DRAG QUEEN ORGANIZER TRIES TO CENSOR STRAIGHT PHOTO-JOURNALIST AT LGBTQ EVENT

 

Joe Uvalles II AKA Beatrix Lestrange

Local LGBTQ organizer, drag queen Joe Uvalles II, who performs as Beatrix Lestrange, tried to censor my reporting on the Market Square Pride event held today downtown.

"No pictures or videos," he told me as I attempted to photograph Pastor Ali, a young women who'd just told the audience "I'm queer and I'm a pastor.  Isn't that great?"

"What!" I exclaimed to Uvalles.  

"This is a public place and people are taking pictures and videos all over the place," I responded.

"Yes, but I don't like some of the things you write," claimed Uvalles.

I continued taking pictures, ignoring the conflicted, somewhat dense young man, who fights for LGBTQ rights, but doesn't afford the same respect to others. 

As far as my writing, I'm very tolerant and certainly have never said anything negative about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community.

I live and let live.