The Minneapolis City Council just passed a resolution protecting drag performance and drag culture as free speech.
The governing body of the Minnesota city presented the resolution on Wednesday morning, with Council President Andrea Jenkins presiding over its signing.
Jenkins, the first ever openly transgender Black person ever elected city council president, proclaimed, “Love is love” prior to speaking about the resolution and added they were “so proud to be able to present this resolution today.”
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Jenkins then read from the text of the resolution, which featured several points detailing the historical prevalence of the drag community, how it is currently a form of expression and a profession for many people of “all gender expressions and all races.”
The resolution also noted that drag has “been used as a form of political protest in response to instances of discrimination, homophobia, and the targeting of the LGBTQ+ community through policing, community harassment, and brutality.”
The text expressed the city’s commitment to protect modern drag expression from current forms of anti-LGBTQ discrimination, stating, “The City of Minneapolis uplifts efforts that protect and promote drag culture and transgender lives, such as the creation of West Hollywood’s drag laureate program and the repeal of New York’s ‘loitering for the purpose of prostitution’ law; and we celebrate the important legacy of all drag artists who have offered their creativity and generosity for generations to support community-building and healing to not only the LGBTA+ community but the broader community as well.”
Jenkins and several of those standing with the council president took turns reading the text of the resolution aloud to the chamber. After they finished, one of the drag queens who was present gave a few words, calling the passing of the resolution “pretty spectacular.”
He mentioned that he has “longtime friends” in the community who live in Florida and Tennessee and that their livelihoods are “being threatened and they are afraid of laws that are being introduced, and some have passed.”
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