Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection, and I'm Dom Davis.
Speaker 1: We have the Washington County Democratic Party all right here
Speaker 1: with this, not the whole party, but just you know,
Speaker 1: we got Randy Randy here with us. And Randy, this
Speaker 1: is an interesting situation that you have coming up here.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a It's something I hadn't heard until
Speaker 1: just when you walked in. So I tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about this Queen for a Night event.
Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good I'm awake.
Speaker 3: Well that's good. See you got half of it cured
Speaker 3: right there being awake. The rest of it, it's just
Speaker 3: it's it's icing on the cake. Dde.
Speaker 2: He's a cake.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 4: Now the event we're really excited about. We've been working
Speaker 4: on it for a couple of months.
Speaker 2: Quinn for Night.
Speaker 4: Basically, as I was explaining, it's it's a theatrical event
Speaker 4: as well as an educational event. What we're going to
Speaker 4: do is it's going to be held at the Theater Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: They're at three twelve South Dewey. Tomorrow night starts at
Speaker 4: seven o'clock. We're going to be having a show. But
Speaker 4: we're also going to be discussing the recently passed bill
Speaker 4: that HB twelve to seventeen bill. As I was explaining it,
Speaker 4: that bill is similar to what's already on the books,
Speaker 4: but this bill has been loosely written to where it
Speaker 4: kind of leaves the interpretation open to each individual on
Speaker 4: whether or not they feel something is obscene or lewde primarily.
Speaker 4: Although the bill doesn't use the words, it's going after
Speaker 4: drag performers. They're trying to classify them the same as
Speaker 4: strippers and other adult entertainers.
Speaker 1: I want to give you the opportunity to clarify, Yes,
Speaker 1: the difference is you see that because that was a
Speaker 1: broad brush and I want to give you the opportunity
Speaker 1: to delineate the difference in performance.
Speaker 2: And the performers between one and the other.
Speaker 4: So I've been singing now for about thirty five years,
Speaker 4: and of that I have performed probably for about thirty
Speaker 4: years in a variety of shows. A lot of the
Speaker 4: shows have had drag performers in them, so I have
Speaker 4: had first hand experiences to what goes into getting into drag.
Speaker 2: And you know, a.
Speaker 4: Couple of years ago I actually got to do it.
Speaker 4: Myself when I was on HBO. We're here when they
Speaker 4: come to town, so I can tell you I had
Speaker 4: fifteen pairs of pantyhose on. I had so much fabric
Speaker 4: I literally was cooking to death. So when I hear
Speaker 4: people say that drag performers have exposed themselves, I kind
Speaker 4: of want to know how, because they got too much
Speaker 4: stuff on. It takes fifteen minutes to get undone so
Speaker 4: they can go to the bathroom. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 4: that drag performers in the bar in an adult situation
Speaker 4: aren't adult as far as their conversations and go in
Speaker 4: a bar setting where it's twenty one and up. But
Speaker 4: in a situation like outdoors, like in a Pride celebration.
Speaker 4: You know, they have two different types of shows. They
Speaker 4: have the adult show and they have the family friendly shows.
Speaker 4: Family friendly shows, you know, they watch their language. They
Speaker 4: make sure that they're dressed appropriately. You don't really see skin,
Speaker 4: you know, because of the leggings, the body suits, all of.
Speaker 2: That is covered what it is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, we had a street preacher
Speaker 4: come to the areas who stirred a lot of lies,
Speaker 4: a lot of mistruth and there's a lot of people
Speaker 4: who never bothered to fact check.
Speaker 2: They just went along with it. They bought into it.
Speaker 4: There was drag in our Pride events before that, and
Speaker 4: nobody ever said a word, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: it's this big, horrible, evil ephant elephant in the room.
Speaker 4: So we're basically wanting to show everybody that anybody can
Speaker 4: do drag any.
Speaker 3: Walk of life.
Speaker 4: It's not horrible people with criminal records or pedophiles that
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 2: At our event, we're going to have.
Speaker 4: Four professional drag performers who are as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 4: they're family to me. I've been performing with many of
Speaker 4: them for years, well since I moved to Oklahoma. I've
Speaker 4: been in shows with them. We've got four individuals who
Speaker 4: have never done drag are going to be put in
Speaker 4: drag for the first time. They've been practicing really hard
Speaker 4: at the theater. We have hair stylists that are working
Speaker 4: on the hair. The theater has been great to us,
Speaker 4: allowing us to use some of their costumes, and so
Speaker 4: we're going to put a show on for everybody. We're
Speaker 4: also going to discuss, like I said, the bill, and
Speaker 4: we're going to kind of let people know what they
Speaker 4: can do to be more active in their communities and
Speaker 4: to try to fight against some of the policies the
Speaker 4: politicians that are trying to take rights away from everybody.
