Drag superstar Monét X Change vows to fight hate until the very end

For so long as people have existed there’s been transgender individuals, and for so long as we have had clothes there’s been drag queens.

No matter what hate is pedalled towards both group, “we’ll band together and become stronger, we’ll never stop, and the bigots won’t win”.

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That’s the underlying message from worldwide drag famous person and former winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Monét X Change, in the case of queer visibility.

Speaking completely to 9Entertainment, X Change mentioned that the seemingly infinite assaults weaponising transgender individuals, drag queens, and the queer group at giant are drained and are available from a spot of concern.

“When it comes to things like these really narrow minded views of sexuality and gender, people are just so afraid to confront what they have come to regard as the truth or the status quo,” X Change mentioned.

“But I know that with every bit of (harmful) legislation that comes around, every attack on the community, we band together and we find ways to support and love the segment of our community that’s been attacked.

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“And I do know that that is by no means going to cease.

“Even if I’m fighting until I’m 80-years-old, I’m down to do so… because the alternative is just to run away and cower and that’s no way to live.”

Just this week in Victoria, two separate drag “storytime” occasions – the place queens learn youngsters’s books aloud at public libraries – have been cancelled after going through backlash. 

The whole variety of cancellations of such occasions throughout the state now sits at 10, with comparable traits showing in New South Wales and different jurisdictions.

X Change, who goes by Kevin outdoors of drag, says it is laborious to disregard the views of these actively in search of to divide, however it’s one thing each queer individual is acquainted with and continues to face in day-to-day life.

“Trans people have been around for as long as civilisation has been around for, as long as human beings have been on this planet, there has been trans people,” they mentioned.

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“I think there is definitely a shift toward hatred, and especially in the US and in the conservative states, like Texas, like Tennessee, Florida, but I think that small minority, they just have a very big voice.

“I if I had a magic wand, I might simply cease all this shit.

“Just make people recognise that queer people deserve the same rights – and literally, we just want the same civil rights and equality that everyone has – but that’s just not reality.

“But I’m a fighter, I’ve at all times been a fighter, from center college to highschool, you already know, I’ve at all times been a fighter.

“So I am always down to stick up for what’s right, because the alternative is just a sad place that I don’t want to be a part of.”

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A 3-time competitor on the Drag Race franchise, which to date now has two Aussie iterations, X Change mentioned they are not positive what the longer term holds for queer individuals, however they’re sure “the bigots won’t win”.

“If the past four or five years has taught us anything, we just don’t know what the f–k is around the corner,” they mentioned.

“We just want everyone to have the same rights and the same aspirations of love and liberty and freedom.

“Regardless of whether or not you are Christian, or Buddhist, or Black, or Asian, or homosexual or straight or bi.

“I don’t know how long it’s gonna take us to get there.

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“But I believe that staying diligent and staying on track and never letting bigots win is what’s subsequent.”

Every season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, including Drag Race Down Under, is available to stream now on Stan.

X Change, alongside a host of more than 100 local and international drag queens, will appear at Drag Expo Sydney this weekend.

All seasons of the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise are available to stream now on Stan.

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