After the shooting, conservative podcaster and transphobe Matt Walsh said that drag shows, like the one held at Club Q on the night of the shooting, exist to let queens “satisfy their fetish for cross-dressing in front of children” and to “indoctrinate children into queer theory [and]… turn your children queer, that is the goal.”
Ignoring the fact that Club Q only allows patrons ages 21 and up, his rhetoric matches those of armed right-wingers who have showed up to intimidate drag performers at restaurants of all-ages shows and library drag queen story hours.
“All of it is so horrifying, so perverse, so degraded… it’s so horrifying,” he continued. He then said that LGBTQ people’s claims that his rhetoric encourages violence are “invented out of whole cloth.”
He then revealed his true game by asking drag performers (or “disgust freaks” as he regularly calls them), if his words are really causing that much violence and chaos, why do they continue to hold drag events?
“By their version of events, it’s causing this much chaos and violence. Why do you insist on continuing to do it? …If the effort to have men crossdress in front of children is putting people’s lives at risk, why are you still doing it? Is that important to you?”
According to Walsh, drag performers shouldn’t exist because right-wingers who listen to him will just shoot up more clubs.
A recent social media post from @realloveconnie read, “The biggest danger of taking your child to a drag show is that a Christian could show up with a gun.”
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