Paxton, a Republican who has run on a campaign to halt the expansion of LGBTQ rights, called for drag show prosecutions the week before early voting started. All of the state’s top GOP elected officials are up for reelection this year. The protests in Texas ramped up in June, national LGBT Pride Month, and have continued into the midterm election season. “It’s joyful - and that’s part of what makes it scary.” “It challenges the bigger narrative of queer life and queer youth as depressing, at risk, suffering, sad,” she explained. In Texas, more than 8% of adults now identify as LGBTQ, and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimates one in five of the more than 46,000 same-sex couples in Texas are raising children.Īs one of the most vibrant - and visible - queer art forms, drag sows fear among people unready for these shifting demographics, Gutterman said. Nearly one in four people 18- to 24-years-old identify as LGBTQ, more than twice the rate of the generation before them, according to recent U.S.
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