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A Drag Queen Gets a Wet Kiss From the Washington Post

Anyone who reads The Washington Post regularly knows that, in its view, the LGBTQ community can do no wrong, that there’s no wretched excess that the fringe elements of that special-interest group can engage in that the Post won’t defend—no matter how flamboyant, distasteful, or outrageous.

To the contrary, the Post is more likely than not to showcase, glamorize, and even glorify it. But it surely outdid itself Sunday by devoting four full pages in the print edition of its “Arts & Style” section to a gushing—even sycophantic—biographical profile of a drag queen who goes by the stage name of “Sasha Velour.” The article was arguably even more hagiographic than “RBG,” the 2018 biopic of the late left-wing icon, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

Writer Maura Judkis’ profile, “Sasha Velour Sashays Into the Culture Wars,” is so…

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