Lack Of Interest Shut Down A Pennsylvania Drag Show. Local Democrats Blamed It On Republican 'Hate'

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/30/lack-of-interest-shut-down-a-
pennsylvania-drag-show-local-democrats-blamed-it-on-republican-hate/

While organizers wanted to blame nameless bigots, they admitted ‘a low
number of vendors and volunteers’ contributed to the cancellation.

Until relatively recently, Chester County, Pennsylvania, was reliably
Republican. Countywide offices are now held by Democrats, in part because
years of competent administration attracted many upper-class white liberal
refugees from the increasingly costly and dysfunctional counties that
contain Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.

The county seat of Chester County is West Chester. With a population of
20,000, it has been run by Democrats for over a decade. The borough
council, in coordination with the West Chester Business Improvement
District, planned its first “OutFest” for Oct. 1 in celebration of
National Coming Out Day. Two blocks of the city’s downtown would showcase
no fewer than eight drag queens over four hours. Predictably, members of
the public made their opposition known to borough council president
Michael Stefano, who described the emails he received as “hate-filled” and
“vitriolic.” Of course, none of the “dozens” of messages were made public,
and the local press accepted his characterization without question. These
protests led to the cancellation of OutFest.

At least, this is what left-wing activists on social media want us to
believe. Stefano inflamed their ire: “I was kind of naïve to the fact that
there’s still a lot of people out there who have hatred for people who are
different from them.” While he wanted to portray opposition to the event
as evidence of so-called homophobia, it was clear that, according to the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the protesters took “particular issue with the fact
that drag queens were set to perform.”

Stefano made no distinction between “accepting of the LGBTQ community” and
city sponsorship of a public political event that conveyed messages
parents might not want their children to hear. Stefani Steel, a drag queen
who describes himself as a “Northern East Coast Whore” on his Instagram
page, was scheduled to perform. He revealed to the Inquirer his desire to
spread queer culture to previously uncorrupted communities: “having queer
events in new areas is super important to all of us.”

Eddy Foster, who is now organizing a replacement event, did not help his
cause when he linked drag performances to “pride” parades: “There have
been drag queens at gay events, at Pride, at OutFest, across the country
for 40-plus years,” he said. “This is something that goes hand in hand.
It’s normal and we’re not going to act like it’s not.” Pride parades have
never epitomized modesty or good taste, nor have drag performances, and
both are wholly inappropriate for children. The whole point of events like
this is to normalize queer culture and to vilify and silence anyone who
objects.

Steel told the local CBS affiliate that he modifies his performances if
there are children in the audience. If there are children, he says, his
performance is reminiscent of a Disney character. Dressing like Minnie
Mouse, however, is unlikely to convey the queer message the organizers
intend. A recent, scandalous drag show attended by children in Dallas,
Texas, only confirms the ill-advisability of such public performances.

While bigotry is a handy excuse for the city council and social media
activists to use as a cudgel against their critics, the actual reasons for
the event’s demise are less politically convenient. While the organizers
wanted to put the blame on nameless bigots, a statement announcing the
cancellation admitted that there were “many logistical challenges that
contributed to this decision, including a low number of vendors and
volunteers to make it a successful event.”

Organizers also claimed that because of a few dozen objections, security
needed to be increased, “despite the absence of any threats.” The largest
police department in the county was either too ill-prepared to meet the
challenge or too expensive given the available budget. So while the very
progressive Democrat townsfolk did not want to subsidize or participate in
the first city-sponsored drag show, it was a four-sentence post on the
local Republican Committee Facebook page that was blamed for shutting
everything down.

The post read in part: “If you feel this is inappropriate as we do, please
make your voice heard to borough council.” For daring to “petition their
government for the redress of grievances,” the local committee received a
torrent of “hate-filled and vitriolic” outbursts from supposedly tolerant
leftists. Meanwhile, Stefano admitted that no one who emailed him
mentioned any association with the Republican Committee.

It occurred to no one that the city’s marketing had successfully reached
citizens with minds of their own. Republican residents do not have the
power to cancel anything the Democrat city council proposes without
support from their liberal neighbors.

Around the country, opposition to leftists forcing their sexual agenda on
children hasn’t been only from Republicans. Glenn Youngkin won the
governorship of Virginia last year in part because parents across the
political spectrum rose up against the crazed ideologues who run the
state’s public schools. It turns out that doing the right thing — in this
case, respecting parents and protecting children from sexual predation —
can unite people who under normal circumstances would find themselves on
opposite sides of the political divide.



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