A historic Anglican Church in the heart of London will for the first time put on a drag queen performance featuring former RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestants to “celebrate artistry and ingenuity in every walk of life”.
In the latest “thought of the week” published on the church’s website, St James’s Digital Communications Officer, Derrie Shurville, said that she first “got the drag bug” when her girlfriend insisted that she watchDefending the practice from a “feminist perspective”, Shurville: “Drag is about a minority putting on make-up to express and explore their identity or to express their art in this, that can be read as ‘controversial’, way.
She insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that drag queens “are not copying women” but “revealing an aspect of themselves or they are sharing their art with other people.” “They are also sometimes pointing out the ridiculousness of gender and the rigid walls that surround it,” she added. “Drag is, among other things, about refusing to accept those stereotypes on clothes and the way men and women are apparently supposed to look, which I absolutely concur with. It’s a type of activism that I fully support as a feminist.”
What exactly drag has to do with Christianity or indeed why the church would host such an event was not explained by the communications officer in her post.
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