A flyer was recently posted on Facebook advertising the Nashua Pride Festival, which is featured as an official event on the City of Nashua website. The flyer lists the drag performer “Ania Bangkoks” as a performer in the “family family” drag show that is held downtown as part of the Pride Festival.
I pointed out in a comment that “Bangkoks” is a sexually explicit name and totally inappropriate for children. Drag performers have sexually explicit shows for adults so it is no shocker that they would have sexually explicit stage names.
What is surprising is that my complaint about the sexually explicit name fell on deaf ears. I was accused of complaining about nothing. There has been no acknowledgment that this flyer is inappropriate and deeply embarrassing for the City of Nashua.
I shouldn’t have been surprised by this inappropriate flyer because the “family-friendly” drag show has a history of sexually-themed performances. Below are pictures from the show at the 2018 Nashua Pride Festival.
These male performers depict women as sexual objects, and their performances mock and degrade women. And this performance was held in front of the many children that attend the festival.
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Meanwhile, the City of Nashua is claiming that this isn’t an official city event even though Nashua Pride has its own page on the official city website, the headquarters for Nashua Pride is listed on that page as Nashua City Hall and the official Pride phone number is for the Mayor Jim Donchess’s Office.
All of this is so ridiculous and amateurish and inappropriate just like our Nashua city government has been since Mayor Donchess took office. It would be amusing if our tax dollars weren’t being used to groom children.
| Photo Credit: Craig Michaud
