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    California Legislature's honor for drag activist angers state Republicans

    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times Jun 06, 2023 4 minutes
    Scott Wiener and Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins.

    Known as much for her dramatic face makeup and colored boa headdresses as for her work caring for AIDS patients, promoting safe-sex education and cleaning up trash throughout San Francisco, drag activist Sister Roma was honored Monday during an annual LGBTQ+ Pride Month ceremony in the state Capitol.

    But what's normally a routine event in the statehouse dominated by Democrats, where more LGBTQ+ lawmakers now serve than at any time, has become a flashpoint in the culture wars as Republicans push back against acceptance of transgender identities and honors for a group of service-oriented drag queens who they see as mocking the Catholic religion.

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