Off-Topic Drag Queen and Assorted LGBTQ Grooming Omnibus thread - The long-overdue hall of shame

Taking the booze licence away works for hotels and venues. Probably need another administrative avenue for libraries…
My kids would have been terrified looking at these men.
Funny you mention a liquor license.

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At the same time, I’m not sure what you can do with a library.
 
Via LOTT: Portland Maine Deering High School ladies' groomer circle has coordinated a "queer joy" show for the kids by the "curbside queens"- nothing sus there.

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Maine news coverage (archive)

PORTLAND, Maine (CITC) — A high school in Portland, Maine has invited performers from "Maine's #1 Traveling Drag Show," the Curbside Queens, to hold a discussion for students on the "History of Drag and Queer Joy."

First reported by the Maine Wire, Deering High School's Extended Learning Opportunities program, which focuses on youth leadership and career development, announced the upcoming event on social media earlier this week.

"This a Friday! @deering_gsa will@be hosting #historyofdrag & queer joy discussion in Ms Eifermans class in 313. Be sure to sign up with Ms Eiferman or Ms Williams during learning center!" the social media post, which contained a flyer for the event, states.

The event, which is being hosted by the school's Gay-Straight Alliance, will be held on campus, according to the flyer. However, the flyer does not identify which age groups can and cannot attend.


Curbside Queens was established during the pandemic, meant to be a fun activity to boost morale during a time of great social disconnectedness. It eventually morphed into one of Maine's largest traveling drag shows.

In 2021, the group performed 85 shows in 20 weeks, according to the Curbside Queens website. By 2022, Curbside Queens was comprised of a "rotating cast of 8 of Maine's best drag performers," the group's website notes.

Today, a 50-minute Curbside Queens show would runs customers $250, with additional fees based on how far the performers have to travel.

One of the group's co-founders, Gigi Gabor, as well as another performer named Chartreuse Money, will be hosting the Friday discussion at Deering High School.

Critics of the event expressed outrage on social media, with one person suggesting a protest was being organized to take place during the event Friday outside the school.

"WoW tax dollars are really going towards this??? Schools should have no place for these types of events," one person commented on Deering High School's post announcing the event. "I'm all for supporting the LGBT community, but these types of performances are for adult content."

"I use to also work at the gay bars in Portland and find this appalling that drag performers are trying to push and preform these types of acts to young children," the commenter continued. "What's next the school system gonna start showing straight porn at the schools next for sex education??? There needs to be a line drawn."

The National Desk (TND) reached out to Portland Public Schools to inquire whether the district supported the event and learn details on whether there was any age restriction for who could attend. TND did not immediately hear back, but if a response is received, this story will be updated.

Let's discover who all the players are.

Ms. Eiferman is Spanish instructor Reva Eiferman AKA Reva Fisher.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/reva-eiferman-2a16a246/ (archive)

To Jack Eiferman and Fern Fisher on the birth of their first
grandchild, Ronit B Eiferman Powell, to parents Reva Eiferman
and Henry Powell.

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Along with our parents, Matt & Susan Powell and Fern Fisher & Jack Eiferman, we are happy to invite you to our wedding on Sunday, October 8th in Portland. Maine in the Fall is beautiful and we hope that you can join us for the celebration and enjoy a bit of Portland.



The wedding ceremony will take place in downtown Portland at 2pm, followed by dinner and a party at the Powell’s home in Scarborough, 20 minutes away. Make sure to check out the Transportation tab as we will be providing 2 different transportation options from the ceremony to the party.



We’re looking forward to seeing you if you can make it, and we hope you can! But we do understand that life gets busy, and a trip to Maine may not work out. Please let us know either way by September 1st on the RSVP tab at the top of this website.



In addition to the wedding on Sunday, here’s a breakdown of optional weekend events (these may change, so check back as we get closer to the date):



Friday Night: Optional 80’s dance party at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge in Portland (dress-up is encouraged), 9pm.



Saturday Night: Informal meetup at Bunker Brewing Company (17 Westfield St d, Portland, ME 04102), 830pm-11pm.



Sunday Wedding: Ceremony at 2 pm at the Maine Jewish Museum in Downtown Portland. Party following the Ceremony, starting around 330pm, at Matt and Susan Powell’s home in Scarborough, ME. Parking shuttle from a nearby lot and a bus from downtown Portland.



