A good-natured drag show at a Miami gay bar became a lightning rod for hate speech following an online rant by former Georgia Congressional candidate, QAnon supporter and Trump pardonee Angela Stanton-King.
Stanton-King attended a drag show at The Palace on Miami’s South Beach in late April. Stanton-King posted a video to Instagram April 17 expressing her disgust over two children taking part in a drag act at the bar.
“Why in the hell have these people got these little bitty-*ss kids at this f*cking drag show?” she rants in the video. “Look at this f*cking bullsh*t…They’re picking f*cking money up off the floor like they’re f*cking strippers and sh*t.”
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Stanton-King complains to a Palace employee in the same video, saying “I feel offended and disrespected by being a survivor of sexual abuse.”
The video post went viral on Instagram and Twitter, prompting other homophobes to jump in and attack The Palace as well. Thomas Donall, the owner of the Palace, told local news station Channel 10 that employees of The Palace have had to endure homophobic attacks since Stanton-King posted her rant.
“It was all innocent fun for the girls,” Donall said. “I mean they were posing with a Madonna show.” He added that one comment on Instagram stood out ahead of the others. “I hope y’all end up like Pulse,” it read, referring to the notorious attack on the Orlando gay bar Pulse in 2016. The massacre killed 49 people.
“It’s really difficult for us and heart-wrenching,” Donall added. “I mean it just makes me… really sick to my stomach.”
Angela Stanton-King has a history of attacks on the LGBTQ community, including her own transgender daughter, with whom she appeared on the talk show Dr. Phil. She has also compared being queer to pedophilia. We have to wonder why she would even go to a drag show in the first place.
Stanton-King has a long history of spreading disinformation, including QAnon conspiracy theories. She also boasts a criminal record. In 2004, she was convicted of federal conspiracy charges related to a car theft ring.
Donald Trump pardoned her in 2020 after learning of her support for his re-election.
Chrisk
This dumb hateful bitch from the ghetto got herself slapped down by a trans person and her daughter hates her so now it’s time for some revenge.
Also your Qanon friends don’t think you’re any better. I know these people and the hate doesn’t just stop because you hate the same people.
Kangol2
Why do you have to ruin your comments by being resorting to racist garbage? Couldn’t you just have criticized this hateful, homophobic/transphobic person without that racist “from the ghetto” crap? She is from Cheverly, Maryland, which is anything BUT the ghetto, as well as Buffalo and Greensboro, North Carolina, and is the niece of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. She is many things, but she isn’t “from the ghetto.” Is that what you think about all Black people, because if so, it is racist AF. I do not see you racializing White homophobes and transphobes, so maybe think for at least a second about why you have to resort to racist claptrap when criticizing someone like her and not all the White homophobes and transphobes that this site thankfully covers as well.
WashDrySpin
Agreed…everything that Kangol said is true
ChrisK’s addition of “ghetto” reeks of blatant racism…which is rampant in the gay community and needs to be addressed
Dijonaise
Ghetto can be a state of being as you darn well know. Just like the Trump’s are white trash with money.
Chrisk
Dijonaise
Exactly. I also call bitchy gay men in some gay locations ghetto queens and I use white and/or trailer park trash all the time. In her case I didn’t know where she lived but all i heard was f*ck, shit, and bitch. Not to mention she’s a car thief. It’s like it walked right off of central casting for some ghetto queen part.
YallnKY
I saw her on Dr. Phil (yes, I’m sorry I do watch it lol) She is nothing but a big mouth bitch. I feel so sorry for her family. Dr. Phil should have smacked the shit out of her. I would have if I was there. She needs to keep following the Trump cult and stay out of the gay bars!
vikram
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James
Angela King should be in prison.
Sqwoah
Well, she’s getting the attention she wanted
ShiningSex
Ignorant people need to go
leebuffy69
Is she famous ? or just an attention media seeking whore ?
ProudBLK Gay
She’s a dumb. media attention-seeking ho!
Kangol2
Like so many in the GOP, she latches onto hatred of trans people, but the problem isn’t trans people, it’s pathetic, grotesque people like her and so many in the Repuke party, who are full of fear and hate, detest democracy, and are essentially embracing fascism and authoritarianism. They’ll also turn on her behind faster than she can say “MLK Jr.”!
MissTerri
Oh HONEY – do not bring children to a drag show! It is TACKY!! What were they thinking?? That this was a way to “empower” girls and teach them how to sexualize themselves for money?? NEEEEXT!!
ta2t2o
Why? What’s wrong with kids seeing drag queens? Sounds more like your issue.
jms42
Not all drag queens are strippers. In fact, I’d wager most are not. Not all drag acts are sexual in nature. Miss Terri, go back to Russian.
ta2t2o
You don’t have to wonder why she does this type of stuff. Her motives are clear. It’s not even about being against this. It’s about creating attention for her so she can make money off of people being offended. This is all her pushing a brand. See Candace Owens, or Ben Shapiro or Tomi Lahren or Milo Y, or Brandon Straka or anyone of these other clowns who push their hate in the media. Ask yourself why they have to advertise their hate and actively seek out these confrontations and the answer is clear. They’re trying to grift a buck off the hype and outrage. Don’t play into this. They thrive on the attention. Don’t ignore them, but don’t play into their antagonizing either. That’s what they’re hoping for…confrontation.
JerzBoy106
First of all, here is a little history and word origin lesson. The word Ghetto is an Italian word for a section of Venice where Jewish people were compelled to live.
Second, she is disgusting especially considering she has a transgender daughter. Why was she at a drag show if she is such a homophobe??
Again, here we have a REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITE telling someone else what they can do with their children. They loooove telling other people what they can do with their bodies yet REFUSE to wear a mask because its against their rights. Hhmm, the party of small government ladies and gentlemen!!!
Third, she is a Trump supporter spreading QANON theories and should be banned from all social media like her “demigod” because we need to do something to stop these people spreading lies to fit their narrative!!
JerzBoy106
P.S.: the person who typed that Pulse comment needs to be arrested because that is a threat aaannnddd it should be a federal charge because it was done online!!!!!
butchqueen
Her fake Vuitton scarf is a crime!