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 vested interest in keeping this conflict boiling in these absurdist terms. It is time for some sanity, as it is for some adult thinking on what kids should and should not be required to read in school.
