Drag Queen Show At Highschool

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Hi! I’m 15 and at my highschool we have a Mr. Spartan competition (because our school mascots are the Spartans). Several male students do funny comedy acts or similar things. This year one homosexual, male student is performing “school appropriate drag”. I am assuming that this would involve high heels, make up, and a wig. This seems wrong. Should I be morally opposed to this and does this violate Catholic Doctrine?

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There are a number of posts on the forum covering cross dressing, you can do a search. There’s nothing in the CCC about it being a sin. It may be a sign of an underlying sin.
 
This is a public highschool. I don’t think the person in question is trans, but he does call himself gay. I definitely think it is strange, but I wasn’t sure if it is morally wrong. Should the school allow this or would it violate some equality act?
 
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I personally do think it’s morally wrong, and before drag went mainstream, I think it was considered kind of a deviant shocking thing.
I would just avoid that assembly, if you can. Unless you, your parents, others want to try to . . . peacefully protest . . . it in advance. But you’ll just be villified.
 
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Thank you for your advice! I greatly appreciate it. I can’t avoid the assembly, but I will not clap or support it in a way like that

God Bless!
 
Maybe there’s some state law about exposing minors to indecent / prurient material? I would think a principal would be careful about anything like this.
 
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It was said it would be school appropriate and I highly doubt it would include obscenity. If it does go too far or if I feel that it was inappropriate for the school to have, I’ll be raising concerns with the administrators.
 
Thank you! After the event happens (tomorrow) I’ll let you know what occurred.
 
MrMaxwell said:
This is a public highschool. I don’t think the person in question is trans, but he does call himself gay. I definitely think it is strange, but I wasn’t sure if it is morally wrong. Should the school allow this or would it violate some equality ac
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Google 'Flip Wilson". I wouldn’t worry about it.
 
I wouldn’t allow it to concern me. As correctly identified in other posts, there are legitimate feminist objections to some drag shows. However, there is no reason to believe that this particular skit will be offensive in any way. The Catholic Church certainly has no teaching of which I am aware that prohibits males from wearing female attire for purposes of artistic expression or entertainment. Men and boys have worn female clothing on stage since ancient times. At all-male educational establishments, female roles in theatrical productions have often/mostly been performed by males. To the best of my knowledge, this has never been opposed by the Catholic Church or any other church.
 
do_justly_love_mercy said:
Men and boys have worn female clothing on stage since ancient times. At all-male educational establishments, female roles in theatrical productions have often/mostly been performed by males. To the best of my knowledge, this has never been opposed by the Catholic Church or any other church.
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It hasn’t been opposed in a purely entertainment context and assuming there was no obscene or blasphemous content in the act. There was no Church condemnation of movies and TV shows in the past that featured men dressed up in drag, such as the movie “Some Like It Hot” (which only got a “morally objectionable” from the Legion of Decency, and had a lot of sexual content in the film other than just drag) and Flip Wilson’s “Geraldine” character (who was very funny). More recently, in the 90s, there was a TV show called “Martin” that featured kind of an updated “Geraldine” character called “Sheneneh” who was also very funny.

Opposition to drag queens and drag shows nowadays seems to mostly be based on them promoting an LGBTQ lifestyle to minors. Some feminists also complain, and some LGBTQ people also don’t like the “drag queen” stereotype for one reason or another.

Since this is a public high school (not young children) and the guy putting this on is a student at the school and is doing a “school appropriate” act which I presume will involve the school making sure he doesn’t do anything edgy, to me this would fall more in the “entertainment” category and not in the “influencing minors” category. If you don’t like his act, then don’t applaud, but to me it’s not a big deal.
 
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I personally do think it’s morally wrong, and before drag went mainstream, I think it was considered kind of a deviant shocking thing.
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Historically, drag has mostly been a form of entertainment. For example, in 1936, Joseph “Joe” Finocchio opened Finocchio’s Club in San Francisco which featured female impersonators. As the article in Wikipedia says, “Both gay and straight performers worked there…Finocchio’s was a huge favorite with tourists from the 1930s to the early 1990s… Celebrities who attended shows at Finocchio’s throughout their many years of operation included Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Lena Horne, Joan Crawford, Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Carol Channing, William Haines, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Roddy McDowall, Liza Minnelli, Cher and Bette Midler among others.”

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For example, in 1936, Joseph “Joe” Finocchio opened Finocchio’s Club in San Francisco which featured female impersonators. As the article in Wikipedia says, “Both gay and straight performers worked there…Finocchio’s was a huge favorite with tourists from the 1930s to the early 1990s… Celebrities who attended shows at Finocchio’s throughout their many years of operation included Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Lena Horne, Joan Crawford, Barbra Streisand, Mae West, Carol Channing, William Haines, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Roddy McDowall, Liza Minnelli, Cher and Bette Midler among others.”
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My mom, the best Catholic I ever knew, went there when she lived in San Francisco. She told me about it more than once. It was considered an art form because the drag performers were very convincing, also very entertaining. In those days people didn’t go around announcing or asking whether the performer was straight or gay or trans or whatever. There have always been a number of drag performers who are straight.
 
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It was considered an art form because the drag performers were very convincing, also very entertaining.
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I think that this is correct. It is not my “cup of tea” to be honest, but many find it entertaining.
The phenomenan of “Drag Queen” however is a different beast. It is much darker and the peculiarity of emphasising feminine traits to a grotesque level e.g grotesque make up, grotesquely large and prominent breasts and overall grotesque trashy appearance indicates misogany and general contempt for women. I am at a loss as to why so many people fail to mention this.
 
It is inappropriate.

I really can’t see how people can say it’s nothing to worry about. Seriously.

I guarantee that today’s drag shows are an entirely different thing to 1936.
 
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MrMaxwell:
This is a public highschool. I don’t think the person in question is trans, but he does call himself gay. I definitely think it is strange, but I wasn’t sure if it is morally wrong. Should the school allow this or would it violate some equality ac
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Google 'Flip Wilson". I wouldn’t worry about it.
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Oh come on. You think Geraldine / Flip Wilson was a drag performance?
 
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It is inappropriate.

I really can’t see how people can say it’s nothing to worry about. Seriously.

I guarantee that today’s drag shows are an entirely different thing to 1936.
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Or even to 1958.
And to have to endure it for a school assembly? A captive audience? Why would any principal think this is acceptable, or a good use of school time?
I’m sure that part of the reason that finocchios was popular was because it was considered somewhat shocking, because “it wouldn’t play in Peoria”.
 
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