Culture Warrior Ron DeSantis Announces Investigation Into Christmas Drag Show

The DeSantis administration in Florida has launched an investigation into a Christmas drag show that took place in the state, alleging that there was sexually-suggestive material in the show. Not only is that NOT a crime, but the show itself was off-limits to anyone under the age of 18, unless accompanied by their parents (who were repeatedly warned of the sexual nature of the show.) This is just more culture war BS from the governor that could wind up in tragedy, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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The DeSantis administration down here in the state of Florida announced this week that they were launching an investigation into a Christmas drag show that took place on Monday, December 26th of this week. The drag show, which took place at the uh, Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, was billed as an adult event. If you were under the age of 18, you could not buy tickets for it. Now, they did admit people under the age of 18 if they were accompanied by their parents. The parents made the decision, I'm okay with my kids going here. They were warned when they bought their tickets. Hey, there's some sexually suggestive material here. Not appropriate for the kids, but if you want to bring them, that is up to you, right? Letting parents choose. Isn't that the Republicans whole thing here in Florida? Let the parents choose what's best for the kids.

And these parents said, I'm okay with this. And then of course, they proceeded to complain to the state when there was sexually suggestive material, which they had been warned about when they purchased the ticket. So now you have the, uh, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigating this event that, again, was not designed for children and threatening the venue saying, if we find out something gross happened there, we're gonna take away your liquor license. We may even take away your ability to run a business here in the state of Florida, because oh my God, kids were at a drag show.

Now, as far as we can tell, there may have been sexually suggestive content, but there was no nudity, there was no forcing of sexuality of any kind onto anyone in that audience. That's not what happened. There was sexually suggestive material, oh God, go turn on A, B, C N B C, cbs b s or Fox, the actual regular entertainment networks on any given night. And guess what? You're gonna see that they have the little disclaimers in front of shows like, Hey, this may not be appropriate for children. You see it in R-rated movies that are aired on the, uh, cable TV and, and nobody bats an eye. But this event where they said, Hey, this thing is here, this sexually suggestive content don't bring your kids. Then people brought their kids, then they get about it. That's on the parents. But this investigation, this announcing it and publicizing that we're going after these people, especially after what happened in Colorado Springs. This could get people killed. This could cause another deranged

Lunatic filled with hate, fueled by Republican talking points. This could cause somebody else to go out there and kill. So far this year, there have been no fewer than 124 drag performances that have been targeted by direct threats in 2022. And 100% of that is because of the attacks from right wingers. If you think, if you think drag is sexualized, it's because you are sexualizing it. I've been to drag performances. Some of them are more sexual than others. Sometimes they do get crude and profane because that's part of the act. But it's an act. It's a performer up on stage. They're not doing it for your pleasure, if you know what I mean.