{"id":92137,"date":"2023-12-24T17:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92137"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:31:20","slug":"drag-triumphs-over-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/12\/24\/drag-triumphs-over-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag Triumphs Over Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida governor <strong>Ron DeSantis <\/strong>launched his \u201cWar on Drag\u201d by enforcing a law from 1947 \u2013 which stated that men impersonating women is too indecent for children.&nbsp; So he ruled that drag queens fell under \u201cadult entertainment\u201d, and if a minor were there, you could be fined\u2026or worse.&nbsp; People claim this started as a way to stop drag queens from reading stories to kids in libraries \u2013 and let that sink in.&nbsp; It had unintended consequences.&nbsp; Stage musicals like <strong><em>Hairspray<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>La Cage<\/em><\/strong>, and most of <strong>Shakespeare<\/strong>\u2019s plays feature men dressed as women \u2013 and they could be shut down.&nbsp; Drag queens in gay pride parades in public could be arrested.&nbsp; Then the Orlando franchise of <em>Hamburger Mary&#8217;s <\/em>restaurant filed a suit against the governor and the State of Florida for infringing on their First Amendment rights.&nbsp; And they WON!&nbsp; <strong>U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell<\/strong> ruled, \u201cThis statute is specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers.\u201d&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t overturn the law, but it does make it unenforceable.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, the phenomenal <strong>Jinkx Monsoon <\/strong>made <em>Broadway <\/em>history by playing Mama Morton in <strong><em>Chicago<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Jinkx was sure to let people know she didn\u2019t do it alone.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m following in the footsteps of my sister <strong>Peppermint<\/strong>, who broke ground as the first <strong>Ru <\/strong>girl, drag queen, trans woman to perform on <em>Broadway <\/em>in <strong><em>Head Over Heels<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And now I get to take the torch and do my own thing with it.\u201d&nbsp; Speaking of torches, flaming <strong>George Santos <\/strong>made history by being elected to the <em>House of Representatives <\/em>and being thrown out within the same calendar year.&nbsp; Perhaps he\u2019ll go back to doing drag\u2026anywhere other than Florida, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis launched his \u201cWar on Drag\u201d by enforcing a law from 1947 \u2013 which stated that men impersonating women is too indecent for children.&nbsp; So he ruled that drag queens fell under \u201cadult entertainment\u201d, and if a minor were there, you could be fined\u2026or worse.&nbsp; People claim this started as a way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92142,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92137\/revisions\/92142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}