Living in a rural community, I definitely understand the pressure to be closeted. I also understand the constant, draining energy required to be out.

As to the drag queen thing, it's depressing and infuriating that the right is latching on to that as a tactic. Drag art is practically mainstream in much of the United States and there's nothing about it that's fundamentally inappropriate for children, unless being gay or violating gender dress norms are fundamentally inappropriate for children.

Which, of course, is exactly what the Right believe. Only they wrap up their opposition up in disingenuous talk about sexualizing kids – as if drag queens entertaining children are trying to be sexy. I don't know if people complaining actually believe that absurdity or if they're making it up because it's useful to them. I suppose it's a combination of the two.

But I would suggest that if they're really opposed to sexualizing children through public performance, they crusade against heterosexual beauty pageants.

Some of the same people who scream about drag art don't have any problem with pageants that feature women in skimpy bathing suits parading about a stage being sexy. Hell, some of them enroll their own kids in junior pageants.

So let's not pretend opposition to drag art is anything but pure homophobia.