{"id":15604,"date":"2009-11-13T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15604"},"modified":"2009-11-13T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:59:16","slug":"drag-queens-against-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15604","title":{"rendered":"Drag Queens Against the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in joke-overload at the moment after reading an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-funk\/dialogues-against-militar_b_353803.html?\">Huffington Post<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Funk\">Stephen Funk<\/a> another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivaw.org\/stephen-eagle-funk\">IVAW member<\/a> who didn&#8217;t serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. Funk is obviously doing his level best to make the IVAW into a larger caricature of itself  than it is already;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the first show I debuted Consuelo Sintetas (named after my grandmother) [<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>sin tetas<\/em> is Spanish for <em>without breasts<\/em>. I&#8217;m sure his grandmother is proud.], in the second a dozen other veterans joined me to &#8220;Make Drag, Not War!&#8221;; a night of anti-militarist performances by IVAW members and a talented cast of performers including Suppositori Spelling, Raya Light, Garza, Miss Rahni, Lil Miss Hot Mess, fAction, and SF Boylesque.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Drag Queens Against the War is a far more accurate description of the membership than Iraq Veterans Against the War, and it would probably give them more media exposure, but if this is their way to legitimize the organization, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll work. And I&#8217;m not sure how Army Sergeant would fit in at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the anti-war movement already has representation of the drag queens &#8211; Code Pink. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in joke-overload at the moment after reading an article in Huffington Post by Stephen Funk &hellip; <a title=\"Drag Queens Against the War\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15604\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drag Queens Against the War<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}