At Roxy's in #Minneapolis #Minnesota for our #datenight #dragisart #DragShows #RoxysCabaret
More pictures coming up.
#DragShows
Ma soirée te va trop bien par DJ POMPOMPOM
Toï Toï le Zinc, vendredi 6 mars à 20:00 UTC+1
[Show puis DJ sets Afro]
Un événement pensé pour le public de DJ POMPOMPOM qui a besoin de soin, d'amour, de douceur et de danser jusqu'au bout de la nuit. Au programme, artistes drag, lecture de texte, des poèmes et DJ sets.
DJ POMPOMPOM DJ set Kuduro / Baile Funk / Dembow Geek capverdienne et mélomane, DJ POMPOMPOM diggue depuis son enfance. Influencée par la musique lusophone grâce à ses parents et ses propres goûts éclectiques, elle se découvre en 2019 une véritable passion pour la musique électronique. A peine 6 mois plus tard, elle remporte son premier DJ contest. Depuis, elle enchaîne les tremplins et les scènes dans toute la France ainsi qu’à l’international. Inspirée par la communauté queer – à laquelle elle appartient – elle est invitée à jouer lors de plusieurs marches des fiertés, puis pousse son engagement avec la création en 2024 de son collectif Afroqueer Oshumaré, qu’elle a cofondé avec la performeuse & artiste drag Satine.
DJ résidente à Radio Beguin et organisatrice d’ateliers d’initiation au DJ. Elle oeuvre activement pour plus de représentation et d’accessibilité dans le monde du DJ et des arts en général. DJ POMPOMPOM crée des sets uniques où l’on retrouve notamment du Reggaeton, du Kuduro et du Funana. Des moments de libération, où elle mêle ses premières amours musicales à ses dernières découvertes pour créer des instants de communion intense qui resteront longtemps dans les mémoires. Instagram
Satine Née en Martinique, je porte en moi la trace des vents, des souffles, des feus, des contes, des mythes, des territoires sensibles qui sculptent le syncrétisme créole. Mon travail se situe au croisement des arts visuels, du drag, de la danse et s’articulent autour de nombreuses problématiques queer. Diplômée des Beaux-arts (de Lyon) je me suis axée dans mes recherches autour des gestes, des étymologies et des héritages afro-caraïbéens. C’est ainsi que j’explore l’image comme espace pluriel où la mémoire et la présence s’entremêlent. Sur scène, je déploie le corps comme vecteur d’émotions avec un langage à part entière, capable de raconter ce que les mots ne disent pas. Cette alliance entre visuel et performance me permet de créer des univers hypersensibles, parfois fragmentés par la realité, où la poésie et la physicalité s’enrichissent l’une l’autre. Instagram
Yax Ferri Venti BIO/ Drag King comédien Franco-Tunisien passionné par les mots et leurs pouvoirs, Yax Ferri Venti utilise l’écriture et l’art du King tant pour militer, que comme exutoire. Auteur d’un seul en scène et maître d’atelier, il parcourt la France avec sa moustache, ses poèmes, ses sketchs et son histoire, celle d’une personne trans, adoptée à l'international et racisée. Instagram
Lauryne Lopes De Pina Lauryne est une artiste multidisciplinaire. Comédienne, autrice, danseuse, peintre (liste non exhaustive). Elle aime chercher des moyens multiples pour se raconter/rencontrer. Originaire de la Guadeloupe et du Cap-Vert, elle puise son inspiration dans sa culture créole. Ces poèmes reflètent ses désirs, ses manques, ses révolutions et son héritage.
Asfar Asfar est un Drag King passionné par la mise en scène. C'est entre les villes de Safi et Lyon qu'il grandit et développe son amour pour le cinéma. Il troque désormais sa caméra pour une moustache le temps d'une performance pour y exprimer ses combats, sa rage, ses peines et ses joies. instagram
Miel Dezabey Miel Dezabey est une artiste pluridisciplinaire d'origine caribéenne et franco-espagnole qui lie mots du dehors et poésie de l'intérieur pour faire écho au réel. Son art est politique et libérateur, à l'image de son identité lesbienne, queer et noirx. Créativité et joie sont ses armes de choix, dans sa vie comme dans son militantisme. Impliquée dans les milieux associatifs queers et antiracistes, elle a aussi cofondé un collectif qui place le care pour la communauté QTI noire et racisée au centre de ses préoccupations. Tantôt en anglais, tantôt en français, iel vous invité dans son univers du belleau et de l'intimement collectif.
