D’Arcy Drollinger will receive $55,000 stipend in 18-month role to ensure city’s drag history is ‘shared, honored and preserved’
Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag performances are cropping up in statehouses. Violence and vitriol are turning children’s drag story hour events into headline-news protests.
“My goals are to make San Francisco sparkle. I think drag performers bring a lot of sparkle and humor and glamor and silliness to the world. I think that is part of why drag is so successful,” Drollinger said, adding that she expects to be in drag for the entirety of her role. “I’m going to be in drag pretty much 24/7 for the next 18 months.”“There’s a lot of power for the drag community in San Francisco,” she said. “I feel very honored to be able to take that one more step.
The city’s mayor called Drollinger a “bright star in San Francisco″ for her advocacy and elevation of the city’s drag community. Members of the Proud Boys sparked a hate crimes investigation when they protested and shouted slurs outside a Bay Area library hosting Drag Story Hour, where drag queens read to kids, last June. In Oregon last year, demonstrators – some of them armed – threw rocks and smoke grenades at each other outside a drag event.
Jonathan Hamilt, executive director of Drag Story Hour, a global non-profit event network that began in San Francisco in 2015, said he hopes other cities across the country will enact their own drag laureate programs.
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