The news is full of attacks on drag queens. Across the US, far-right groups are calling the LGBTQ+ community “groomers” and throwing hissy fits over drag storytime and queer characters in Disney cartoons.
One Twitter user saw a tweet go viral yesterday with his apt and clever response.
Chris Jones is a British TV producer and writer. He said he can remember clearly what stirred his sexual awakenings when younger and it definitely wasn’t drag queens. It was muscled hunks in speedos grappling with themselves in the name of sports entertainment.
“All this nonsense about drag book readings sexualising children made me think about what actually sexualised me as a kid,” he said. He included four photos from wrestling matches.
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All this nonsense about drag book readings sexualising children made me think about what actually sexualised me as a kid: pic.twitter.com/F5djFZZLNU
Jones’ comment struck a nerve with a lot of people. It’s been liked over 25k times and prompted hundreds of others to recall their own sexual awakenings when younger.
I used to tape the wrestling when I was a teen, mainly for this fella – Danny Boy Collins. I think I may have inadvertently groomed myself. pic.twitter.com/7N615vbLYJ
“No drag queen ever killed a little kid … Guns kill little kids,” Navarro told a drag brunch crowd on South Beach.
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indeed, masculine things stirred my loins when I was a kid. Actually my first homoerotic memory is of some teenage cowboy from a TV show!
Then there were the swimmers on TV, the rowers at school, naked football lads changing. Drag was just revolting to me when i discovered it in my late teenage years. The opposite of erotic
If most gays are like me, and i think they are, then the drag thing is hardly going to titillate a gay child.
I dunno about you but I agree with the TERF feminists who say that Drag is both women-hating and misogynist. But i have younger gay friends who enjoy it, so I generally tend to keep quiet about that!
I wish drag and camp wasn’t the thing that represents gay culture to the world
Th black and white tapes from the 50s and 60s are better than porn. The camera zeros in on the couple and it stays there, giving one plenty of time to, how shall we say…………………finish.
Arn Anderson
Ravishing Rick Rude
The 70s, -90s. WCW
Totally agree. Mine was tight butts and Wrangler jeans. I grew up in Texas and the girls in the 80s, were essentially drag queens – big hair and sequins. My hook were butt dimples and biceps.
Burt Ward in that skimpy Robin outfit! I was about 7. My gaze lingered… (And I wondered why I really liked the scenes of him tied up by the Bat-villains. Holy hard-ons!)
Yes, I liked Joe Penny, too. My grandmother loved watching that show, and I watched it with her. That guy that played Barnaby Jones’ nephew also was attractive to me — Mark Shera, I think.
My grandmother loved the Mike Douglas Show which we’d also watch together. It’s where we both learned that Elton John was bisexual and she exclaimed, ”and you have all of his records!”
Before we had TV in the early 1950s we used to play around with each other, get permission to spend the night in sleeping bags in the back yards! That is what we did back then!
After Speed Racer came The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father. Bill Bixby was very easy on the eyes. And the PR on The Flying Nun! And the boyfriend on THAT GIRL! Oh god someone call 911-I need help!!!!!
It was Robin from the Batman show for me. I realized later that Burt Ward couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag, but he sure looked good in them tights.
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Tallskin5
indeed, masculine things stirred my loins when I was a kid. Actually my first homoerotic memory is of some teenage cowboy from a TV show!
Then there were the swimmers on TV, the rowers at school, naked football lads changing. Drag was just revolting to me when i discovered it in my late teenage years. The opposite of erotic
If most gays are like me, and i think they are, then the drag thing is hardly going to titillate a gay child.
I dunno about you but I agree with the TERF feminists who say that Drag is both women-hating and misogynist. But i have younger gay friends who enjoy it, so I generally tend to keep quiet about that!
I wish drag and camp wasn’t the thing that represents gay culture to the world
abfab
Th black and white tapes from the 50s and 60s are better than porn. The camera zeros in on the couple and it stays there, giving one plenty of time to, how shall we say…………………finish.
Arn Anderson
Ravishing Rick Rude
The 70s, -90s. WCW
abfab
Ahmed Johnson. Holy mother of god.
dbmcvey
Professional wrestling is really similar to drag.
abfab
I think you should sell that idea. It would be so much fun to watch Ru Paul beat the shit out of Hedda Lettuce…….
stanpaske
Totally agree. Mine was tight butts and Wrangler jeans. I grew up in Texas and the girls in the 80s, were essentially drag queens – big hair and sequins. My hook were butt dimples and biceps.
abfab
Biceps and butt dimples. Very interesting………….and HOT! TGIF!
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Drew McIntyre and Seamus (both of the WWE) still get my blood flowing.
abfab
Drew, pure beefcake. Seamus, pure ginger.
nyxy
Stone Cold Steve Austin for me even though I was a grown adult by then.
abfab
Beer Sex. Yeah, he was pretty hot.
MISTERJETT
Roman Reigns
abfab
Disco Inferno
JeffBaker
Burt Ward in that skimpy Robin outfit! I was about 7. My gaze lingered… (And I wondered why I really liked the scenes of him tied up by the Bat-villains. Holy hard-ons!)
abfab
Tying proper knots…a very important skill. Holy Erection, Batman!
abfab
Brad Armstrong
abfab
Bruno Sammartino
scotty
yay pittsburgh!
moviemag
Around age 6, I knew I liked it when Robert Conrad was shirtless on The Wild, Wild West, but I had no idea why. I figured it out eventually…
abfab
I taped all of those Wild, Wild West shows shows, did the editing and compiled a best of tape. I was doing GIFS before there were GIFS.
FreddieW
Marc Singer in The Beastmaster.
Gregory Harrison in Trapper John, MD.
Pernell Roberts in Bonanza and Trapper John.
Lyle Waggoner.
abfab
Joe Penny in those sultry made for TV movies, and Jake and The Fatman and that one episode of The Sopranos..and anything else he did.
FreddieW
Yes, I liked Joe Penny, too. My grandmother loved watching that show, and I watched it with her. That guy that played Barnaby Jones’ nephew also was attractive to me — Mark Shera, I think.
abfab
And the greek bodybuilder on Mission Impossible TV series. I think my grandmother had the hots for Efram Zimblist Jr, FBI
abfab
My grandmother (Italian) had the hots for Liberace….
FreddieW
My grandmother was smitten with Raymond Burr. She was very disappointed when she learned he was gay.
abfab
My grandmother loved the Mike Douglas Show which we’d also watch together. It’s where we both learned that Elton John was bisexual and she exclaimed, ”and you have all of his records!”
GayEGO
Before we had TV in the early 1950s we used to play around with each other, get permission to spend the night in sleeping bags in the back yards! That is what we did back then!
abfab
Details, please!
scotty
speed racer and ultraman. suppose thats where i got my zentai fetish from.
and keith dunleavy in 3rd grade.
abfab
After Speed Racer came The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father. Bill Bixby was very easy on the eyes. And the PR on The Flying Nun! And the boyfriend on THAT GIRL! Oh god someone call 911-I need help!!!!!
abfab
One Adam 12—-One Adam 12
scotty
“see the man.” 1 adam 12 responding code 3
IvanPH
Ravishing Rick Rude
Karlis
It was Robin from the Batman show for me. I realized later that Burt Ward couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag, but he sure looked good in them tights.
abfab
Discovering Eartha Kitt on Batman sealed my fate. I wanted a Cat Woman lunchbox after that……