The Tanana State Fair is a beloved annual event in the Fairbanks, Alaska, area, seeking to make the most of the Interior's brief summer season in a celebration of Alaska by Alaskans that is for the whole family. That's right - the whole family, including kids. That's why the organizers of the Tanana State Fair have decided that drag queens will no longer be an official part of the event.
The Tanana Valley State Fair announced in February that it will not host its annual drag performance this year.
Last week, after months of pushback from the drag promoters, it published a statement reiterating its decision.
In a terse statement released Friday, the Fair’s Board of Directors said, “A Glam Show is not scheduled during the 2025 Tanana Valley State Fair.” The board acknowledged that the decision followed months of listening to community members in Fairbanks and surrounding areas, noting the controversy has taken a heavy toll on staff and the broader community.
Those community members, we feel certain, are families with kids who don't want to explain to their young ones why that obvious big dude is parading around dressed as an obscene caricature of a woman. This, of course, is not a sentiment limited to Alaskans; Americans across the nation are getting sick of this insistence that these people parade around in front of other people's kids. Note, though, the mention of "months of pushback." Here's the onion:
Harassment has been intense from the pro-drag crowd.
There were many in the community who objected to the ludicrous depiction of females and the burlesque nature of drag at what has traditionally been a family-oriented fair.
Those who criticized the drag performances of the past were routinely harassed and harangued with hateful commentary by the loud-and-proud trans-and-queer segment of the community.
Hateful commentary. By the "loud and proud trans and queer" segment of the community. I thought the left were supposed to be the accepting, tolerant ones?
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Look, as I've been saying and writing for years, nobody cares what these people do in the privacy of their own homes, or private clubs, or even in a venue where it's adults-only. But this kind of thing isn't appropriate for kids, and it should be parents, not "loud and proud" drag queen agitators deciding on parents' behalf when and if their kids should be exposed to this kind of thing. The fair is, yes, a voluntary event; unlike the schools, nobody is compelled to attend.
But it's a community event. For all the community. Nobody objects to events like carnival rides, bouncy houses, local art exhibits, best-vegetable contests, or any of the other usual things that state fairs include. Having grown men parading around in a costume that's a grotesque lampoon of a woman, though, that's not an event for the community. And it says a lot about the agitators that they are willing to indulge in harassment and threats to force their agenda.
That alone is reason enough to cancel them.
The Tanana Valley State Fair, which draws thousands of Alaskans each summer, will proceed with its other scheduled events. Board members say they hope to refocus the fair’s atmosphere on traditional community fun without the recent “harassment” that has surrounded this issue.
This is a reasonable attitude towards this whole affair. It's too bad that the "loud and proud" nitwits can't show that kind of good sense.
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