Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere.
It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong.
From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt.
From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives.
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🍊ARTIST CALL OUT🍊
We are back on the 16th of May @GooseTheatre
Submissions are OPEN for our renowned scratch night until 16th April.
We are looking for scenes 10/15 mins in length and monologues of 5 mins.
Apply here: https://t.co/1OPQLh1BuQ
1. Lots of talk about the Pride Flag embassy ban.
I want to give context, as I reported heavily on anti-LGBTQ+ riders in the budget fight.
1) Biden/Dems deserve the criticism they are getting on this rider.
2) Over 40+ horrific targeted anti-LGBTQ+ riders died, except this one.
I know there's nothing new/interesting to say about The Kate Issue now, but it is still wiiiiiillllld to me that they made the Photoshop Fail HER fault instead of being like, "We are so sorry, our intern, Cuthbert Bottingsly-Smythe, was overzealous and has thusly been beheaded."
JK Rowling is doing it *again*.
She has pivoted to an alternate reality where the people providing evidence of the looting of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft are instead claiming that trans people suffered "more than anyone else" in Nazi Germany.
Provide one single example!
I don’t have to imagine the roles were reversed in my grandparents lifetimes AND WORSE.
I’m not even saying BLACKS ONLY I’m saying I’m inviting black ppl first! They can bring their white friends or lovers if they want. There’s no colour bar.
But one existed in the UK recently!
I literally do for all my shows not just blackout if you actually read anything about my work in the past.
Also @guardian@DailyMailUK@Telegraph and any other publications who want to lie to your readership about these nights the truth is here:
https://t.co/ssMdqRyJkN
In a slight rage over the moral panic that that a certain aspect of the British public have frothed up around Black Out Nights, two nights out of over a hundred, that have seen audiences members of all race in attendance over the last four years since its inception on Broadway.