Open platines Des DJ novices préselectionné.es par DJ POMPOMPOM viendront mixer sur scène pour une de leurs premières expériences.
https://agenda.villemorte.fr/event/ma-soiree-te-va-trop-bien-par-dj-pompompom
Canceled shows and record lows: How Trump is killing the Kennedy Center
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-kennedy-center-cancellations
Komm vorbei, feiere mit uns und lass uns diese Reihe gemeinsam gebührend abschließen! Wir freuen uns auf dich!
#geilegala #psychoanalysisunveiled #hannover #künstlerhaus #queerevents #dragshows #trans
#lgbtqia #kulturinhannover
#sonderforschungskollektiv #itshellgbaby
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s warnings about a “demonic” drag show are part of a wider pattern targeting institutions he claims are hostile to Christianity. Civil liberties advocates say this framing misuses state power and endangers religious freedom for minority faiths.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/12/a-demonic-drag-show-may-signal-a-new-religious-liberty-front.html
#pagan #witchcraft #demons #dragshows #dragperformers #florida #religiousliberty
LOCAL MOVIE CELEBRATES THE QUEER HISTORY OF CANADA
Parade: Queer Acts of Resistance is an unflinching documentary which charts the rise of Canada’s 2SLGBTQIA+ rights movement through first-person testimony. Princess Twin Cinemas had one showing of the film on July 7 at 7 p.m. Rare archival footage of riotous acts and revolutionary drag shows is shown.
“I remember reading about the gay activists in 1969, with the Stonewall riots, and thinking that was like me,” Richard Fung, a queer video artist who was interviewed in Parade and founder of Gay Asians of Toronto, said.
It can be heart-breaking to see the parallels of a desperate need for social advocacy from the 1960’s to the modern day. Over 50 years have passed and yet some footage and sentiments expressed by the subjects remain true. In 1971, Toronto Gay Action and WeDemand organized the first national protest march in Ottawa. They wrote a document which listed the grievances of the queer community against parliament.
“Homosexual men and women in Canada are fed up with being the butt of other people’s jokes. We are fed up with the lack of basic human respect due to all human beings,” Charlie Hill, a WeDemand activist, said.
As a queer journalist, I found the most importance in learning about how 2SLGBTQIA+ matters were reported on in The Body Politic, a magazine written by queer people for queer people. It achieved a reputation nationally that was very rare for smaller publications in those days. They covered stories of people who were being arrested in bathrooms, at their jobs and out on the streets.
“But I think Bill C-150 actually dramatically changed the conversation. From something that was the love that dared not speak its name to something that was on television,” Tim McCaskell, a gay writer said.
With Super 8 footage interspliced with commentary from people who were in the marches, Parade is a very riveting film that both educates and empowers. It covers the way queer people were pushed from out of the closet into the streets.
“Lesbian organizations were popping up all over the country. And it was a time where we needed to separate from gay men, because the fight we were fighting felt very different as women and as feminists,” Robin Tyler, a lesbian comic, said.
The film continues its relevancy as it speaks about a Right-Wing American activist named Anita Bryant, who openly spoke out against the rights of queer teachers. Many Canadian queer activists were outraged at her coming to Toronto to speak, as they were worried of the influence the United-States politics would have at home. I found it poignant when the editorial staff of The Body Politic green-lit an article called “Men Loving Boys Loving Men,” which led to the Toronto Sun writing a scathing article on the contrary.
“It’s not the sort of thing that I want the homosexual groups to get into the schools, which is really the main area they want to get in, they’ll tell you this themselves and preach their gospel of homosexuality to impressionable kids. I don’t want that to happen,” Claire Hoy, a Toronto Sun journalist, said in Parade.
The part of the movie which spoke to me the most was section called “Hello Here I Am.” It focused on the lives and actions of queer Black and Brown people in Toronto. The young activists of the 1980s were rallying against police action after “Operation Soap” and the bathhouse raids took place. This was the catalyst for the visible and predominantly white queer community to start working with the Black and Racialized communities of Toronto in solidarity against police brutality.
“It was the first organization that was specifically looking at people who are not white. You know ‘If you’re white, you’re right. If you’re brown, turn around.’ There just was no space for people of colour,” Tony Souza, an organizer for the Bathhouse Raids Demonstration, said.
The film is a love letter and tribute to the elders and activists that paved the way for 2SLGBTQIA+ people today. The Director Noam Gonick captures a gritty look at Canada after the 1969 Amendments and the decriminalization of homosexuality.
#2SLGBTQIA_ #billC150 #Canada #claireHoy #dragShows #feminists #gayActivists #Ottawa #paradeQueerActsOfResistance #PrincessTwinCinemas #robinTyler #theBodyPolitic #torontoGayAction #wedemand
#Dragshows tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 14. Sitzung des 21. Deutschen Bundestages am 26.06.2025 auf. Es wurde im Rahmen der Rede von Ulrich von Zons (AfD) gesagt.
