Arkansas City (Kansas) Mayor Mel Kuhn wins the Men in Tights "beauty pageant"—a fundraiser for Court Appointed Special Advocates, a foster child support agency—for his portrayal of a drag queen named "Smellishis Poon" whose onstage act included backup dancers called the "Red Hot Puntangs." And, to top it all off, Kuhn performed in blackface.
That is one ginormous clusterfucktastrophe of misogyny, homo/transphobia, and racism. Wow.
[Via Memeorandum. Pam's got more.]
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