Pentagon Cancels Drag Show At Nevada Air Force Base

NBC News reports:

Pentagon leaders have stepped in to stop a drag show scheduled for Thursday at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, according to two defense officials and a U.S. official. The show, which was in celebration of Pride Month, was approved by Air Force leaders, but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the Air Force it is not Defense Department policy to fund drag shows on bases and the show should be canceled or moved off base.

At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 29, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., angrily questioned Austin and Milley about drag queen story hours on bases around the world, including in Montana, Nevada, Virginia and Germany. When Milley was informed about the event this week, he was visibly angry about the decision to host the event on base, according to a U.S. official and a defense official.

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The hearings matter. https://t.co/4zabhU2eDE

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) May 31, 2023

The military has been doing drag shows since at least WWII pic.twitter.com/kYMTcvhl51

— Edward Brown (@exbrown358) May 3, 2023

I mean it’s always been more than just an LGBTQ thing. Famously drag has been super popular in the military, there’s even photos of soldiers manning an artillery piece in WWII wearing full drag because the Nazis attacked during rehearsal. pic.twitter.com/7RGqjfn7FY

— Ted Fielding (@ted_fielding) April 15, 2023

Drag shows in the military have been going on for decades. Here’s an example from WWII. pic.twitter.com/5efojgPwPC

— Joseph Thiebes ? (@thiebes) April 2, 2023