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Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme on Transgender Rights and Trump’s Win: ‘What a F—— Dark World They’ve Created’


Jinxk Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme discuss their new holiday show, transgender rights and Donald Trump's win as president.

I was raised on this American cowboy idea that, even though America is flawed, our fundamental values are standing up for the little guy and and to try to help, and get our hands dirty. I think I’m going to have a lot more anger when I feel a little less exhausted, but I am seeing so many comments and things on social media about “queer people being so dramatic,” “nothing’s going to happen to you” or “the campaign doesn’t hate you. This is about the economy.” And sure, I also get that there are impoverished people who are worried about whether they can afford things, and that has been at the forefront of their minds, but the fact that somehow that can be so much the focus, that you can truly hear the number that you just talked being spent specifically to promote this ideology, and then you can be like, “But it’s not about that, it’s about this other stuff.

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