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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

BenDeLaCreme on Anti-LGBTQ Bills & the Drag Defense Fund

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

"I am acting this gay no matter what happens around me." BenDeLaCreme, star of "RuPaul’s Drag Race," discusses how limiting access to drag and LGBTQ+ spaces won't limit queerness in children, how drag performers have historically uplifted and fought for the queer community, and the ACLU's Drag Defense Fund. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:04.0

Welcome.

0:07.0

Welcome.

0:09.0

No idea.

0:10.0

This is so lovely.

0:12.0

I didn't know the audience was going to go so crazy.

0:17.0

I didn't know what would happen after Lindsey Graham.

0:23.0

Before we get in,

0:29.0

these anti-drag bills that are popping up around the country,

0:34.0

I think there are a lot of people objecting to drag without having any idea what it is.

0:45.0

I know I've never gone to a drag show and can you explain Dread?

0:51.0

Absolutely.

0:52.0

Yeah, well, somebody just was shocked that you've never been to a drag show.

0:59.0

I'm embarrassed.

1:02.0

No, no, no.

1:03.0

It's not shocking that you've never been to a show that you would think of as a drag show,

1:07.0

but you've probably seen Mrs. Doubtfire or Tootsie or any of those, you know, things that we have...

1:12.0

I didn't realize they were in drag.

1:15.0

Well, that's some very convincing cost to me.

1:21.0

So, drag is something that's been part of the culture for a very long time in a lot of different ways.

1:26.0

There's many types of it that we've sort of been accepting in contemporary culture like those examples.

1:32.0

It's something that Harkins back to...

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