Thu Mar 23, 2023 – 11:22 am EDTThu Mar 23, 2023 – 11:26 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A Texas university president has cancelled a drag performance at his university, likening it to “blackface.”
On March 20, the Christian president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, Walter V. Wendler, sent an email to students, faculty, and staff at his university, announcing that he was cancelling a drag performance that had been scheduled for the end of this month because of its inherently “demeaning” and “misogynistic” nature.
“As a performance exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women into cartoonish-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate womanhood,” he wrote in the email, after stating firmly that “West Texas A&M University will not host a drag show on campus.”
“As a university president, I would not support ‘blackface’ performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor,” he continued. “It is wrong.”
The drag show, originally intended to be held at the university on March 31, was meant to raise money for the Trevor Project, an LGBT pressure group that advocates for
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