Chicago Bulls: First In NBA East, Unmatched In ‘Dragging’ Culture Down

The Chicago Bulls rank first in the NBA’s Eastern Conference basketball stAndings and in putting on pride nights. You can be first or last depending on which point of view you have. They’ll show you how basketball should be played and how to stage the allegedly best darn halftime drag show going.

The Bulls enlisted “one of Chicago’s most talented drag queens to pull off a tribute to great moments in LGBTQ history,” Ken Schultz wrote of the bizarre event on Outsports earlier this week.

Schultz said that the Bulls were one of the most talked about teams in the NBA this year. “After showing other teams how it’s done on the court for the past three months, last week, the Bulls also set an example for the rest of sports about how to take a Pride Night celebration to the next level.” Wow, what an awesome fete to present to families in the arena.

Chicago didn’t just display a rainbow logo at center court, but went “all out in celebrating and embracing LGBTQ culture. The end result was a halftime show to remember.” To Schultz. We will all be trying not to remember. 

Brace yourself; this won’t be pretty.

Team mascot Benny the Bull served up “bovine fabulosity realness taking the court in a rainbow wig and tux.” He was flanked by the Luvabulls dancers adorned in rainbow colors. They performed a choreographed routine to make it “a full-on celebration of the LGBTQ community.” (See file photo of 2016 Bulls’ pride night above).

The Chicago Tribune Bulls beat writer Laura Poe gushed on Twitter about how Benny the Bull pretended “to officiate a gay wedding at center court with a drag queen presiding over the event.”

Schultz couldn’t contain his excitement any longer, comparing this extraordinary pride celebration to the Windy City’s huge annual Market Street Festival held each August.

Poe says that the Pride Night dancer was Aria B. Cassadine, a Queen of the Universe participant. The sordid show included “highlights” (Schultz’s words) of LGBTQ history from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing same-sex marriage, on the Jumbotron.

Broadway boys and Broadway artists J.T. Tony Guerrero, Horenstein and Tony Guerrero created the costumes and choreographed it. Tony also designed the costumes. Original music was composed by Bulls house DJ D.J. Flipside.

Completely partial in the culture wars and oblivious to how confused young children in attendance were by all these shenanigans, the Bulls issued a news release stating: “The purpose of the show was to commemorate the LGBTQIA community’s contribution to pop culture, music, and fashion and highlight drag—an authentic art form of the gay community.”

Forcing this outrageous “art” on all the fans present is highly questionable. One thing is certain: The Bulls’ halftime show was a real “drag” on the culture, a steeply downward drag.