Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes inclusivity and the inherent value of every individual.
Sasha Velour's quote highlights the importance of creating a welcoming space where everyone, regardless of their background or identity, is recognized as significant and worthy. It serves as a reminder that diversity enriches experiences and that every person has something valuable to contribute to the collective tapestry of society.
In practice
In a speech about acceptance during Pride Month.
I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more mainstream press coverage of our artwork and fashion, and more representation of our interests within politics.
What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.
Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.
Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.
There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag, and I think the audience is clamoring fighting with each other more and more to see drag represented as fully as it possibly can be.
Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let's do it.
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
In the hope to meet_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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