this logic is so irrelevant. no one promoting this sort of bill actually cares about this. they know full well that drag performance and theatrical cross dressing is perfectly fine and a type of performance. the stupid lists of plays you can’t do is absolutely 1000000% irrelevant to the discussion.
And talking about this hurts trans people. I have well educated; well considered; liberal freinds who i had to sit down and talk through the ramifications of this step by step because they have no idea what its like to be gnc in this world.
This is so they can criminalize being trans in public without running afoul of any thin claims of equal treatment and discrimination. Thats the point. The same way they used the drug war to criminalize being left or black; they are criminalizing drag to get at an ideology and a people they want to commit genocide on; but can’t openly.
Fascists do not care at all about the logic’d “gotcha” of the liberal thought. They don’t care. They found a way to get the result they wanted (criminalizing queer people) and they don’t care how silly they sound doing it so long as they have power.
Spare me these absolute miss the point liberal ass takes and talk about how now; anyone who is deemed too gender nonconforming and is even potentially in proximity to a child can be charged with crimes.
What kind of terminal theater kid Hamilton-brain do you have to have to see something like this and immediately think “WE HAVE TO WARN PEOPLE, THE PLAYS!”
Jeffrey Omura is a gay man of color, actor, political activist, and union organizer who speaks often about the current dangers faced by trans, queer, and gnc people throughout the country. these specific tweets are addressing the fact these laws will be censoring plays, many of which tell queer stories and feature queer characters.
whatever you think about these plays individually doesn’t matter. the censorship of art by and about marginalized people—or art that’s simply perceived as being about us—is deeply harmful. it denies marginalized people our voices and freedom of expression while also preventing others from hearing our stories and viewing us as human beings. it erases us from public view and history.
to act like Omura is an outsider looking into the LGBT+ community is an erasure of his identity. to act like worrying about the censorship of art is silly and trivial is ignorant. the censorship of art by oppressed groups is a critical component of fascism.
