They Are Getting Bolder!

They accost you in the checkout line, they accost you in elevators, they accost you while you cross the road, they accost you when you least expect it, and they accost you in the hotel lobby…

Drag queen speaks out after anti-drag tirade at Hawaii hotel caught on video
"This is misogyny," a hotel guest can be heard saying in the video.
ABC News
By Kiara Alfonseca
June 29, 2024

Drag queen Marina Del Rey is speaking out after a video went viral of a woman yelling at her and other drag performers in a hotel lobby during Pride month.

"'It went from a point of view to an attack," said Del Rey in an interview with ABC News.

Del Rey said several drag queens were taking part in a promotional video for the ‘Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach on June 23. They were dressed up as staff members, acting out different roles in the hotels' operations when Del Rey said a woman approached them.

Del Rey said the woman began recording them and yelling that she was against drag and that she did not want her children to see them. Del Rey was shaken by the incident.

"This is misogyny," she can be heard saying in the video, which was reviewed by ABC News. "I am not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what's happening here."

From what I read everyone was just walking through the lobby when this lady has puppies. Totally freaks out, then she says…

She questioned what would happen if her son saw the drag queens and thought "that he can put on makeup and put on fancy clothing and high heels." She continued to make claims about the drag queens that have been criticized as offensive.

Whoa! I know what my reply would have been to "that he can put on makeup and put on fancy clothing and high heels." I would have said… “Go for it!”

She instead claims that the drag queens were harassing her because of the way they were dressed.

"I did not think drag queens should be in a space that's being used by children at the hotel lobby," said Bourne, who is also chair of the Yolo County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a conservative political organization. She said she was not speaking on behalf of the organization at the time. "I was a paying customer, and I didn't believe that we should have this. To me, it's an adult entertainment that's very sexual."

Lady, I am sorry you feel that way, but they are fully clothed, what happens when you take your son to the beach with all the "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" out there on the beach, do you put blinders on him?

"If you see something that doesn't seem right and isn't safe, you should say something," she told ABC News.

However, one, it is safe no one was getting hurt, there was no nudity, there was no obscene language so lady what wasn’t right? The only thing not right that I see in the video is a woman screaming and yelling at a person who was just minding their own business. Just because you don’t like something you do go and harass people. I don’t like opera, does that give me a right to go an accost people?

Also consider…

Del Rey said it was unusual to be confronted over drag in an "aggressive" manner because of the deep-rooted "mahu" community -- a term encapsulating the gender and queer spectrum, but originally refers to the third gender in Polynesian culture.

So once again an indigenous people's culture come under attack from the Judeo-Christian cultrue is trying to force it on the native population.

 “The video was upsetting, no question. I am proud of the performers from Hawai‘i’s LGBTQIA+ community who maintained their dignity and integrity in the face of such a hostile attack,” said Green in a statement. “This type of behavior is unacceptable. It is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone."

I have been to many drag performances including the coronation of the Empresses and Emperor, I never saw anything that was obscene or vulgar or any nudity. All they did was lip-sync to songs or do improv. For me it i just not my cup of tea... Now the Gay Men's Choir I liked, the gave a good show the time I saw them.

 

He gave an excellent interview...

 

In another interview on Hawaii News Now reported,

Bourne is back home in California and makes no apologies for her actions. “My feeling about the drag performers were not that the hotel was hosting them or filming them, but they were choosing to do it in a space that was being used by families, children, in a space that you wouldn’t be able to avoid,” said Bourne.

So she thinks we only belong in closets or some sleazy bar! Well lady we have our rights also!