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  Or maybe it’s the part where children are exposed to inappropriate content 🤔
context: This is all about keeping their base filled with hate.  That’s it.  They had drag shows during WWII for Christ’s sake.  It’s not like drag shows are a new thing.
  You know how you keep your kids from seeing a drag show?  Don’t take them there.  Problem solved >
  
  Yeah, waaaay back in the day, they were called “female impersonators.”  It’s not new. 
  The weirdly open hatred and contempt for them as a focal point seems rather new, though. >
  
  I think now that gay marriage and relationships have been normalized, they had to move on to other things, hence the current obsession they have with drag queens and trans people >
  
  Are drag queens trans, as a rule?  I never thought that was a necessary part of it.  Doesn’t mean it can’t be, but one of the coolest things I’ve heard recently was RuPaul on the Late Show telling Stephen Colbert “I’m still a man” about something or other.  I’m a cis hetero male and still felt some kind of empowerment when he said that.  I was just like, “hell yeah.”
  On the other hand, the right wing folks have definitely been fucking around with trans people and issues surrounding them, especially kids.  I really don’t understand that, at least not beyond the concept that conservatism requires an “other” in order to even function.  They just can’t leave people alone.
  EDIT:   So, for everyone who wants to help out and answer the question in the first line of this comment without taking it in the context of it being a reply to the comment above it, please note the following:
  I am not asking for the definition of a trans person.  I am not asking for the definition of a drag queen/king.  I am not asking for clarity on either of those issues.  
  I AM asking the commenter above me about the relevance of being a trans person to being a drag queen/king, because I thought we were talking about drag stuff, like the article was about, and they pulled trans issues into the conversation as another recent example of conservatives sticking their noses where they don’t belong. 
  So, I apologize for any confusion.  I thank everyone for their time and for their replies.  And most importantly, I thank everyone for their kindness and patience. 
  I’m disabling reply notifications specifically for this comment alone, but feel free to continue to leave notes for other readers if you think it will help someone else in their understanding. 
  I wish everyone a good night/day.  Thank you all. >
  
  Certainly not. There are trans drag queens, but more commonly drag queens are cis. On the previous season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, there was even a cis straight guy who is a drag queen >
  
  See, I wouldn’t have thought that being gay was a prerequisite, either. >
  
  it's not but 99% of drag queens are gay men. They tend to be more in touch with femininity, for better or worse, and not afraid to show off.  Straight men due to toxic masculinity are less likely to partake. >
  
  It's the dumbest shit they've introduced in bill form since they tried to charge $20 for Arizona adults to watch porn on their own phones.
  But maybe there's one I'm not thinking of. I am confident they could still get dumber. >
  
  The requirement in Louisiana now to enter your fucking ID to watch porns pretty fucking strange too. I just don't get the obsession.  I would guest bartend in college at the gay bar in town when they did their monthly drag show, and having literally worked at drag shows, I can tell you I gave less thought to drag shows while working at them than some of these right wingers do. It's like that's all they think about. Fuck man get over it. >
  
  
  It's like that's all they think about.
  
  It's their version of Two Minutes Hate. The declare something or someone an enemy of the state and then focus all their hate on it. >
  
  Fascism requires an enemy to function. >
  
  This statement should be taught and analysed in schools.  If there is no suitable enemy, one will be found. >
  
  
  one will be found
  
  Or completely fabricated from thin air. >
  
  "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." - Sartre >
  
  The Ren Faire would also likely be impacted. Been a few years since I've attended, but I'm pretty sure I remember some performers in drag.
  The way it's worded also directly impacts anyone who's transgender or simply gender non-conforming, from making any sort of appearance late at night, or before noon on Sundays. I'm certain that's intended.
  Comic Con lands, say, Mason Alexander Park, or Elliot Page as a guest? Better make sure they're safely in their room before they get arrested for entertaining fans too late, or too early on Sunday. The way the law's written ("more than two people") there could be an issue if they just stopped to talk to people in the hall and there was judged to be an entertainment factor. Like, somebody sings, or recites a favorite line for the delight of the fans, or tells a funny story, and boom, they're in trouble. >
  
  
  The Ren Faire would also likely be impacted. Been a few years since I've attended, but I'm pretty sure I remember some performers in drag.
  
  In fact, it would likely prevent people from dressing in certain period appropriate outfits just because said outfits are seen by today's society as "belonging to the opposite gender." At one point in history, tights and high heels were seen as garments for men. If a man walked out in those today, they'd be said to be wearing "women's clothing." So if I, a man, were to wear that to a gathering of people dressed in period costumes and a few of us danced to music (period appropriate, of course), would that count as a drag show? It looks like it would even though it's obviously not. >
  
  They know these laws are unconstitutional and likely to be vetoed.
  But they write these laws anyway.
  It's performative. It's a power game. Conservatives use the indomitable power of the state to intimidate and instill fear in the LGBT community.
  They think we're not going to do anything. They're just going to keep upping the ante, knowing no one's going to do anything about it.
  LGBT Americans and allies, you cannot exist as free and equal people in the society that conservatives want to build. You cannot exist in their society. They won't let you.
  They are already asking the transgender question.
  We have seen this ideology play out in history many times before; and it doesn't end well for anyone involved.
  We've seen what they will do to Jews the instant they think they can get away with it. Conservatives will do it all over again to the LGBT community the first chance they get.
  Don't wait for them to cross the line when they are sprinting toward it. >
  
  
  They know these laws are unconstitutional and likely to be vetoed.
  But they write these laws anyway.
  It's performative. It's a power game. Conservatives use the indomitable power of the state to intimidate and instill fear in the LGBT community.
  
