On Drag Kids and Drag Story Time, I don’t see any kids, even 11 year olds, changing their sexuality because they see either of these events. I would expect that the majority of kids, who think they may be any thing other than heterosexual, would run away from anything that brings attention to them. Most teenagers do that except for seeking attention from their peers.

Mate thinks that it is fine for teens and pre-teens to go onstage if they want to, and that it depends on the child. I agree, but I also do not think that many of them would be comfortable going on stage. Thiis partly because they are so uncertain about themselves through their teens and into their 20s, 40s and 40s. Also, in our society, there is a significant minority of people who would come out of the woodwork to torment those kids. That may be a far larger statement about the ugliness of that group of people than about the kids who would be brave enough to go on stage.

The loudest voices expressing outrage over anything not heterosexual are in my view likely repressing homosexual tendencies that they are afraid to examine within themselves. It’s always amusing when the most outraged conservatives get outed. E.g Larry Craig.

Corporate America is trying to embrace gay people because Corporate America has recognized that gay people make up a sizable portion of the public at large and the pool of employees. Only with a radical right wing revolution will gays be pushed back into the closet. That would only be one aspect of a radical right wing revolution that we should all fear.

So, that’s my view of a tempest largely in a teapot.