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Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan
pushing for NYC ‘drag laureate’

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Posted By: Ribicon, 5/21/2022 5:43:45 PM

A Harlem councilwoman is pushing legislation that would require city leaders overseeing museums and nightlife to appoint a laureate of the Big Apple’s growing drag performance scene. Democratic socialist Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan introduced a bill Thursday that would require a “drag laureate” to be picked annually by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in consultation with the head of the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife. During Thursday’s City Council meeting, Richardson Jordan said the drag laureate would serve as the city’s “ambassador to LGBTQ nightlife.” “As a black queer woman, I know what it is to feel invisible,” said Richardson Jordan, who has come under fire during her first year

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Such a person could help visitors find the hottest places to catch a case of the monkeypox, and maybe even double as advisor to the city's kindergartens. And why not a thug laureate, a pimp laureate, a homeless laureate?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Birddog 5/21/2022 6:20:45 PM (No. 1162224)
Why Laureate? Why not Drag Czar? ...or Queen?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Iconoclast 5/21/2022 8:26:32 PM (No. 1162281)
Office of Nightlife?? W tha heck?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: halfnorsk 5/21/2022 8:27:08 PM (No. 1162282)
You've been "invisible"? We wish you'd stay invisible.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: downnout 5/21/2022 8:35:36 PM (No. 1162287)
Sodom on the Hudson.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: rochow 5/21/2022 9:22:02 PM (No. 1162304)
Anything, any job so that we can rip off some people and give Colores some competition. Just look how much BLM raked in, we got to do the same!!! Right!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: hershey 5/21/2022 9:30:42 PM (No. 1162310)
The Mayor has an 'Office of Nightlife'??? Give me a break...I have a hard time deciding which is more screwed up, New York, Chicago or Kalifornia...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Faithfully 5/21/2022 9:51:19 PM (No. 1162323)
You were not invisible. For the most part you were left alone. You crossed the line.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 5/22/2022 1:08:12 AM (No. 1162411)
Oh, wow! AA fuel slingshots are the most fun to watch. ProStock are good, and Funny Cars are second only to the AA fuelers. THAT kind of drags are fun. The other kind are just sickos who should be ignored.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/22/2022 8:40:50 AM (No. 1162598)
NYC, the city that never sleeps. From that perspective it explains why NYC has an Office of Nightlife. Found their website. They claim nightlife generates 300k jobs and 35 billion in economic impact and goes back over decades. The LGBTQ culture is a big part of it. So is the drug culture. They have programs for administering NARCAN in nightlife establishments. They also have mental health programs. There are other programs to help create more nightlife establishments. NYC nightlife is growing. As for a 'Drag Laureate', why does city council need to get involved in that. The nightlife culture could come up with that all on their own without any help from the city. If the nightlife culture is as big as they say it is, it would be wise for city government to be involved in it. It's not going away.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mifla 5/22/2022 8:57:23 AM (No. 1162618)
Our politicians have too much time and too much of our money.
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