1. Explain the main argument of the article “Balancing Acts: Drag Queens, Gender and Faith”, and how the author supports the main points they are trying to make? What challenges do those who identify with the drag community but also as Christian experience? How do they reconcile their faith with their LGBTQIA+ experience? How does this article “Balancing Acts: Drag Queens, Gender and Faith” challenge the current efforts to repress drag and deny life affirming care to transpersons, like in Tennessee and other states (e.g. NPR article linked above)?
2. If the 23 LGBT Christians interviewed in “Balancing Acts: Drag Queens, Gender and Faith” could write a letter to the legislators responsible for passing the Tennessee Senate Bill 3, known as the Tennessee drag ban, what details/points do you think they should include in order to make their argument against the bill compelling?
3. Considering Ball Culture: How is Ball culture religious, or similar to religion? What do you think it means to “queer the very concept of religion”? Use references from the article linked above to explain your answers.
4. How do both drag performers who identify as Christian and Ball Culture partitioners who identify Ball Culture as a religious culture challenge the religiously conservative rhetoric that wants to repress these types of expression? Provide examples from the readings.
sources!!
https://www.google.com/search?q=ball+culture+videos&oq=ball+culture+videos&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i390i650l2.5947j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:566c37a6,vid:rVtAUl9WCT0
The Church of OVAH: Transcendence in the House Ballroom Scene
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160784530/tennessee-ban-public-drag-shows-transgender-health-care-youth
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