Texas university students protest drag show’s cancellation

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Protests continued Wednesday at a university in the Texas Panhandle after the school’s president said a planned campus drag show wouldn’t be allowed and expressed the view that such events “discriminate against womanhood.”

WT Spectrum, a student organization for LGBTQIA students and allies, was recruiting participants for the March 31 drag show as a way to raise money for the Trevor Project, a group that works to prevent suicide among LGBTQ young people. Students supporting the show included Signe Elder, who called drag “an expression of self and of joy.” She toldOther students said they agreed with Wendler's stance. Alejandro Rivera toldthat as a Christian, he doesn't hate anyone but thinks that if the show had been allowed “we would see our society kind of become like degenerates almost.”

In his column, Wendler also compared drag shows to someone performing in blackface, saying he would also not support performances of people in blackface. Blackface dates back to the 1800s when white men would darken their faces to create caricatures of Black people.

 

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Good for this President!

Keep up the good work friends

Huge crowd there 😂😂😂😂

Finally common sense!

Free speach for me...not for thee. Mental health is gone. Insanity is the new norm.

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