Weeks after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one would assume lawmakers in the US would be working on gun control legislation and keeping children safe.
Instead, one Republican Texas State Representative Bryan Slaton has found a new target – drag queens.Slaton, who describes himself as a “Christian Conservative”, announced on social media that he would be introducing a bill to ban drag queens around minors. “The events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend,” Slaton said in a press statement.
Again one would assume he is talking about the elementary school shooting in Ulvade Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Slaton was actually referring to a family-friendly drag queen bruch event in Cedar Springs, Texas, “Drag Your Kids to Pride”, which was attended by children along with their adult guardians.
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