The Rainbow Defense Coalition and other groups are combating right-wing attacks on drag queen story hours, drowning protesters out with dance parties.
Mayson has been defending his rights since he came out as gay in 1982, and when he first started going to gay bars, he said the drag queens were the first people to take him under their wings. He has since hosted bingo, trivia, burlesque shows, stand-up comedy, open mic nights and a gospel drag brunch.
“Here we are, again, having to fight for the same rights that we’ve already secured,” Mayson recalled thinking at the event last month. “Now, they’re knocking on this door and they’re trying to say, ‘You can’t do what it is you’re doing,’ even though my neighbors want it. Even though the city is embracing us. And everyone who’s coming here is having an amazingly good time.”
To Heil, they were not fighting the protesters. They were singing and chanting to preserve their own joy. Heil kept thinking of his younger self, he said, the kid who in middle school knew he was trans but did not have the vocabulary for it. When he finally met a trans man while in high school he realized: “Oh, that’s me.”
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