It’s now halftime.
Football game ends and beginnings have been separated by batons and brass for decades.
A pile panache was used by a Vermont high school to upgrade its game-night food.
Marching band, you can’t step to this.
The Associated Press
A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime, with…a big crowd in rainbow colors to cheer them on.
When I was in school, the word “sexuality” wouldn’t have been officially uttered. Burlington High, however, has its Gender Sexuality Alliance.
The group’s leader — Ezra Totten — praised the spectacular’s success:
“The stands were completely packed. … It was just so heartwarming to see.”
And they all got an eyeful — per the AP, participants “[paraded] in gowns, wigs and makeup.”
Perhaps the best part: The show’s cast was “a mix of students and faculty members.”
South Burlington High High’s students also got to enjoy the wonderful foray.
Imagine it.
As school cheerleaders wrapped up their routine, about 30 students and faculty members dressed as drag queens and kings — or a bit of both — walked out onto the field and the crowd started to chant, “Drag Ball!”
To show their support, performers paraded and danced in solidarity with LGBTQ people. They also lip-synced to singer Todrick Hall’s “Rainbow Reign.”
Satisfy your curiosity:
For more Todrick, check out “Rainin’ Fellas” (featuring NSYNC’s Lance Bass — Warning: Nudity and Adult Content) and “Wrong B****.”
To be clear, the show wasn’t Ezra’s idea.
Credit goes to the Alliance’s adviser, English teacher Andrew LeValley.
The hot ticket was explained by the teacher with the help of stage veterans:
“We had some people that are pretty involved in theater come in and talk about how you put on a persona.”
And Andrew assisted in the rainbow’s reign — he dressed in a wig and burgundy Shakespearean gown.
His inspiration, per the AP: “Lady Macbeth and Marie Antoinette.”
Instructor wanted to have a night full of entertainment and exposure.
“I was just really hoping to give our students — who are both out and the students that were in the stands who are not out — a moment to shine and feel loved, and know that there is a place for them in public schools.”
The evening was unlike any other. Not only were pupils and employees padded and poking out in a panoply of proud pageantry; the event occurred…on homecoming.
That was Athletic Director Quaron Pinckney’s idea.
Pinckney, who is Black, said that the school gave him the space to “uplift my voice” and that he was able to reciprocate and “uplift the voices of another marginalized group and share a space in the athletics realm that doesn’t normally get shared.”
The times are changing, as we have seen previously.
Imagine a man suggesting that women dress like girls and then lip-sync for the low seats. This was just a few years ago. And surely few would’ve guessed any school would go along.
However, sex has evolved with society.
According to the AP the show was a great success.
Lauren McBride, principal of Burlington High School, said she heard a dad talking to his two sons at the game who didn’t know that the drag ball was going to be the halftime show.
She heard him explaining to them what dressing in drag means, “and it was like, ‘This is really cool,’” she said.
Every generation is unique.
The current generation of teens seems to be all about gender switching.
In the past, there were friendship bracelets and mood rings.
An update:
Mindfullness epidemic pic.twitter.com/Xr50WaJsrb
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 26, 2021
Will the seriousness of changing one’s gender identity on a dime — a sort of mid-day drag show about to start at any moment — give way to the canceling of drag?
Is art the new blackface of the arts?
It remains to see.
For now — at a public high school in Vermont — it’s raining men.
For women.
They are still able to be called that.
Debra Messing Celebrates Women Having Vaginas; the Woke Attack; She Admits Women Don’t Have Vaginas https://t.co/MVmIcZTAcI
— RedState (@RedState) March 12, 2019
-ALEX
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