For over a month now, we’ve been handled to a torrent of proof that newly elected congressman George Santos is a serial liar. From supposedly being a star volleyball participant at a school he by no means attended to having grandparents who fled Hitler, virtually every single day has introduced a brand new lie. And now, we will add flagrant hypocrisy to the combo.
On Wednesday, journalist Marisa Kabas reported that as a teen residing in Brazil, Santos “loved” drag, participated in a minimum of one drag present, and glided by the title “Kitara Ravache.”
In contrast to Santos’s very massive file of lies, there’s completely nothing unsuitable with dressing in drag or expressing oneself nonetheless one sees match. The issue, after all, is that Santos apparently doesn’t assume different folks ought to be afforded such rights. As The New York Occasions notes, Santos has “embraced right-wing insurance policies that many LGBTQ activists have decried as discriminatory.” For instance, Florida’s bigoted “Don’t Say Homosexual” legislation, which the then candidate “voiced help for” in an April 2022 Fb video, saying, “Hey, everybody. George Santos right here…. As a homosexual man, I stand proudly behind not instructing our youngsters intercourse or sexual orientation.” (The legislation prohibits lecturers in grades Ok–3 from discussing gender id and sexual orientation in any manner by any means, and has led to educators being warned to to not put on clothes with rainbows on them and to do away with “protected house” stickers and pictures of their same-sex spouses out of concern of being prosecuted.) Within the accompanying caption, Santos claimed Democrats need to “groom our youngsters.”
In his first weeks in Congress, Santos has additionally aligned himself with the far proper, whose members have demonized drag reveals and launched appalling anti-trans laws.
Previous to being elected, Santos labored as a spokesman for Carl Paladino, an elected official who, per the Occasions, has “a monitor file of racist and homophobic feedback.”
