didn’t pick up her phone a single time for the four-hour pageant,” her mom later told me. was wearing the bright blazer I had given her and sitting beside her mom, mouth agape. “You should come.”Ī few weeks later, at the pageant, I scanned the crowd from behind the stage curtain. “Am I allowed?” she asked, looking incredulously at her mom for confirmation. if she was coming to the pageant, and her eyes lit up. Whipping up moral panic about drag queen story hours at libraries is part of a broader war on LGBTQ lives.īefore I left that day, I asked Q. There’s a reason politicians are at it again Opinion Opinion: Policing drag has a long history. “For reference,” she said, draping the flag so that we could see it as we worked. rushed to her bedroom, emerging a minute later with a pride flag that had been hanging on her wall. “What is the order of the colors again?” Q.’s mom asked me. The design on one of my costumes involved sewing strips of fabric into a pride flag. As we worked with the hoop skirt and glittery tulle, Q.
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Q.’s mom taught me how to sew when I was preparing for my drag pageant. Her mother teaches her how to use mascara and nail polish and takes her to salons to wax the hair on her upper lip, yet it’s not safe for her to fully emerge. She is remarkably tuned in to the national conversation and the ways the adults in her life are either fighting loudly for her right to exist, or are silent, or worse. has privately celebrated legislative victories for LBGTQ+ people, and she has mourned the many bills passing through Missouri’s government that put queer kids and adults in danger. is also not out to her grandmother or her brother, who mostly lives in another state with his very devout father and stepmother.
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