The Miami Herald published an editorial supporting child attendance at adult drag shows. Although widely disseminated, it was also reprinted in other publications, including the Orlando Sentinel. The interesting thing is that neither the Herald or the Sentinel published the editorial in Spanish-language sister publications. El Nuevo HeraldAnd El Sentinel (Orlando, South Florida).. Is that possible?
Subtly entitled, the June 15th editorial “Republicans like parental choice but aren’t keen on drag queens.“, This is enough to introduce and explain the concept.
In the past, queer people only had a few places to meet and drag queens were able to perform lip-syncing and impersonations of women in bars or nightclubs at the fringes of society. Today, drag queens are on TV, thanks to shows such as “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” social media and pop culture. South Florida’s drag Sunday brunches are a popular fixture. It turns out, that can be a problem for some Republicans.
Florida Gov. DeSantis and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio were distracted by children who attended a Dallas drag show. The children were seen strutting down the drag show’s catwalk and tipping each other, according to online videos. “Drag the Kids to Pride Drag Show” was advertised as a family-friendly spin-off of a local bar’s drag brunch commemorating Pride Month. The party for parental rights now wants the state to probe parents who bring their children to drag shows.
The primary reason behind this glaring omission is that running this editorial in Spanish would in fact expose Hispanics to the left’s ongoing attempts to normalize the attendance of children at sexually explicit drag shows. Good luck trying to explain to a socially conservative Hispanic family what the “it” is that “won’t lick itself”, or why they’re bigoted transphobes for believing that their grade-school children should neither be sexualized nor exposed to trans stripping.
But this omission is also emblematic of Spanish-language media’s continuing omission of stories that are unfavorable to the left, and further explains the community’s declining trust in its media institutions. A poll by Americano Media/FIU found that only 31% trust the corporate media establishment. It’s no wonder, then, that Hispanics increasingly go elsewhere to get the stories that they don’t hear in the outlets supposedly created to serve the community. The left can howl all it wants about “Spanish-language disinformation”, but the selective omission of an editorial that ran in the main English-language newspaper is as much its own form of disinformation as is Spanish-language media’s omissions of the Hunter Biden laptop saga, and incessant reporting of poorly-sourced stories that were unfavorable to President Donald Trump (Trump’s Taxes, Belleau Wood, “Suckers and Losers”, etc.).
El Nuevo Herald’s omission of the Drag Queen Editorial proves what we saw with a Soros-backed group’s recent purchase of 18 TelevisaUnivision stations, including Miami’s own Radio Mambí. The war on “Spanish-language disinformation” is, at its heart, a battle over control of the flow of information to Hispanics.
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