Monday: Casual Brunch, 1030am-whenever Henry and Reva's house, 60 Kenilworth St, Portland ME 04102. Bagels, fruit and coffee provided.

Reva Fisher Eiferman
60 Kenilworth St
Portland, ME 04102
10/14/1987
eiferr@portlandschools.org

Ms. Williams is Extended Learning Opportunities Coordinator Sydney Williams.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydney-williams-622bb5192/ (archive)
(She is married to some kind of loopy hotep named Patrick Abedi)

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lolfat

Sydney Paige Williams
04/19/1987
9 Wood Ave
Topsham, ME 04086
willis@portlandschools.org

"Teacher Olive" is Olive Prusakowski a she/they aka Olivia Prusakowski.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/olive-prusakowski-6713b8196/ (archive)

My name is Olive prusakowski, I am 23 years old and my pronouns are they/she. I do community engagement work for public transportation and my roommate (who will be staying) does active transportation work for Portland trails. We just moved here about a month ago so we have not found furniture for the whole place yet. he rainbow futon will be going with my current roommate who will be moving out. She also has a cat who lives here, so all of the cat stuff, and the cat :(, will be going too.

Looking for a third roommate who I can get along with but I also value my alone time. In my free time I like to hike, climb, read and watch anime/ other animated shows and also anything marvel :).
Used to be normal: https://montclairathletics.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/olivia-prusakowski/17161
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Well as normal as a high school jock dyke can be:
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Olivia "Olive" Prusakowski
Oct 1998
182 Grant St 3,
Portland, ME 04101

The drag troupe in question, in addition to their name obviously suggesting street hookers, features such stage names as "Spreadda LaJoy" and "Finn Gering." The leader, "Gigi Gabor" has a tiktok with such charming selections as this bidet demo:


(if someone wants to archive that be my guest, I am not in the mood)

Cow crossover with "Black Trans Girl In Maine": https://www.patreon.com/posts/miss-blackstones-59953184
Old article about him
Another one


"Gigi Gabor" is legally known as

Gordon Renell
05/06/1992
10 Deane St
Portland, ME 04102
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"Chartreuse Money" is Jake Boyce

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I spent way too much time putting together personal details for that Maine post because it's important that none of these people get to hide behind stage names and administrations DFE as soon as they shit the bed and FOX News starts calling.

It's also instructive- this one was almost a perfect example of the pattern. A young married mother with a completely conventional existence (wedding site, newborn getting welcomed in the synagogue). A fat edgelord straight woman who clearly married with an eye towards pissing off dad. But who is nonetheless enjoying the joys and protections of a conventional existence- biological offspring, dual incomes, a nice home. And then there's the little dyke faildaughter rooming with a bunch of other faildaughters, who wants to be special and get as far as possible from her origin as a typical Jersey child of privilege and Polish Catholic traditionalism. Finally there's the queens themselves- an overt degenerate creep whose predatory tendencies radiate off him like stink waves, and an insecure overcompensating mulatto protege.
 
Keep Austin Weird. No surprise there. That venue started off as a vegan bar, was way smaller and hosted a lot of punk shows and assorted sxsw events. I had no idea it turned into a gay bar. The library gets away with it since South by Southwest is being held in the city and they set up a booth giving away pamphlets, assorted swag and of course monetary support to the venue that ends up going back to the city. Here's an ad for the event:
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I know times be changin', but have they? I liked RPDR and watched the first 6 seasons, but that was the only exposure I had to drag queens. I ended up moving across from a drag club and thought it may be a fun place to grab some drinks and watch a show, but the clientele was not what I was expecting. There weren't bachelorette parties or other queens and gays attending, there were business-type men. If you didn't know any better, you'd assume it was just another strip club. Eventually, I met nice gay man, and after some chatting he invited me to his drag show later that night. I was all-in until he told me his performance has knife and needle play, and that he sticks needles through his skin and even lets some audience members poke him during the show.

My question is: did RPDR wash away as much degeneracy as possible to make drag more palatable for TV, or has drag evolved into this super freaky shock-value performance art that we're seeing now? Did queens ever advocate for child audiences before this "trans kids" era?
 
I know times be changin', but have they? I liked RPDR and watched the first 6 seasons, but that was the only exposure I had to drag queens. I ended up moving across from a drag club and thought it may be a fun place to grab some drinks and watch a show, but the clientele was not what I was expecting. There weren't bachelorette parties or other queens and gays attending, there were business-type men. If you didn't know any better, you'd assume it was just another strip club. Eventually, I met nice gay man, and after some chatting he invited me to his drag show later that night. I was all-in until he told me his performance has knife and needle play, and that he sticks needles through his skin and even lets some audience members poke him during the show.

