Straight male rockers donning frocks to protest anti-drag bills

[pnwmom]

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Country-punk band sextet Vandoliers were on tour in late February when they read about a controversial new Tennessee bill criminalizing public drag shows as “adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors.” The Dallas band’s multi-instrumentalist, Cory Graves, tells Yahoo Entertainment that he knew exactly what he and his bandmates needed to do before their gig that week at biker bar the Shed Smokehouse & Juke Joint in Maryville, Tenn.

They sprang into action. They went dress-shopping.

“We had just seen that the law was maybe going to be signed around the time that we were going to be in Tennessee,” Graves recalls. “I was looking at our calendar and I was like, ‘Oh, shit, we're going to be in Tennessee in two days. I'm going to get a dress and do this, because I believe in it.’ It's like a middle finger, and just a show of support to a class of people that's getting shit on for no reason. … And so, we all went to some vintage stores and had the shop ladies help us find dresses. They were trying to show us what would look good on our broad-shouldered bodies or whatever.”

“Cory is very smart and had a really great way of harmlessly telling somebody to f*** themselves,” frontman Joshua Fleming chuckles. “And I thought that this was just such a really respectful way for a bunch of smelly straight dudes to [protest] without being violent, being a problem, or offending a bunch of people — just an act of kindness to a small community of people in rural Tennessee, maybe change a couple of country-bumpkin minds and move on. And it turned into our voice being out there.”

[BigmanPigman]

1. The New York Dolls did it in the 70s and they rocked in platforms....

[OrangeJoe]

2. The Mothers of Invention did it in the 60s.