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‘Christian Drag Clowns’ Compare Jesus’ Death and Persecution to Coming Out

‘Spiritual DragCon 2022 has come and gone, and man was it ever strange. In what is likely a world’s first, a group of progressive Christians (In reality, a collective of pagans and self-deceived God-haters) threw a “first-of-its-kind gathering at the intersection of drag and spirituality” where attendees could “join drag performers and faith leaders from around the globe in Chicago this October for a stunning and sacred three-day festival.”

One of the panel featured ‘drag clowns’ where the speakers had these incredible bios.

Christopher Belmont (it/he/she) is a clown-inspired kingthing from chicago, IL. it believes and lives a life of freedom from gender expectations and norms, to live however you choose to live as your truest and wholest self. this ethos in drag has brought him joy, safety, and a newfound love for himself and the world around her.

King Julez (they/them) is a Masters of Divinity student, board chair for Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble, and future ordinand within The United Church of Canada. Their long-term goal is to be a drag clown minister, and help to bridge the gap between faith communities and the 2S-LGBTQIA+ community through education and the healing of trauma.

Fyrestorm is a ‘a new Drag King on the scene from Columbus, Ohio. …My tason performing range from in-depth character cosplays, to rock undead demon; to boy and realness’

King Julez, one of the panelists who we have featured before, explains why the Easter story is analogous to queer folk suffering and then being resurrected to new identities.

In my church world, I’m a part of the United Church of Canada, and doing my drag there has brought me a lot of hope because, you know, I did a drag show this year for Easter, and we called it ‘Jesus Coming Out’, you know it’s about this whole story of Easter in a Christian context is, you know, Jesus kind of comes into and says, Yes, it’s me, I’m the Messiah. Faces persecution with his friends, Judas (unintelligible) One of- Judas turns him in, he gets killed, and the story is living into this purpose of, of resurrection.

And we draw parallels you know, queer folks, we come out, we embrace who we are, often we face persecution, but once we face that, we realize we’re living our truth, and we live what we’re meant to be. And I’ve seen two or three other churches now holding drag shows as well, two or three United Churches. And are asking me for advice or connections to performers or things like that and it’s really beautiful and it gives me a lot of hope for my church.

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A Convention for ‘Christian DragQueens’? LGBTQ Christians Announce ‘Spiritual DragCon 2022’

In what is likely a world’s first, a group of progressive Christians (In reality, a collective of pagans and self-deceived God-haters) have announced they are putting on ‘Spiritual DragCon 2022‘ in the fall.

According to the promotional material for the event, it’s being touted as “first-of-its-kind gathering at the intersection of drag and spirituality” where you can “join drag performers and faith leaders from around the globe in Chicago this October for a stunning and sacred three-day festival.”

It’s here when you can “feed the spirit and celebrate the body with powerful panel discussions, inspiring practitioner presentations, and—of course—fierce and fabulous performances.”

The event is being put on by Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain whose wild bio you can see below, and our favorite drag clown, whose sermon we recently featured.

So far 18 other drag artists, LGBTQIA+ clergy, and other allies have been announced but not named, and information on tickets, schedules, and other details are said to be ‘coming soon.’

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‘Drag Clown’ Preaches Sermon and Says THIS about Muslims and Transfolk

Eli Munro’s ‘trans name’ is Julian Munro and her performing name is King Julez. Despite considering herself a non-binary They/them, we’ll be using female pronouns.  Munro is an MDIV student and a non-ordained ‘christian’ minister who is a soon-to-be ministry candidate within the United Church of Canada. Her goal is to be ordained under as her ‘drag clown’ persona, specifically, so she will be able to wear her clown drag to every service. She’s also the chair of @affirmunite, which is a far, far, faaaaaar left LGBTQ activist group within the United Church.

And she’s been busy, making the rounds at UCC events. Just last week she led a breakout session for 150 religious leaders within her denomination on the importance of using personal pronouns, and she’s posted prayer templates for transfolk, such as “prayers for your first estrogen pill and “prayers for your first testosterone shot”

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Now, during a recent service, speaking at East End United Regional Ministry conference, Julez the Trans Clown, using these scripture readings, explains that the “one body” Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 12 is not referring to a body of Christian believers, but on all religions and sexual orientations.

  • You have heard it said you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your God in heaven. For God makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. Matthew 5:43-45
  • Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.  Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 1 Corinthians 12:12-15

Poorly exegeting what it means to all be part of one body, how the hand needs the foot needs the leg, her ‘sermon’ culminates with this summation:

…This now speaks to the Matthew reading. If we are all parts of the body that is creation, this includes the parts that we don’t like, the parts that have needed some extra help, the parts that have needed some offsetting. The parts that are our enemies. The parts that persecute us.

Jesus describes in this reading a life in which all are children of God, and this is exactly the same body that Paul is describing in his letter (in 1 Cor 12) . God shines the sun on all parts of the body, good and evil, Christian or Jewish, Muslim or pagan or atheist, cisgender or trans, Conservative, Green, Liberal NDP or Bloc (Canada’s political parties). We are all part of one body.