October 24, 2024.
On October 21, 2024 Patch ran an article reporting that Equality Arlington accused me of blaming “the danger [of recent bomb threats at Freddie’s Beach Bar] on those receiving the threats.”
This is patently false, as evident from my own words, which Patch itself reported in the same article as follows: “Likewise gay bars should adopt policies that limit attendance at drag events to an adult audience. Screening attendance at drag events should in turn discourage provocations from opponents of gay rights.”
Nowhere do my comments blame gays for the violence visited upon them. Rather my position is that gays could limit hostilities directed at them by limiting drag performances to adult audiences, just as adult bookstores are encouraged to limit their clientele to adults.