Speaker 4: Our slogan is when they come for one, they come
Speaker 4: for all.
Speaker 2: And it is true.
Speaker 4: It's they're going to come for one thing, and the
Speaker 4: next thing they don't like, they'll come after, and the
Speaker 4: next thing they'll come after. And if you just set
Speaker 4: back silently and say, well, my vote doesn't count, eventually
Speaker 4: your vote's not going to count, and they'll come for
Speaker 4: your rights.
Speaker 3: So we're speaking with Randy White.
Speaker 1: He's the male Affirmative Officer for Washington County Democrat Party
Speaker 1: and treasurer for the Oklahoma for.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State Homela Stone Wall Federation.
Speaker 1: There and this is a presentation that is called Queen
Speaker 1: for a Night.
Speaker 3: Tickets are twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: And I want to give you a chance to to
Speaker 1: maybe speak to someone like like anyone that this might
Speaker 1: be foreign to them, something that they've never you know,
Speaker 1: thought of, never you know, never crossed their mind, and
Speaker 1: it may appear to be stranger, startling. Yes, I want
Speaker 1: to open that door to you as as a courtesy
Speaker 1: so that you know, we can we can hear what
Speaker 1: you which is which.
Speaker 3: You got to say, well, now that's defined or Yeah.
Speaker 4: What I would say is a if you've never been
Speaker 4: to a drag performance, go to one.
Speaker 2: Talk to the performers.
Speaker 4: The all the ones that I have met over the
Speaker 4: years are just everyday people. They love what they do.
Speaker 4: It's some of them they do it for fun. Some
Speaker 4: of it, like I was talking about the one performer
Speaker 4: who as a veteran, has a beautiful wife, beautiful kids,
Speaker 4: does it because not only the fun, but the money.
Speaker 4: You know, he makes amazing money. They do it for fun.
Speaker 4: They don't do it to cause problems. They don't do
Speaker 4: it to be lure children in. Like, there's so many misconceptions.
Speaker 4: So what I would say is go to a show
Speaker 4: and just meet the performers and talk to them, because
Speaker 4: you'll find that they're just amazing people.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is the opportunity, will be tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at the theater Bartlesville, Queen.
Speaker 4: For Night, Yes, and we're gonna have meet and greet
Speaker 4: after the show. So you have the easy opportunity to
Speaker 4: meet some of the performers and we're gonna have concessions
Speaker 4: all donation, all the proceeds we will be putting towards
Speaker 4: our party, which helps elect officials to kind of fight
Speaker 4: for everybody's rights in Oklahoma, not just a few. And
Speaker 4: it's just gonna be a fun night if I survived it.
Speaker 3: If you make it sound like you might fall.
Speaker 4: No, it has just been We have worked so hard
Speaker 4: to get myself and the rest of the group have
Speaker 4: worked so hard to get to this point. You know,
Speaker 4: Tammy Schmidt, Avery Higgs, that was their vision to start
Speaker 4: out doing this, and then we come on board and
Speaker 4: we've just worked effortlessly to make this a fun of it.
Speaker 4: And I'm still trying to figure out how to get
Speaker 4: the laptop paired with the Bluetooth projectors so that we
Speaker 4: can show slides because we kind of want to show
Speaker 4: slides of each drag kid what they're like in their
Speaker 4: normal daily life. And then the process of picking out
Speaker 4: clothes and stuff like that that may or may not happen.
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you right now, but yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: gonna be a fun night.
Speaker 1: I both want to know more about the Washington County
Speaker 1: Democrat Party.
Speaker 3: Yes, do you have a website or a Facebook page?
Speaker 4: We do, and I don't know if I can read
Speaker 4: my paper right now, but they can go online to
Speaker 4: the Washington County Democrat Facebook page yep. Or you can
Speaker 4: just google it and it'll pull you right up to
Speaker 4: our website. From the website and the Facebook page, if
Speaker 4: you're interested in tickets, there is links on there that
Speaker 4: will take you to Act Blue and you can purchase
Speaker 4: tickets online. We're going to try to have it where
Speaker 4: you can purchase them at the door as well.
Speaker 3: This is what they call you walk up community.
Speaker 4: Yes, and bring one dollar bills if you're coming, because
Speaker 4: all of our performers have volunteered to do this, but
Speaker 4: we feel like as hard as they're working, you know,
Speaker 4: we want them to take something away with them.
Speaker 2: So the tips for the performers they get to keep.
Speaker 4: Everything else that we raise, you know, goes for the fundraiser.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, Randy White, thank you for coming in, Thanks for
Speaker 3: talking about this.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. It is going to be fun. And
Speaker 2: hope see y'all there all right.
Speaker 3: Hope you've been watching and listen