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    Editorial: The drag queen debate is ignorant of history and a proxy fight with kids as pawns

    by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune Feb 01, 2023 3 minutes
    Ginger Forest reads“ Going Places” during story time with drag queens during brunch at Jerry's Sandwiches on Sept. 18, 2022, in Lincoln Square.

    Improbably, drag queens have become the latest glittery flashpoint in our ongoing culture wars with a new wave of legislative proposals designed to limit the freedom of these performers to do what they long have done.

    If certain popular social media channels and news sites are to be believed, America is divided between those who celebrate flamboyant performers putting on sexualized shows for elementary school students and those who see in those wigs and sequins the harbinger of the last days of the republic.

    There are those on both the right and left who have a

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