Video: https://de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-0210014028?q=Dragshows
Tonight at Flipside Speakeasy: Orpheus’ Hideaway! 7:00 - 9:00pm, first come first serve, $5 entry fee, doors open at 6:00pm. We can’t wait to put on a great show for y’all tonight. Happy #worldpride DC! #flipsidespeakeasy #delraypizzeria #drp #dragshows #dragqueens
The annual on-campus drag show at Texas A&M University welcomed hundreds Thursday night — despite efforts to ban such performances by school officials.
#EducationNews #LGBTQ #Local #News #Politics #Texas #DragShowBan #DragShows #Draggieland #Lgbt #LgbtqIssues #TexasAM
A female friend just described "drag" as offensive to women and effectively "gender blackface".
It took a moment for it to register, but now I get it.
🚨 Lending libraries of masks, high quality air filters, & UVC lights to help mitigate the spread of the #Covid virus & make indoor public events safer:
“I started ... because I don't want to see all my friends disabled in the same way that I have been,” they say. “If you lead with a solution, people are sometimes more open to hearing about what the problem is in the first place.”
#CommunityHealth #CleanAirClubs #Drag #DragKings #DragShows #LosAngeles #Australia #LGBTQ
https://www.them.us/story/drag-artists-organizers-vodi-safety-lgbtq-spaces
[Paywall - article copied in contents] Negative response to first #WindhamMaine #Pride event prompts #DragQueens to cancel performance
#Drag Queen #ChartreuseMoney said a man she didn't know told her that attending the event would put her life at risk. Organizers say it's just one example of the pushback they've received.
by Rachel Ohm, May 31, 2024
"A group of drag queens that was scheduled to perform at a Pride celebration in Windham this weekend has dropped out of the event after community pushback and a threatening encounter prompted the performers to question their safety.
"'Unfortunately, because people in the town haven’t been standing up and being vocal enough in fighting this #hate against #queer people and people in drag, there’s just been this community of hate that has truly terrorized us,' said Chartreuse Money, one of the drag queens who had been scheduled to perform Sunday.
"Money, who asked to be identified by her stage name because of safety concerns, said she was approached by a man she didn’t know in a bar in #PortlandMaine last week and was told not to attend the event because her life would be in danger. She said the encounter shook her and was a key reason she and other drag queens dropped out of the #TogetherWeRise event.
"It’s the first Pride celebration to be held in the town and came about in response to a contentious debate in the school district last year about whether #books with queer storylines and characters should be allowed in classrooms.
"And while the overall response has been positive, there has been pushback from a small number of people, said Kate Turpen, board president of Windham & Raymond Pride, which is organizing the event.
'There’s a lane of amazing support that I’m so grateful for, and then there’s a lane of threats and closed-mindedness,' Turpen said. 'Due to the #ClosedMindedness and use of social media with reckless abandon from some of our neighbors, we don’t have the privilege of having a drag show anymore.' But the festival will go on, Turpen said.
"The cancellation of the drag show is just the latest example of the negative response some communities have seen as Pride events in Maine and elsewhere have grown in popularity. Protesters showed up at an inaugural Pride event in #GorhamMaine last year and residents in #UnityMaine circulated a petition trying to ban Pride decorations on town property.
"A record amount of legislation attacking LGBTQ+ rights has advanced in recent years, according to the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU], and the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a warning of potential violence last month in advance of Pride Month activities.
"#GiaDrew, executive director of #EqualityMaine, an organization dedicated to education and outreach in support of LGBTQ+ people, said there are more than 31 Pride events scheduled in Maine in June during Pride month.
"'That’s wonderful and I think it’s a wonderful show of support for the #LGBTQ community, especially in light of some of the national pushback on our community and some of the pushback our community has faced here in Maine,' Drew said. 'But with that comes some safety considerations. We definitely know last year there were some really targeted attacks and push back and hurtful language.'
‘I NEEDED TO IMMEDIATELY GET OUT’
"Money said she was in a bar in Portland after a performance last week when a man she didn’t know approached her and asked if she was planning to perform at the upcoming Pride event in Windham. The man leaned in close and told her not to go to the event, Money said. He said he couldn’t say anything more than that there was a threat and that Money’s life would be in danger if she went.
"Not long before she left, Money said she was shaken by the exchange and noticed the man was lingering outside. She felt him stare at her from his truck before he drove off.
"'I didn’t know if he was warning me of the threat or if he was an active threat,' Money said. 'I needed to immediately get out of the bar.'
