Military Bans Drag Shows

Timothy Birdnow

We won one!

Pentagon bans drag shows on military bases after GOP pressure

Pardon, but why were drag shows being performed on military bases? 

Remember the slogan "be all that you can be" I guess they should have said "be all that you can be - and a little more too!"

A day before the Pentagon celebrated the June 1 start of Pride Month, top defense leaders were quietly enforcing a militarywide ban on drag performances.

The move became public after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley stepped in to stop a drag show at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., which had been scheduled for Thursday.

In enforcing the ban, which stems from a long-standing Defense Department policy that has not always been applied, critics say the Pentagon appears to have acquiesced to GOP pressure in recent months to cancel those performances at military installations.

Republican lawmakers, in hearings and letters to the Defense Department, have raged over drag shows and diversity programs, which they claim hurt recruiting efforts and compromise warfighting.

LGBTQ rights groups have slammed the apparent shift from the Pentagon, noting the U.S. has a long history of supporting drag shows going back to at least World War I.

Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said Austin has been "unwavering” in supporting LGBTQ groups, but by banning drag shows, he "chose to side with the politics of fear and discrimination peddled by extreme members of Congress.”

so now the trannies are crying like little bi, er, girls because they don't get to play dress-up in front of all those big strong soldier men.

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