A small city in Maine held its first ever Satisfaction occasion the place a lewdly-named drag queen carried out in entrance of kids.
Letta Dicken, the self-proclaimed primary plus dimension drag queen within the state, lip-synced to songs and skim books at Windham-Raymond’s Satisfaction celebration on Sunday.
The scheduled drag performances had been cancelled earlier than the occasion after organizers acquired pushback from the group and threats had been made to the entertainers.
Nonetheless, Letta was undeterred and gave a efficiency contained in the health club to an viewers crammed with youngsters and their mother and father.
Windham-Raymond held its first ever Satisfaction occasion on Sunday the place the crudely named drag queen Letta Dicken carried out in entrance of kids
Sporting a blonde wig and sparkly rainbow jumpsuit, she lip-synced to a few songs together with one referred to as ‘Drag Queens Save the World’
Sporting a blonde wig and sparkly rainbow jumpsuit, she lip-synced to a few songs together with one referred to as ‘Drag Queens Save the World,’ reported the Portland Press Herald.
One of many songs had the lyrics ‘the hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, all by means of the city.’
Letta additionally joined the Windham Public Library kids’s room coordinator Alexis Handelman in a narrative time.
‘I discovered it actually necessary to indicate up and be seen and assist carry up not solely the Windham and Raymond queer group, but additionally this group, which has gone by means of a whole lot of challenges to get to the place they’re right now,’ Letta instructed the Press Herald.
‘I wished to assist get out the message that love is louder than hate.’
Bradley Youngs introduced his seven-year-old son Marshall to the occasion. ‘We’re right here to help this occasion and extra occasions like this on the town, there aren’t many in Windham,’ he stated.
Robert King and Nicholas Tucker stated they attended the occasion as a result of they cannot make the Portland Satisfaction this 12 months, and had been additional inspire to come back present their help because of the threats.
‘We’re right here to help the LGBTQ group however particularly to be right here for this primary one in Windham,’ stated King.
Letta Dicken is the self-proclaimed primary plus dimension drag queen within the state of Maine
Previous to the occasion, drag performer Chartreuse Cash stated a person approached her at a Portland bar and instructed her to not go.
‘He got here as much as me and requested, “Are you Chartreuse Cash?” I stated sure. He stated, “Are you concerned in Windham Satisfaction?” I stated sure, on June 2. He stated, “As a good friend, I am telling you – don’t go,”‘ Cash instructed WMTW.
‘I requested him, if I had been to attend, would my life be at risk? And he stated sure.’
Windham’s police chief decided the risk to be ‘unsubstantiated,’ however occasion organizers employed three cops for added safety.
