after the “reorientation” of their reading, the drag queens cancel their visit
The case is not over. After the “reorientation” of a reading led by drag queens in Toulousethe latter have decided to take action to report the town hall’s decision to ban access to their event to young audiences following opposition from the group Furie Française and far-right activists.
In order to counter the censorship in which we encountered Mr. Moudenc’s decision, we have decided to cancel our visit to the José-Cabanis media library”, announce Shanna Banana and Brandy Snap on their social networks.
A sponsored petition
And to add that their reading session scheduled for February 18 in the Pink City will be rescheduled “under the organization and support of structures other than the town hall of Toulouse” and “open to all without age limits. “. For now, the location and times of this meeting are not known.
According to both drag queens, this controversy has shed light on “the place given to the moral order in the cultural landscape”. “Hate will never win,” they add. Furthermore, a petition was begotten to sustain them. About 1,400 signatures were attributed this Friday morning.
The threat posed today by a small identity group on the freedom of Shanna and Brandy, the Toulouse media library and the MJC Roguet must be taken seriously”, indicating the authors of the petition, considering that it “calls for a response from the authorities to ensure the safety of the artists”.
“Enemies of Democracy”
Calling for “a citizen response from all those who remember that since the dawn of time the enemies of democracy have been burning books and censoring artists”, the petition indicates that a reading session is being held on February 4 at the MJC Roguet, in the Saint-Cyprien district, as well as “in another Toulouse MJC” on February 18.
Let’s be responsible citizens and methods, each in his place: culture and artists in the heart of the city, the nauseating ideas of the far right in the dustbin of history”, concludes the petition.
Lies in the press and compromise with the extreme right: the true, reactionary and conservative face of @jlmoudenc
Finally he was in his place at the head of the procession at the demo for all.
We denounce the nauseating censorship of a reading event. https://t.co/EWoOekCaz4 pic.twitter.com/z3OoKJIBoa— Maxime Le TEXIER // 🅜🅐🅧 (@maxletex) January 25, 2023
the announcement of the town hall to authorize the reading session only to an adult public “for the sake of appeasement”, several elected officials of the municipal opposition are upwind and denounce the “censorship” suffered by Shanna Banana and Brandy Snapwhile recalling the participation of Jean-Luc Moudenc, in 2012, in the movement of La Manif pour Tous, opposed to homosexual marriage as well as to PMA for lesbian couples or even adoption for homoparental couples.
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