"She said she called police in Portland and Windham when she got home and the next day got in touch with the organizers of the event. She also reported the incident to the FBI.
Windham police Chief Kevin Schofield said Thursday that his department was able to identify the man who approached Money and he did not appear to have any information about a specific threat.
"'The statements were made in the context of there’s most likely going to be some protesters and there were some opposing comments made on social media, not in the context of any direct knowledge or inside information that someone is going to be targeted,' Schofield said.
"Schofield said police also have been made aware of 'some opposing views and comments' being made about the event on Facebook, but 'nothing we would call a direct threat to any specific individual.'
"He said police have been working with organizers for months and will be at Sunday’s event.
“Our goal is to be prepared and facilitate a safe event for all attendees,” Schofield said.
DECISION TO DROP OUT
"Money said the threatening exchange along with other pushback and issues related to the event factored into the drag queens’ collective decision to call off their show. 'We decided the best way we could go forward with having Pride in Windham and being safe, was to have the performances cease and not happen anymore,' Money said.
"Money said the drag queens and organizers had a meeting on Zoom Wednesday. One performer brought up a social media post about a man saying he was planning to make shirts to impersonate event volunteers. And Money said she was concerned about some aspects of how the town of Windham responded to the event, which is being held on town property though the town was not involved in organizing it.
"She said that after some people started criticizing the event, the town asked the drag queens to sign #LiabilityWaivers saying they wouldn’t hold the town liable if they were hurt or injured during the event. Money said that seemed unusual.
"A spokesperson for the town of Windham said officials were not available Thursday afternoon to answer questions about the event, including the reason for the liability form and if it is standard, and whether the town has a position on the event.
"Turpen, the Windham & Raymond Pride president, said that what happened to Money was just one example of some of the pushback organizers have gotten. They’ve had to rethink their volunteer strategy because of the concerns about someone trying to impersonate volunteers. There have also been calls for people to speak out about the event at town council meetings, Turpen said.
'It’s disappointing to me that a vocal minority is influencing the perception of this opportunity for our residents,' Turpen said.
"The reaction and the decision for the drag queens to drop out of the event also has disappointed some residents and officials.
"'To have the intimidation and #bullying kind of shut down part of it, it’s just a shame,' said Jarrod Maxfield, a town councilor. 'I don’t think that should go unanswered or that we shouldn’t let the public know. I think the public should know. We want to encourage people to come despite that bullying and intimidation. The show – at least part of it – is still going to go on.'
"Drew, from EqualityMaine, said her group works with communities and organizations on event planning and how to be safe. She also encouraged people who are the target of threats or bias to reach out to police, or if they don’t feel comfortable doing so themselves, to reach out to #EqualityMaine to advocate on their behalf.
"Drew said the majority of Mainers are understanding of what it means to be LGBTQ+ but there is still work to be done.
"'I do think some of the misinformation or stereotypes or lack of familiarity is raised in some of the rhetoric we’re hearing,' she said. 'That’s definitely part of our work (to address that) ... but I do believe we’re making progress and I think most #Mainers support #LGBTQ+ people.'"
#DragShows #MainePride #Maine #BookBans #NoRoomForHateInOurState
#Policy comes after Gov. #KristiNoem (R) instructed the #BoardofRegents to take action against “#liberal #ideologies” (Viewpoint #Censorship) on #college #campuses, including asking the #board to “#remove all #references to #preferredpronouns in #school #materials” and #ban #dragshows on #campuses. Gov. Noem appointed all nine of the #voting #members of the Board of Regents.
This seems like an act of revenge on the part of #KristiNoem because some of the tribes in South Dakota have banned her from their lands. Personally, I think the faculty members have a good case for violation of #FreeSpeech...
#Pronouns and #TribalAffiliations are now forbidden in #SouthDakota public university employee emails
"The policy is billed by the board as a simple branding and communications policy. It came only months after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem sent a letter to the regents that railed against '#liberal ideologies' on college campuses and called for the board to ban #DragShows on campus and 'remove all references to preferred pronouns in school materials,' among other things."
By MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 5:40 PM EDT, May 24, 2024
"A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping #NativeAmerican employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.
"Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted in December by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
"'I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,' Little said in an email to The Associated Press. 'I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’ If my tribal affiliation and pronouns were not removed after the 5 days, then administrators would meet and make a decision whether I would be suspended (with or without pay) and/or immediately terminated.'"
Read more:
#Russia #Arrests #Gay #Club #Managers in First #LGBTQ+ ‘#Extremism’ #CriminalCases.
The two individuals face up to 10 years in #prison if found #guilty of “#organizing #DragShows (#extremist #activities.)”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Russia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #FuckRussia #FuckPutin #EmptyThePews
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