Scholars at West Texas A&M College held a protest Wednesday of President Walter Wendler, who wrote in an opinion piece that “drag displays are derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, regardless of the mentioned intent.” He additionally wrote that “drag displays stereotype ladies in cartoonlike extremes for the amusement of others.” And he canceled a drag display at West Texas A&M.
Dozens of scholars waved homosexual satisfaction flags and held indicators that integrated the sayings “Girls for Drag,” “Drag Is Rad” and “Everyone Say Love" on the Wednesday protest, the Related Press reported.
WT Spectrum, a pupil workforce for LGBTQ scholars and allies, used to be recruiting members for the March 31 drag display to boost cash for the Trevor Undertaking, a bunch that works to forestall suicide amongst LGBTQ younger folks.
A petition in prefer of the display had just about 4,500 folks signatures by way of Tuesday. By means of Thursday morning, it had greater than 8,800 signatures.