Life experience and good judgement. I don’t need to be warned about nudity going into strip clubs during Mardi Gras or Gasparilla (hard to find) I don’t need to be warned about cursing going to sporting events or sport bars or violence watching nature shows or at the movies. Don’t need to be warned of sexual titillation of tv shows or wet t shirt contests or at the beach. Don’t need to warned about animals mating at the zoo and on and on. For some reason visions of snow angles dance in my head.
It was. I'm suggesting you reserve judgment until see you actual videos or photographs of what was going on during the performance complained of in the OP. Were the performers actually pretending to be going at it or just a few hand gestures?
Just implement a rating system similar to what the MPA does with movies including a description of what content caused it to get its rating. Contrary to what some of our fringe righties think, these shows are not trying to get people to attend under false pretenses just so they can gross them out. Nor, as the whackos are suggesting, are they doing this to "groom" children.
This is a bombshell. Burying the lede, wg! When the historic Plaza Live theater in Orlando hosted an event last December called “A Drag Queen Christmas,” the show drew a full house, noisy street demonstrators — and a small squad of undercover state agents there to document whether children were being exposed to sights that ran afoul of Florida’s decency law. The Dec. 28 performance featured campy skits like “Screwdolph the Red-Nippled Man Deer” and shimmying, bare-chested men who wouldn’t have been out of place at a Madonna concert. Also a hip thrust or two, similar to what is sometimes indulged in by NFL players after a touchdown. All of it was dutifully recorded by the undercover agents on state-issued iPhones. But while the agents took photos of three minors — who appeared to be accompanied by adults — at the Orlando drag show, they acknowledged that nothing indecent had happened on stage, according to an incident report obtained exclusively by the Miami Herald. “Besides some of the outfits being provocative [bikinis and short shorts], agents did not witness any lewd acts such as exposure of genital organs,” the brief report stated. “The performers did not have any physical contact while performing to the rhythm of the music with any patrons.”
Is that the old Plaza twin theatre? That was my favorite place to watch movies because they had the best seats EVER! Used to be outside of the smaller Mall on SR50 if I remember correctly. Not Fashion Sq Mall but, I want to say Colonial Mall? Had great video arcade and an outside pet store as well.
Its right off 50, near the TG Lee factory now called "The Milk District." Its where that singer got shot and killed by a crazed fan the same weekend as the Pulse shooting.
On the topic of drag shows, West Texas A&M University President pens an email about why he's banning a student-run drag show that was intended to raise money for a charitable organization. You'll be shocked to find out that he word vomited his religious beliefs all over the page to justify his censorship. WTAMU is a public university. Let's just say he dun goofed.
Yeah that’s pretty bad. He did bring up an interesting point. I’m quite sure it isn’t a good faith argument as his intentions are clear with all of his religious references. But nonetheless, one could argue that men, dressing up as women in an exaggerated and heavily stereotypical fashion in some ways is like one ethic group imitating another ethic group in a mocking stereotypical way. So it’s ok with gender but not ethnic group? For the record I could care less, but it was an interesting argument, which I’m sure he hijacked for convenience
It's an absurd argument. The reason ethnic groups are off limits is because of the history. And even that isn't strictly true. Tropic Thunder is a good example, as is White Chicks in reverse (which also included drag, with Black men playing white women). Nobody thinks the intention behind Mulan was to mock men or Mrs. Doubtfire to mock women in any sort of malicious way.
Yeah conservatives demanding the government mandate what are effectively trigger warnings is ironic. I mean seriously, if I didn’t want my kids exposed to sexualized content I would not go to a drag queen show. I’m trying to visualize all these supposed conservative parents who take their kids to a drag queen show and are then shocked due to the content. Drag queen show warning labels is a solution searching for a problem. Kind of like putting “do not drink” on a bottle of bleach. oh….wait….
Pic is gone. Regardless, artistic expression cant be hampered for a baker uet wide open for a drag show. Its neither or both. Again, we are not asking for the drag show to be prohibited. Nor should anyone want to prohibit a baker... Or graphic designer... Or painter... Or sculptor... Etc
The baker also ran afoul of public accommodation laws, or at least that was an important component of that case. So it’s not entirely the same. Not really the same at all without that public accommodation aspect. You are just choosing to focus 100% on artistic expression, because that fits your narrative, when in reality that case was more of an intersection between public accommodation/nondiscrimination laws and free expression. The Fundamentalists aren’t claiming they are being discriminated against here, as that gay couple was in the baker case, rather they are just purely trying to shut down these shows they don’t like.
Repeated for emphasis: The DeSantis administration is so invested in the culture wars, that they didn't worry about whether or not anything indecent happened, they still attacked.
I'd also like to emphasize that apparently the state of Florida has secret agents who have nothing better to do than infiltrate drag shows to foment culture wars
