Not a Drag Queen in Sight

Every single day there’s another headline.

Another “good Christian man.”

Another pastor.

Another worship leader.

Another youth minister.

Another self-appointed guardian of morality.

And somehow…

not a drag queen in sight.

Which is fascinating, because if you listen to the loudest voices in conservative media and politics, you’d think drag queens and trans people were lurking behind every corner trying to destroy civilization.

They talk about it like it’s some kind of national emergency.

Drag queens!

Trans people!

Woke culture!

The horror!

Then the headlines roll in, day after day, and somehow the villain of the story is almost never the person they warned us about.

It’s a pastor.

A church leader.

A “family values” politician.

A youth minister.

A guy who’s spent years lecturing everyone else about morality.

Cue the mugshot.

Before someone starts clutching their pearls and screaming that I’m attacking Christianity, let me explain something.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

Tulsa, specifically.

Right down the street from Oral Roberts University… which locals lovingly call “Six Flags Over Jesus.”

If you grew up anywhere near that world, you know exactly the kind of environment I’m talking about. Churches everywhere. Mega churches. Storefront churches. Churches that looked like stadiums. Churches in strip malls.

And growing up gay in that environment?

Well, the messaging was pretty clear.

Something was wrong with me.

The solution was simple: pray harder. Invite Jesus into your heart. Repent. Fix yourself. Pray the gay away.

So like a confused little religious tourist, I tried everything. Baptist. Methodist. Pentecostal. Non-denominational. If a church had a cross and a parking lot, I probably wandered into it at some point.

I tried religions the way Madonna tries new looks.

Surely one of them would fix me, right?

Except eventually something dawned on me.

There was never anything wrong with me.

What was wrong was the system telling millions of people that they are automatically morally superior simply because they belong to the “right” religious team.

When people start believing they have a monopoly on righteousness, weird things start happening.

Accountability disappears.

Hypocrisy thrives.

The people screaming the loudest about “deviance” suddenly seem to be the ones showing up in the headlines for the worst possible behavior.

It’s projection. Plain and simple.

Meanwhile drag queens are… reading books to kids at libraries.

The contrast would actually be hilarious if it weren’t so damaging.

While certain politicians and Christian nationalists are busy whipping up moral panic about LGBTQ people, real harm keeps being exposed in places that were supposed to be safe: churches, youth groups, religious institutions that insist they alone hold the moral high ground.

This doesn’t mean every Christian is a bad person. Obviously that’s not true.

The people who have spent the last several years screaming about drag queens “grooming children” might want to pause for a moment and look around.

The pattern in the headlines is getting harder and harder to ignore.

Every time another story breaks, I find myself asking the same question.

Where are all the drag queen mugshots?

Because once again…

not a drag queen in sight!

Xoxo, AB 💅💄💋