Drag queen at wedding

[wedding2021]

I'm considering having a drag queen sing at my wedding. What would you think if you were at a wedding and a drag queen had been booked to perform? Obviously they'd tone it down a bit with swearing etc.

Drag tend to be funny due to innuendo and utter filth but you can't have that at your wedding .
All you will end up with is a man in a dress.

I was replying to canigooutyet's post. Who declared her guests would leave if they heard music generally associated with weddings
Weird.

@grumpyorange

B hasn’t checked his privilege.

Drag tend to be funny due to innuendo and utter filth but you can't have that at your wedding

I had a child free wedding - would it not be appropriate to have a drag act at an adult gathering?
I had a live band but there's no reason I couldn't have had a drag act if I;d wanted one.

I would hate it, it's tacky and offensive.

I do think some people on here are being a bit prim about drag as a concept, though

I used to think this until I saw several drag shows and heard the revolting way they referred to women as “fish” etc
Now I agree that in a few years we will look back and realise how gross and mysogynistic drag really is. It’s not based on a concept of camaraderie with women, it’s based on the denigration of women and is coming from a stance of mockery and certainly not “sisterhood”.

Very few people want to sit through any sort of act at a wedding reception, tbh. Even a fairly benign one.

Ha ha !! I'd love that ! Weddings are usually dull .... DO IT OP !!!

That’s not traditionally what a drag queen looks like though is it grumpyorange ? I’ve no idea who that is, but if they are a drag queen they’re unusually understated. So yes, if you want to invite that person to come and sing in a regular non-sexist, non-piss-take-y way, nobody would be offended. There would probably be a few double takes and some men getting very confused. If you want the talk of your wedding to be the singer instead of the happy couple, why not?

Lily Savage doing show songs however. Different kettle of fish (pardon the fishy pun).

I love a bit of drag, but don't think it's appropriate for a wedding really. Wedding guests usually just want to drink, eat, dance, catch up with family ect, not to watch a show. Save it for the hen do.

You are saying that people can choose to live any way they please. No they can't. There are laws for a start.

You are saying that people can choose to live any way they please. No they can't. There are laws for a start

Laws against WHAT?
Drag queens?
Gay/lesbian people?
Trans people?

All perfectly fine.
Unless you've reverted back to paedophilia which for clarity is NEVER, EVER OK?

Decency laws for one.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?

Who made you the law lemon?

Honestly I would just think it was dreary and taking the piss out of women. Not for a wedding. ..

Who made you the law lemon?

Nobody.
Why, do you have a problem with any of those I listed?
Fine, you do you if so.

Decency laws for one
Why can't drag acts do family friendly shows?
Why automatically indecent?
I'm sure they're able to tone it down if so.
Anyways, we've no idea if OP has a child free wedding or an adult only one (unless I've missed where it said so)
Nothing wrong with a drag act at all regardless of content if it was an adult only one like mine was.
We had a live band though, people like different things.

Not for a wedding. I think drag shows are only fun for people who actively decide to go and see them. I wouldn't personally inflict a show on people who I've invited to see me get married, as it's not something guests will expect or necessarily enjoy

Ugh. I’d think just don’t. Have some singing waiters instead.

Family drag. That's a thing now is it?
No because drag is grim and a crude parody of womanhood.

What’s wrong with a disco or a band to dance to? Something most people will enjoy?

At best it’ll be cringey, at worst downright offensive.

Family drag. That's a thing now is it?

Do you do pantomimes?
That's a man dressed up as a woman and some would say parodying.
Widow Twanky?
Family friendly or not?

I wonder will there will be autogynophile storytime for the littlies ?

I wonder will there will be autogynophile storytime for the littlies ?

WTF has that got to do with the OP?
All drag queens must be men with a fetish and dragging kids into their net via a story?
Er, no....
Why would there be a storytime at a wedding act?!
Getting more batshit.

Tacky AF. I suppose is you find the likes of Roy Chubby Brown funny then go for it.

I think drag queens are a revolting appropriation of women, and completely offensive and misogynistic. How is blackface (tightly) considered wrong but drag queens are now supposedly inspirational and under the LGBT banner?!

Calling women 'prim' because they are uncomfortable with something is just old school misogyny really isn't it?

No, because the fact that they are women has no bearing on my view that some are being a bit prim. I'd have used the same adjective if I was making the same point about men.

Also, there's a difference between something being personally uncomfortable with something (fine, their prerogative) and being judgey about it. The judgeyness from some people did make them come across as a bit prim in my view, yes. And their sex has nothing to do with that.

Do you do pantomimes?
That's a man dressed up as a woman and some would say parodying.
Widow Twanky?
Family friendly or not?

THIS.