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It's interesting that modern drag shows have been a thing for one hundred years without too much pearl clutching from conservatives until 2022. Gee, it's as if this is a wholly manufactured issue by the GOP to get their bigoted base riled up.
Conservatives: "But I ain't never heard anybody talking about it so much before!"
Yeah, and surely that's not due to propaganda...
"They kept it to themselves back then"
Conservatives are happy to "tolerate" other beliefs and ways of living provided that everyone acknowledges that they're the default, "normal" ones.
Teaching kids that there are other ways to live than as a repressed homophobe is anathema to them.
It's because for all that time they could spew vitriol about and even physically harm drag queens and none of their peers batted an eye, many even joined in. Nowadays it's accepted and even popular. Conservative Christians are seeing themselves and their values become the minority and it scares the living shit out of them.
Depends on where you are talking about 1930's German "conservatives" threw quite a stink about drag shows and queer caberets right before they started raiding establishments and violently purging their own ranks of anyone whom the gossip chain cited as potentially queer.
Always remember that Hitler killed his gay bestie.
Well, this is a community about U.S. politics and I’m replying to an article about Texas and specifically mentioned the GOP. Those are some pretty clear context clues.
Yup, but queer and minority persecution has been tied to conservative and authoritarian politics world round over the past 100 years and it isn't even America's first go round. McCarthy's lavender scare sought to tar queer communities with the same brush as communists. Prohibition era Christian Temprance Union policies hit the queer communities by design. They used to hold police raids regularly of queer clubs which were often owned by the same criminal syndicates who were rum running. Those links ran deep. Stonewall was owned by the mob who saw the need for underground spaces to charge protection money, utilize the informants to give heads up before a raid and charge exorbitant prices just so you could slowdance in public... Other queer establishments were raided as illicit all the time because if you were caught out in the street in drag it was a crime. The Stonewall riot did not take place on the first raid. Fuck, it wasn't even the first raid that month.
Saying nobody cluched their pearls over drag shows in the past 100 years isn't exactly truthful. American history is a lot uglier than that. Whenever a country gets scared and wants to dress itself up in Christian nationalism it's meant queer persecution and genocide. America isn't particularly special in that regard.