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@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames It’s just horrific what has happened in the past… and still continues to happen in some places today… and on the increase in others based on misinformation.

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Almost as evil as compelling the victim to wed the rapist like in the '50s

Danny La Rue was a female impersonator. Barry Humphries played Dame Edna as a comedy character. Les Dawson & Roy Barraclough played Cissie & Ada as comedic tributes to the women of their times. Kenny Everett played Cupid Stunt as an OTT American starlet character. Again not drag. Hinge & Bracket were old-school musical vaudevillians. Harris Milstead (Divine) was a character actor & part-time drag queen, whose act wanted to be taken seriously. Lily Savage (Paul O’Grady) was an old-school drag queen, whose act was based on the tough women he grew up with. Regina Fong (Reg Bundy) was another old-school vaudevillian, whose act was camp, very funny & inventive, relying on repetition of a routine that the audience would know & emulate. They’d join in. None of these performers exhibited a deep-rooted loathing for women, & yet are now tarred with the same brush as modern day “drag queens”. You CANNOT compare these artistes with the talentless, runway, slut-dropping, sashaying wannabes, that people refer to as “drag queens” today, many of whom lampoon & degrade women in deeply misogynistic ways. (See Ru Paul’s Drag Race). They are not the same thing. Style-wise, they have much more in common with the various Houses (LaBeija, ‘68, Corey, ‘72, Xtravaganza ‘82, Ninja, ‘82, Ebony ‘78) & the Tea Dances & later the Ballroom Dances of New York, where gay men would dress up & “throw shade”. Learn the difference.

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Or pregnancy from rape. Anyone that allows that against a woman’s will is just evil. As evil as the rapist.

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Never mind that the soon-to-br foetus might pose a risk to the mother-such as death

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames They have no concept they are ignoring an actual life that they claim to care so much about for a clump of cells.

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames They bleat on about it being an innocent child who deserves to live etc but they never seem to understand a woman's own circumstance physically or mentally

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Oh I’ve had my fair share of pro lifers to contend with! Mostly a crazy bunch who really don’t care about women one tiny bit. And many men amongst them too…. :/

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames You're starting something now-pro lifers are going to get you now uh oh You're cool by the way

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Every woman should have that right. The same as every woman should have the right to do what she wants with her body.

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Or here's another one-us women those of us who've got the guts to say I actually just DONT want them

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames No idea if those are the actual reasons but it seems to make sense. Plus countries like Japan and China put restrictions on the amount of kids you can have so therefore it’s now inherent in their mindset as a society… which now realises they need more births!

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames People don’t want to spend their money having kids! It’s hard enough to get by without them, let alone the costs involved. Plus as life span gets longer people enjoy doing things themselves and don’t want to be tied down by children.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Combine that with AI videos and faked images and it’s easy for the internet to spread hate and misinformation in a nanosecond. Many people don’t bother to fact check the stuff they read online either.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames The advent of the internet and social media has given those people an outlet and they can be around many others so they feel they are in a majority. The anonymity of people’s online persona means they say things they would never say in real life.

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames You don’t need to go back many years to hear people saying thing like: ‘this is a whites only space, that is to protect our safety and dignity’. Heard those words recently aimed at another minority group?

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Well it’s something that has now gotten to the point in many places where it’s seen to be hugely anti social. (Clearly there is still a lot of racism) but go back 40 years and people of colour were treated horrendously and it was seen in public as ‘normal and ok’, mostly.

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Hence why Heated Rivalry was so popular. It had a large heterosexual following too. Same with shows like drag race - they can’t get that big with just an LGBT+ following…

@ffenics @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Believe it or not some women actually enjoy seeing a sensitive male bromances or even relationships between characters develop in almost but not exactly the same way men used to enjoy "girl-on-girl"

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames … they try to rise again. I just don’t understand why people, especially the government, can’t just let people get on with their own lives who aren’t affecting others. It’s much easier to celebrate human diversity rather than try to restrict it.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames But equally we can’t let it go and not call it out. The right are currently allowing those bigots to feel justified in their discrimination and they are certainly enabling it more. As you say, they don’t go but it just becomes anti social, but as soon as there is an opening…

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Just look at whats happening in the US and the UK. It doesn’t take much for people to start questioning the validity of equal rights.

@ffenics @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Anyone that didn’t know Hugh, Ken, Danny, Benny Hill, etc ad infinitum was gay was already dead. The bigots did make life in public hard for same sex attracted people, and let’s be honest, even now those bastards still will if they think they can get away with it.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames In the UK in the late 80’s there was the first gay kiss on Eastenders and it caused a huge uproar. Thankfully now a gay kiss goes relatively unnoticed but there is still a few places where it gets called out. We aren’t there yet with equal rights.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames I too grew up in those times and personally I would have much preferred to see a better representation of the community on TV or in public. It was always very restricted and then in the 80’s we became synonymous with AIDS which was not a nice period to go through.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Sure there were some very happy times but I am glad that LGBT+ people of today don’t have to quite face the same issues we faced back then. People should be able to be free to be themselves and gay representation on TV should be loud and proud and not treated as a ‘shhhh’ thing.

@ROJINAAKTAR @ffenics @DreyfusJames Some men that I know still do, and some men are still horrified by the idea of same sex attraction, but throughout my life, being a gay man was less secretive than people might now imagine it had been, and most of us never felt the need to show that we knew who was gay.

@ROJINAAKTAR @SaysHoney @DreyfusJames Nobody has to be part of some LGBT+ gang FFS! We aren’t all clones! The existence of the LGBT+ umbrella is just a collection of minority groups that suffer the same discrimination and oppression.

@SaysHoney @ffenics @DreyfusJames Funnily enough must probably don't. A gay female friend of mine thinks Gay Pride is cringeworthingly pointless and discriminatory. More and more are beginning shun the LGBTQIA tag

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Yes in ‘67 the law changed from criminalising homosexuality to being legal only for those over 21. But then in the 80’s there was a huge push by the Thatcher government to push gay people back into the closet. It was only after a huge struggle did we achieve equal age of consent.

@SaysHoney @ROJINAAKTAR @DreyfusJames Thats what it’s all about. Being able to be yourself and not being abused for it in public just because one man or one women is holding hands with another.