People protesting outside of gay bars to “protect children” from drag queens is as ludicrous as it sounds.
These venues don’t allow children. Children are not meant to be there. A food worker holding her kid in a club doesn’t mean the venue is for kids.
But they know that screaming and harassing people outside of a building where dozens of children are present—which would actually be relevant to their point, even if it’s dumb—wouldn’t look good.
And it also doesn’t achieve their true goal. It’s not about kids. It’s just the newest rebrand of ol’ fashion homophobia and transphobia.
They do not want us to have our own spaces. They do not want us to congregate in public. They do not want us to feel safe. They don’t want us in their neighborhoods or on their streets. And they have proven time and time again that they will use every means—including violence—to remove us.
“The kids” are an excuse and they always have been.