Guardian: drag protests are a hard-right American import

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Guardian determined to portray all drag protests and objections as hard-right and imported from the States.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/british-extremists-us-right-family-drag-shows-children

No reference at all to the feminist/progressive case that drag is misogynistic, or to the rising tide of UK concerns about drag.

Almost as if they were trying to smear the anti-drag case. Surely not?

Another thing I hate about drag is the way it has supplanted 'gay', and those faces have become the face of Pride, Diversity, Inclusivity etc. We used to complain about lesbian invisibility in Gay Pride, but now gay men minus make-up and fishnet tights are being elbowed out too.

Here's an example:
A couple of years ago I was staying in a small provincial town in Ireland. There was an article in the local paper about how wonderful it was to have the first ever Pride event in the town. The accompanying photo was of a grotesquely made up man, l can only describe him as an ugly parody of a nightmare image of a woman.

Imagine being a kid from the area questioning your sexuality - you'd take one look at that photo and think ' well if that's what gay is, I'm not, and I won't go near that Pride event if that's what it's about'.

that's just transparent arse covering. How much coverage did they give to Rachel Meade? Jo Phoenix? Meanwhile, Liew and Talcum are still on the payroll. Fuck them.

That's the trouble with transparent arse covering; you can see right through it.

We used to complain about lesbian invisibility in Gay Pride, but now gay menminus make-up and fishnet tights are being elbowed out too.

I think it was Talcum themselves who whinged about the lack of diversity in a picture of a group of mostly LGBT people. Everyone was baffled: there were a range of ages, ethnicities, sexualities, abilities.....?

It was the lack of people with blue hair, fishnets, tutus and basques apparently.