

Now, it seems, drag queens await on every stage. Keep your eyes open for Pentagrams, we were told. Fears over cross-dressing “groomers” coming for all our children seem to be nearing the fever pitch of the “Satanic panic” in the 1980s when lurid claims spread from shore to shore of a global cult that sexually abused, sacrificed and even ate their victims. Dan Patrick has rammed through the Texas Senate haven’t made it to the governor’s desk, it seems they’re already having a chilling effect. Though the anti-trans and anti-drag bills that Lt.

"Drag is a different art form,” Shannon Emerick, the theater’s marketing director, told ABC13. So, yes, they relied on the age-old tradition of cross-gender acting. They cited concerns about its “age-appropriateness” after SBISD parents expressed alarm over a “drag queen’s role in the show.” The theater, which has for 43 years specialized in productions for children, had fewer than eight actors portraying 20 characters. Augustus Gloop in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is no longer “fat.” Here in Houston, where right-wing cultural warriors are banning books at the slightest hint of any gender bending, Spring Branch ISD announced that it had canceled school field trips to see an adaptation of Dahl’s “James and the Giant Peach” performed by Main Street Theater. Across the pond, British “sensitivity” editors have bowdlerized his books by cutting potentially offensive phrases. His stories are catching it from the left and right. Thumbs Down: How’s a kid supposed to enjoy Roald Dahl these days? Give his ghost a break. (Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images/TNS) Ronald Dumont/TNS Comments British novelist Roald Dahl on Dec.
