After decades of steadily moving into the mainstream, drag has abruptly become an object of moral panic for much of the U.S. right
. At least 14 states have passed or are considering laws that would crack down on it. The bills are raising fears that new legislation
Now, the Texas legislature is mulling a series of bills that would either severely restrict drag or ban it entirely. “It feels likeDrag queens Miss Taint and Naima Jackson at the Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio on March 3.“This is not what America’s about,” said King Robinson, 30, who performs as the Queen Fantasia, over tacos in San Antonio’s Pearl district, a collection of repurposed 19th-century factories. “They are trying to make you wear a uniform.
One bill in Texas would ban minors from watching any performance in which someone “exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth.” Another would cut funding to public libraries that host drag queen story hours. Ironically, several anti-drag politicians have themselves been revealed to have previously dressed in drag. A high-school photo of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee shows him wearing a cheerleader’s outfit, a wig and pearls. In an online video, Nate Schatzline, a Texas legislator backing the anti-drag bills, skips around a park while wearing a black dress.Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America
To many in San Antonio’s LGBTQ community, the anti-drag legislation is tied to Republican efforts in recent years to curb the rights of transgender people. Texas legislators have attempted to restrict which bathrooms trans people can use, and to make it harder to obtain gender-affirming care.
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