Once again, they’re really telling us what they do in their acts: perform in a sexually adult manner, which is entirely inappropriate for children to witness. Minors cannot go to strip clubs, bars, or adult “bookstores”, and, as we kept seeing in video, the trans performers were no different
Tennessee Law Sows Fear Among Drag Performers Before Pride Month
Renae Green-Bean had started taking precautions in public even before the Tennessee legislature approved a law in March limiting where “adult cabaret” can be performed.
Green-Bean had watched the uptick in legislation restricting LGBTQ rights and worried that restaurant nights with her wife, children or grandchildren, or her preference for masculine attire and closely cropped hair, would invite harassment. So she could not help but worry that the new law would make her feel less safe pursuing her creative outlet: throwing on a bedazzled jacket several nights a week and transforming into El Rey, a drag king.
If a federal judge allows the law to take effect in the coming weeks, it will ban what it defines as adult cabaret performances, including by “male or female impersonators,” on public property or anywhere children could view them. It will not stop the shows that Green-Bean, 46, puts on at an adults-only club in Clarksville and other clubs near the Kentucky border.
“Adults-only.” Would it be acceptable to have a women wearing the clothes she wears during her stripper routine perform for kids? Or one of those Chippendales? Would parents be OK with them reading sexually explicit material to children? No. And none really try. They leave the kids alone. Why is it that the gender confused intentionally target children?
Still, she and other performers said, being seen in drag anywhere in public feels far riskier now. The law and others like it come as far-right activists have increasingly targeted drag shows across the country, with members of the Proud Boys and other protesters, sometimes heavily armed, appearing at the shows and at library story hours when drag performers read books to children.
“There is a scare factor,” Green-Bean said of the law, “because they’ve given people the right to be hateful.”
No one really cares if a guy is wandering around in women’s clothes: they care when they’re wearing not much and dancing sexually in front of children. Just let kids be kids and stop pushing your adult agenda on them
Despite that growing visibility in mainstream culture, many people supporting anti-drag bills — which have been debated in more than a dozen states this year — consider drag performances too mature for young people or in direct conflict with deep religious values and maintain that they need to draw the line.
The most vocal critics of drag have characterized it as invariably sexual. But as audiences have broadened, many drag artists say they have adapted their performances, making them appropriate for drag brunches and public events like Pride parades when children might be present.
Did they do away with adult material, actions, clothes, etc? Then they won’t violate the law. They’re literally telling us that their performances were wrong for children.
Testifying in favor of Tennessee’s measure this year, Adam Dooley, pastor of the Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, said that while adults “have every right” to see a drag performance, “they do not have a right to insist that children be present, and frankly, I question whether there is some sinister motive that would drive the demand for children to be present.”
Opponents of the law and others like it say that they echo a decades-old anti-LGBTQ smear by suggesting that performers prey on children.
They have been preying on children. They want children to attend, they want specific programs for children, and this whole thing exploded as a fad. A dangerous one, which has long lasting effects on children. The right of adults to see this is protected. And children are being protected from being exploited and groomed.
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