RuPaul has slammed Republican lawmakers for attempting to ban kids from drag shows. At the start of June, conservative Texas Rep.
Bryan Slaton took to social media and announced his plans to block minors from attending drag shows. Slaton’s anti-LGBTQ+ stance stemmed from a family-friendly drag show that took place at the Mr Misster bar in Dallas, Texas.
Shortly after the lawmaker’s statement, other conservative officials announced their own plans to ban kids from drag performances, including Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ governor Ron DeSantis.
During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Mama Ru condemned the lawmakers and their harmful proposals. “It’s a diversion tactic to take the narrative away from the gun debate into something [else], to scare people into thinking about something else and they’ve been successful,” she said. “They have changed the narrative away from the gun debate into this drag queen thing. “Y’all want to help your kids?