered individuals, do drag queens
consider this potential harm in sending the wrong message about gender to the population
at large?
Like Free Pride's decision, this question centers on the idea that causing discomfort
is damaging or undesirable.
I'm mortified to think that my art could degrade a fellow LGBTQ person, so part of
me wants to dissemble and explain that my comment was just a joke aimed at homophobes
who take drag as a personal attack.
But that would be dishonest.
Instead, I'll admit it: Spooking straight people—making them uncomfortable—is one
of my favorite activities.
Not because I've overlooked my potential to cause harm.
But because I am focused on my potential to cause change.
The discomfort I cause as a drag queen is not intended to shore up the wall between
LGBTQ people and the rest of the world, but to erode it.
When I ride the subway in full makeup, I give a few dozen tourists their first genderfuck
experience.
When I buy groceries in a lace-front wig, my cashiers must relinquish their certainty
that that kind of person doesn't live in their neighborhood.
When I startle a grade-schooler into asking his mother, "That's not a real lady, right,
Mom?"
I'm starting a conversation that may not otherwise have happened.
Drag has a unique capacity to make gender issues blatantly visible to those who might
try to ignore them.
And when I perform for LGBTQ people, I have the same goal—to cause discomfort that blurs,
rather than sharpens, the lines between the groups within our community.
By sending the "wrong message about gender" or "making it into a joke" within queer
spaces, I question the perceived divisions between my audience members, which include
trans people, gay men, lesbians, cis-female bachelorettes, and nervous hetero boyfriends.
I don't ignore the diversity within an LGBTQ crowd; I embody it.
There are so many false assumptions between the lines of Free Pride's now-rescinded
decree.
That drag is un-serious.
That it's possible to draw a clear line between cis- and trans-drag performers.
That systematic exclusion can be used to create a more inclusive environment.
But the most harmful idea is that drag—or any queer art form, for that matter—should
be muzzled.
If there are performers who use drag as a platform for creating enmity and hate, they
should be condemned for doing violence to the art form.
But condemning all drag performers for the sins of their peers is a ham-fisted mistake.
And in the wake of this fiasco, drag performers should learn how to advocate for themselves
when accused of mocking others.
Too often, I've heard defensive drag performers argue that drag is just harmless comedy, suggesting
that women and trans people who don't like it should just grow a thicker skin.
This is the oft-condemned "you gotta take that up with your therapist, kiddo" defense
adopted by RuPaul in 2012.
But that defense misses the mark.
Instead of downplaying drag's power to stir outrage—insisting that drag is not that
bad and that its detractors are overly sensitive—drag performers should acknowledge and embrace
their art form's gritty nature.
Yes, drag hits viewers where they are most vulnerable and confused.
Yes, it makes people uncomfortable.
And that's good."
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