My question is: did RPDR wash away as much degeneracy as possible to make drag more palatable for TV, or has drag evolved into this super freaky shock-value performance art that we're seeing now? Did queens ever advocate for child audiences before this "trans kids" era?
It has always been like this. He made a TV-friendly version but it was always a form of "adult entertainment" or burlesque at best.
 
How can we separate the doing it front a child aspect from the "its our rite to woman blckface" aspect. I think we need to equate it to a straight white male being as sexual as possable to a child to make them understand. Spittballing here but something like: #TwerkMyTuck

Edit: Sorry that is lame but is hard for me to even think of something so gross, But the idea is important.
 
I know times be changin', but have they? I liked RPDR and watched the first 6 seasons, but that was the only exposure I had to drag queens.
Most of these people are not "drag queens" in the traditional sense, but simply troons and often registered sex offenders.
 
Most of these people are not "drag queens" in the traditional sense, but simply troons and often registered sex offenders.

It was also frequently done as a form of cringe comedy.

Back then, jokes about cross-dressing people were rather frequent, even within the G-PG range.

It's only now that we have a problem. Because at best, it's accompanied by lots of vulgar humor, and at worst, it's blatant fetish pornography. We know it's most likely fetish porn, because "drag queens" actually get testy when you make fun of cross-dressers, even though that was the original point most of the time back then.
 
Based university president. He'll probably be forced to resign.
Walter Wendler, the campus president of West Texas A&M University, criticized drag shows as an event that demeans and diminishes women while canceling an event on campus.

Wendler sent out an email to the school on Monday announcing that the college would not be hosting a planned drag show charity performance titled "A Fool’s Drag Race" on Mar. 31. The performance was originally meant to raise money for the transgender crisis management non-profit organization The Trevor Project.

While Wendler supported donating money to the organization itself, he denounced drag shows as demeaning to women under the subject headline "A Harmless Drag show? No Such Thing."

"Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood. Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong," Wendler wrote.

He also compared the act of taking part in drag shows akin to "blackface" in terms of denigration.

"As a university president, I would not support 'blackface' performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor. It is wrong. I do not support any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others—in this case, women—for any reason," he wrote.

Wendler continued, "Forward-thinking women and men have worked together for nearly two centuries to eliminate sexism. Women have fought valiantly, seeking equality in the voting booth, marketplace and court of public opinion. No one should claim a right to contribute to women’s suffering via a slapstick sideshow that erodes the worth of women."

"Should I let rest misogynistic behavior portraying women as objects?" he asked.

Regarding school policy, Wendler stood by the promise that his university will stand by its policy to "provide fair opportunities" to individuals.

"[West Texas] intends to provide fair opportunities to all based on academic performance. Ideas, not ideology, are the coin of our realm. A university campus, charged by the state of Texas to treat each individual fairly, should elevate students based on achievement and capability, performance in a word, without regard to group membership—an implacable and exacting standard based on educational mission and service to all, sanctioned by the legislature, the governor and numerous elected and appointed officials," he wrote. "[West Texas] endeavors to treat all people equally. Drag shows are derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, no matter the state intended. Such conduct runs counter to the purpose of [West Texas]."

Students criticized Wendler’s email and later set up a petition to have the event restored, attacking the comparison to blackface.

"Not only is this a gross and abhorrent comparison of two completely different topics, but it is also an extremely distorted and incorrect definition of drag as a culture and form of performance art," the petition read.

A protest was also held on campus with students planning to hold additional protests every day this week in support of transgender rights.

Critics also claimed that Wendler violated school policy. According to the petition, the university’s policy read, "The university may not take action against a student organization or deny the organization any benefit generally available to other student organizations at the university on the basis of a political, religious, philosophical, ideological, or academic viewpoint expressed by the organization or any expressive activities of the organization."

Wendler did not respond to Fox News Digital for a comment.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas...g-show-saying-denigrates-women-akin-blackface
 
this shit fucks me up. power level, but i was in school to be a librarian in 2014 before everything shit the bed. thankfully i got detered by the horrendous pay in comparison to the amount of schooling you need to be one, but it's still fucking depressing to see the library, a place i love so much and think really is a necessary good for society, be used in such a disgusting way.
 
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