{"id":624974,"date":"2023-04-02T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/vanessa-williams-rants-at-glaad-awards-drag-queens-are-not-murdering-people\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:14:00","slug":"vanessa-williams-rants-at-glaad-awards-drag-queens-are-not-murdering-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/vanessa-williams-rants-at-glaad-awards-drag-queens-are-not-murdering-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Williams Rants at GLAAD Awards: &#8216;Drag Queens Are Not Murdering People&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"ContentW\">\n<header>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1250054843-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Visage and Vanessa Williams at the 34th GLAAD Media Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 30, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Mark Von Holden\/Variety via Getty Images)\" title=\"GettyImages-1250054843\"><figcaption><cite>Mark Von Holden\/Variety via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>Singer Vanessa Williams said in a recent interview at the GLAAD Awards that \u201cdrag queens are not murdering people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGLAAD Awards ain\u2019t killing anybody, drag queens are not murdering people. We are a wonderful community,\u201d\u00a0Williams told\u00a0Billboard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqFjc58yu6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Vanessa Williams Praises Beyonc\u00e9's 'Renaissance' &#038; More | GLAAD Media Awards 2023\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Williams also explained that she was at the\u00a0GLAAD Awards to serve as a judge alongside <em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> judge Michelle Visage for Paramount+\u2019s drag singing contest <em>Queens of the Universe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are judging drag queens on the daily which is so much fun, but also, having a point of perspective where we are gathering for people, for humanity, when it seems like the rest of the world is falling apart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>During the GLAAD Awards ceremony, while presenting the award for Outstanding Documentary, Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2023\/03\/31\/vanessa-williams-glaad-awards-drag-queens\/\">reportedly<\/a> told the audience that she will not allow her LGBTQ friends to be sent \u201cback in the closet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand here tonight in allyship with the LGBTQ community,\u201d Williams said. \u201cOver the years I\u2019ve watched my LGBTQ friends shift from silence and fear to confidence, advocacy, and non-stop pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I am not about to let a politician, a so-called journalist or any kind of hater push my friends back in the closet,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Drag shows, particularly with children in the audience (or worse, on stage) have become a massive cultural touchstone, particularly since the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2022\/07\/08\/drag-queen-story-hour-activist-admits-subverting-traditional-understandings-sex\/\">Drag Queen Story Hour<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/drag-queen-story-hour\/\">2015<\/a>. After a series of shocking viral videos showing men rather conspicuously imitating stripper moves at \u201call-ages\u201d drag shows, lawmakers in several states moved to ban these performances in the presence of children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\"><\/figure>\n<p>One such law passed in the state of Tennessee and is currently on hold due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2023\/04\/01\/judge-blocks-tn-law-aimed-at-protecting-children-from-seeing-drag-shows\/\">legal challenge<\/a>. Various Hollywood power players went apopleptic over anti-drag bills. Actor Billy Porter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/03\/22\/billy-porter-melts-down-over-laws-protecting-children-from-transgender-ideology-drag-queens-were-already-in-a-civil-war\/\">ranted<\/a> on\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>, \u201cWe\u2019re already in a civil war, y\u2019all. It\u2019s a civil war of the mind! They\u2019re messing with out minds! We\u2019re already in it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producers for <em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/03\/30\/nolte-rupaul-producers-oppose-laws-protecting-kids-drag-queen-grooming\/\">decried<\/a> the Tennessee law after its passage, saying that the legislators behind it \u201care a threat and we must take them seriously.\u201d The show\u2019s star, RuPaul, chimed in,\u00a0\u201cDrag queens are the Marines of the queer movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks of this sustained outrage, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a queer individual who believed she was a male, stalked the halls of Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, where she killed three children and three adults before she was successfully taken down by authorities. Hale was not a drag performer.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats have posted imagery about menacing \u201canti-trans\u201d Americans with guns in the aftermath of the mass shooting. A press secretary for Arizona Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/03\/29\/report-katie-hobbs-press-secretary-resigns-after-tweet-about-pointing-guns-transphobes\/\">Katie Hobbs<\/a> lost her job after posting a gif of a woman threatening someone with pistols, captioned, \u201cWhen we see transphobes.\u201d Days later, Wyoming House Minority Whip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2023\/04\/02\/wyoming-democrat-minority-whip-posts-meme-grandma-shooting-ar-15-protect-transgender-people\/\">Karlee Provenza<\/a> (D) posted a meme of a woman (named \u201cAuntie Fa\u201d) gleefully holding a gun, captioned, \u201cProtect trans folks against fascists &#038; bigots!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can<\/em><em>\u00a0follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/04\/02\/vanessa-williams-rants-at-glaad-awards-drag-queens-are-not-murdering-people\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Johnathon Menjivar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Von Holden\/Variety via Getty Images Singer Vanessa Williams said in a recent interview at the GLAAD Awards that \u201cdrag queens are not murdering people.\u201d \u201cGLAAD Awards ain\u2019t killing anybody, drag queens are not murdering people. We are a wonderful community,\u201d\u00a0Williams told\u00a0Billboard. Watch Below: Williams also explained that she was at the\u00a0GLAAD Awards to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,21961,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financial","category-vanessa","category-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}