Image Credits: Jim Nix / CC & Nashville Pride/Facebook & Instagram
The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A Nashville Middle School teacher who openly advertises his side hustle as a Drag Queen is set to host the main stage during the three-day Nashville Pride Festival at the end of June.
Benjamin Slinkard, who has been employed for Metro Nashville Public Schools for the past thirteen years, moonlights not so secretly as his alter ego Kennedy Ann Scott, and is the Drag Queen in residence at Nashville’s well known gay bar, the Lipstick Lounge where he regularly hosts events.
Slinkard is a fan of kids experiencing grown men masquerading as women, as seen in a 2021 Facebook post where he poses in full Drag with a 7-year-old boy – introduced as his “little drag sister” – who is wearing lipstick and a long wig.
“Today was an AMAZING day! I can’t describe completely in words how this was a highlight of my week and year!!! I met a new friend today! He is really in love with drag, makeup, fashion, loves Rupaul, other queens. He is 7, and just wants to be accepted as we all do!” wrote Slinkard. “Some school kids and teachers at his school have been bullying him and giving him hard time. We will NOT be having this! As an educator myself and drag entertainer, we stand up to bullies whether they are children or adults. Everyone is entitled to be their true authentic self! If you don’t agree with someone’s life then keep it to yourself. We don’t have time to hear your hateful words!”
An educator for the past fifteen years, Slinkard worked at May Werthan Shayne Elementary School for twelve years, and currently teaches at Meigs Middle School, a Nashville Magnet School, as a Gifted and Talented teacher.
While most of the photos on Slinkard’s social media pages are fairly tame, there is this gem that any of his current middle school students could easily find with a smart phone.
The Pride festival, to be held at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, will feature a “Drag Extravaganza” with over 50 performances which will be open to minors along with other “family-friendly” activities.
General Admission tickets for the festival grants access to hundreds of festival vendors, including bars, and entertainment on three separate stages with one stage reserved exclusively for Drag which can be openly viewed by all children in attendance.
The Youth Zone at the festival is being organized by Just Us, an arm of the Oasis Center, described on their website as a “youth empowerment program” for high school students who identify “somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum” that meets weekly at a location on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville. The Oasis Center also runs a weekly program for children as young as 11.
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In Oklahoma they’ve just sent to the governor a bill that would ban drag performances in public.
Senator David Bullard (R-Durant) said, “Nothing in the bills addresses drag or the dress. It addresses the behavior.”
EXCUSE ME? Any teenage girl can take a portable sound system into a public park and dance around while lip-syncing to Lady Gaga, and there’s nothing wrong with it. But if a drag queen does it, it’s ILLEGAL?
You can’t criminalize performers for how they’re dressed. This bill is transparently unconstitutional. This law should be ignored.
That guy shouldn’t be allowed anywhere around kids. And look at all the Democrat Parents sitting around watching with big smiles on their faces as he teaches children who don’t know any better to defy nature. Disgusting.
Do “Drag Queens” represent Gay men? Why? They are men pretending to be women. Obviously they should not be allowed in schools.
In one photo above, a naked man is being led around on a chain.