Dear MoveOn member,
Exciting news: MoveOn is organizing a drag lobby day! That’s right—MoveOn is sending drag queens to the halls of Congress to directly confront Republican politicians who are attacking LGBTQ+ rights and equality. (And, yes, we will have security and ensure they are safe.)
In June—Pride Month—MoveOn will organize drag queens from across the country to fly into Washington, D.C., and meet and confront the Republican politicians who are enabling vicious transphobic and homophobic attacks.
The drag queens will specifically confront vulnerable Republicans, including members of the “Complicit Caucus”—the 17 swing-district House Republicans who masquerade as moderates to win in districts that President Biden won in 2020—all while gleefully supporting the MAGA agenda behind closed doors.
But we need your help to make it happen. We need the funds to pay the drag queens what they deserve for their time and investment, for their outfits and makeup, and to book their travel and any hotel stays.
MAGA politicians across the country are waging war against the LGBTQ+ community. These far-right lawmakers are:
- Passing laws outlawing drag performances.1
- Banning books written by and for the LGBTQ+ community.2
- Prohibiting trans people from accessing vital health care.3
- And more.
The ACLU has been tracking more than 500 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the nation, and that number only continues to rise.4
Now, as Pride Month approaches, it’s time to fight back.
And we’re doing it in a way that catches headlines and is authentic to the LGBTQ+ community, because all of us—no matter our gender identity or sexual orientation—deserve to take up space in our nation’s Capitol as constituents and demand equal treatment under the law.
Republican officials are trying to get and hold on to power and want to block us from joining together to demand what we all deserve. But we won’t let them.
Thanks for all you do.
–Nakia, Julia, Alexis, Corinne, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. “‘Subtle and sinister’: Republicans’ anti-drag crusade seen as assault on LGBTQ+ rights,” The Guardian, September 19, 2023
https://act.moveon.org/go/193164?t=4&akid=388880%2E37680734%2E18ajau
2. “Book bans are harming LGBTQ people, advocates say. This online library is fighting back.” CNN, December 16, 2023
https://act.moveon.org/go/193165?t=6&akid=388880%2E37680734%2E18ajau
3. “Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024,” ACLU, May 7, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/187610?t=8&akid=388880%2E37680734%2E18ajau
4. Ibid.
Want to support MoveOn’s work? The MAGA movement’s book bans have forced teachers and librarians across the country to remove books from their shelves and censor what young people can learn. MoveOn is fighting back, including by filling a “Banned Bookmobile” with books that the far right has banned and driving it to key cities and towns to raise the visibility of book bans, hand out banned books for free, and bring people together to stop censorship. To keep up the fight against book bans and the MAGA politicians who support them, we need your help.
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