  It's also used to rally their base to get more extreme right politicians in office and more extreme right judges in place. Once they get enough extreme right judges in the right places, the courts will suddenly decide that people don't have a right to be LGBTQ and that politicians can definitely persecute them as much as they like.
  Remember that the right pushed for 50 years to repeal Roe before they succeeded. They're willing to make incremental steps over the next 50 years if it means that they can dial LGBTQ rights back 100 years. >
  
  And some justices have already shown a willingness to declare LGBTQ folks don't have a right to exist. Clarence Thomas did as much when he called out Lawrence V. Texas as a case his wishes overturned. >
  
  Why not actually spend your time actually writing legislation that helps your constituents?  Why do politicians get away with this crap? >
  
  If 40% of the country is obsessed with drag queens and other conspiracy theories, it makes it so much easier for politicians not to do anything about healthcare, income inequality, and so on. >
  
  Republican 101 on how how to solve inflation, the border crisis, crime, and election fraud >
  
  Stopping drag shows is only half the battle. The other half involves thoroughly - and I mean thoroughly - studying Hunter Bidens dick pics. >
  
  enhance, enhance, enhance! >
  
  Free country?  Personal responsibility?  My ass! >
  
  "Free for those that are just like me" is what they mean. >
  
  This would be a pretty cut and dried 1A challenge, wouldn’t it? Literally trying to pass a law limiting free speech. >
  
  It's not going anywhere. It's just the stuff some local state R politicians throw out to keep the base foaming at the mouth over nonsense, rather than do the hard work to solve real problems. >
  
  They aren’t interested in meaningful governing, they haven’t been for decades. >
  
  Seriously, why the fuck does anyone care about this?
  There's photos of WWI soldiers doing drag shows 100 years ago. Drag shows go all throughout European history all the way back to the Roman empire. 
  Conservatives are truly some of the dumbest motherfuckers alive to care about this. It's like suddenly banning pencils or cars. >
  
  No more MASH re-runs after 9:00. >
  
  Would be kind of funny if someone ran heavy ads declaring that anyone who watched drag shows has been irreversibly ruined and is now part of the liberal agenda and then have a clip of Corporal Klinger doing a “hello boys”
  “Liberals… they want nothing more than for honest Americans to watch men dress up as ladies and find it an enjoyable time… well not us who know a better time before it was fashionable to dress in drag ”
  We know what’s funny  and we know it hasn’t come out in the last ten years of wokeness .  We’re conservatives and to us dressing up as women when you’re men… is seriously messed up >
  
  Gold, absolute gold. >
  
  why don't drag shows rebrand as churches? >
  
  because they shouldn't have to. >
  
  Fine then time to go after and regulate stuff rednecks like, like limiting hours of demolition derbies, or truck shows. If they are opposed to drag shows where nobody takes their clothes off, then time to shut down all the strip clubs. >
  
  I don't know. Trans and drag people (they're going after both with these regulations) where some of the biggest rebels during the original gay rights movements. Silvia Rivera is often said to have thrown the first shoe at the Stonewall Riots. Wether or not that's true, trans and drag queens were there fighting back against the police. I wouldn't put it past them to pick up arms if things got worse. >
  
  Will massage parlors be getting their hours limited? >
  
  Small government,  everyone! >
  
  New Democratic governor to veto it. Just rethuglican grandstanding >
  
  “The senator has changed the hours of operation to all the hours he’s not working so he won’t miss a second” >
  
  Something something party of small government and freedoms >
  
  Being from the UK, drag was always upmost and furmost for comedy. The dames in pantos or monty python or Lily Savage etc. US sexualising them to such an extent is baffling. >
  
  99% of the people hating on drag shows have never even seen one! >
  
  Small government republicans.
  What a fucking joke. >
  
  They must be tired of all those freedoms…. >
  
  Anyone else just tired of how backwards this country is? >
  
  Now work on keeping your 6yr olds from accessing guns. >
  
  They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war. >
  
  Republicans be haters of lives different than their own small world. >
  
  Watching that video was almost worth it >
  
  Sounds like drag queens need to consider themselves a church/religion and a drag show is a service which requires them to wear an appropriate frock. >
  
  Paging Pope RuPaul... >
  
  I belong to the Church of Bendela-Christ >
  
  What fucking Century is this? >
  
  Republicans are such a waste of space. >
  
  Christian hate strikes again. >
  
  Small government, control everything.., what? >
  
  "Let the free market regulate itself!" [Private business hosts a Family Friendly Charity Drag Show before 8pm] "This is outRAGEOUS!" 😡
  
  conservatives, literally >
  
  With all the serious problems in the country, it tells you a lot when some utter idiot decides that regulating drag shows should be number one on their agenda. >
  
  These assholes are really obsessed with trans people/drag. Getting pretty fucking annoyed with it.