Tensions high amid competing armed protests outside drag show at downtown Aztec Theatre

Brianna Berlanga and her girlfriend, Sade Winston, dance and chant while at a counter protest to the group ‘This Is Texas Freedom Force’, a group described as an “extremist militia” by the FBI who were protesting a drag show at the Aztec Theater Tuesday evening.Far-right groups, including This Is Texas Freedom Force, have been targeting Texas drag shows in recent years, claiming that drag performers are “grooming” children.

San Antonio’s LBGTQ community organized a counter protest to the group ‘This Is Texas Freedom Force’, that planned an armed, protest of “A Drag Queen Christmas,” at the Aztec Theater.When asked how drag queens allegedly groomed children, Burkhart said having “men dressed in women’s lingerie, being scantily-clad on stage in front of children” was one way.

“This is just a reminder that we have so far to go still,” said The Queen Fantasia, a well-known local drag performer. “We hope they can understand that drag and the LGBTQ community is about love and acceptance and expressing yourself. Members of the group This Is Texas Freedom Force, a group described as an “extremist militia” by the FBI protest the drag show, “A Drag Queen Christmas,” at the Aztec Theater Tuesday night. They were met with counter protestors supporting the drag queens and other members of the LGTBQ community.Across the street, the far-right protestors yelled “pedophiles go home” and “pedophile groomers” as they waved signs accusing drag queens of sexually abusing children.

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