I find myself once again mystified by the whole uproar among Republicans about drag.
Along with millions of other British children, we were taken by our parents to see a drag act every Christmas, and thoroughly enjoyed it, somehow without being turned gay in the process. We watched similar drag acts in every TV show around Christmas - I am, of course, referring to British pantomime or panto (and not the French mimes).
Even if you want to discount those seasonal performances, most successful comedians and variety performers of the 60s, 70s, 80s included drag as part of their show, or as common characters. Les Dawson, the Two Ronnies, Dick Emery, Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) and let's not forget those performers whose main resonance with the public was IN drag - Danny La Rue, Lily Savage...
They didn't make anyone gay, and they weren't any more vulgar or sexual than any of the rest of the mainstream entertainment of the time.
Nor were any of the centuries of entertainment preceding this. Shakespeare wrote some filthy stuff - if you've got a filthy mind - and so much of the act had to be drag, because of standards of the time, that it's written into the plot.
As a result, I can't watch the complaints about drag queen story hour without thinking that anyone upset by this must be savagely repressing a part of their own nature of which they are unnecessarily ashamed by others around them doing the same thing back to them. Or they're just hateful people constantly on the lookout for new groups to hate on. Either way, I don't want those people in my society. Shun, shun.