Some members of the LGBTQ community in Nashville came together on Saturday for a private meeting to grieve and heal amid palpable and widespread fear since last week's school shooting.
“Many folks in the Nashville community were really very disturbed about the drag ban, because this is people’s livelihood,” said“It was so that we could celebrate, we could come alongside our drag family in solidarity, show support.”
Seaver — who goes by the stage name Mx Mona Von Holler and has been performing for 14 years — said that while the law targets drag and other performers, “at the end of the day, all of these things are attacking trans people, and gender queer people and LGBTQ people and that is the part that is the scariest.”She said that all of the focus on the gender identity of the shooter takes away from the broader issue of gun violence and mass shootings in America.“Our children’s lives are at stake.
Sadler co-runs a weekly drag brunch in the suburbs of Nashville. Ahead of her show on Saturday, friends told her to be careful and that they were worried about her. Sadler said “people are always going to feed off of hate” and weaponize the shooter’s gender identity to feed anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
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