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You wouldn’t have thrown the first brick at Stonewall. “But Tatianna should have behaved herself.” They may have to take time off work, or get fired, to show up to court, because a bouncer brought in the police instead of pulling them from the club. They will have to describe the event in every background check forever. They will be exposed to job discrimination permanently. They will spend the rest of their lives with an arrest record. The idea that a queer bar might do this to one of us for drunken misbehavior is terrifying. This, and the prospect of this, is terrifying. They are exposed to a unique risk of harassment and sexual assault.
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A drag queen is going to be booked into a sex segregated cell with men in a full drag look.
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Throwing a visibly queer person into a jail cell is innately dangerous for that visibly queer person. “In a time of mass gun violence, we hired police to protect the event, but they clearly misinterpreted their role, massively overstepped, and terribly embarrassed us.” This would be acceptable.īut they’re not giving that response and no one has publicly confronted them with the question. “This was a moment of terrible judgment which we made because the hour was late and people were tired, and we’ll examine our policies to make sure this does not happen again,” then I will be the first to say: Good.
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Now, there are a series of answers to this question which I will state now that I am perfectly willing to accept.
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Because: I expect that through this waking nightmare, our queer venues will be the brief moment in which we’re awake, the night of the week and the weekend of the year in which we treat each other with empathy and respect our history, and that we do this through community. How does one get upset about anything?Įxcept somehow, I’m angry. Concentration camps are yesterday’s news thanks to today’s news of ethnic cleansing. Because, in our lost times of He Who Shall Not Be Named (Trump), and racist comments that cratered a queer bar not that long ago ( Burkhart’s), our threshold for what is offensive and outrageous disappeared. I’ll ask it again:Īm I instead asking what did Tatianna do to get arrested? Am I asking about the narrative of what led to this? The details? Perhaps you want to quibble about the minor details, like how they didn’t technically phone the police, but rather, a bouncer called over a police officer to handle it. Perhaps you think I’m asking how this happened. WHY THE FUCK DID A QUEER BAR CALL THE POLICE ON A DRAG QUEEN DURING PRIDE? So I have to ask a question, a question I can’t get out of my head:
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TEN Atlanta is another failed attempt at bringing back mid-century architectural brutalism, and Tatianna was probably booked into a more aesthetically pleasing venue, with better music and fewer cokeheads.Ĭertainly, it could be ignored as just another TMZ headline. You might be wondering, why would I care about TEN Atlanta? It’s a bar I pass on the way to another bar. So far, in queer media, this seems to merely be a tabloid headline. During Pride weekend, the bouncer at TEN Atlanta, apparently incapable of managing RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Tatianna, referred the belligerent Tatianna to their cop-for-hire, who arrested her.