Why Is the U.S. Government Funding Drag Performances in Ecuador?
By Chris Queen
What is it with the left and drag these days? It seems like everywhere you go, there’s some story about drag queens. That includes Ecuador, where the U.S. government sent your tax money to fund a drag exhibit.
That’s right. The U.S. State Department, funded by your tax dollars (y’know, the dollars that the Biden Administration is hiring 80,000-plus IRS agents to help collect), sent a $20,600 grant to a “cultural center in Ecuador to host ‘drag theater performances’ in the name of diversity and inclusion,” as Fox News reports.
Granted, $20,600 is a drop in the bucket compared to the money our government spends on loads of things, but it’s the general principle that your hard-earned money is going, at least in some small part, to foster “diversity and inclusion” in a foreign country — using drag queens, of all things.
What does that $20,600 do? According to USAspending.gov, the grant stipulates that the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano “will host 3 workshops, 12 drag theater performances, and produce a 2 minute documentary” all for the bargain-basement price of $20,600.
Furthermore, the grant program that is sending the funds to the center seeks to “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics and by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people and government of the United States and citizens of the rest of the world.”