Drag is out
at Holy Redeemer
Published 08/09/2012
by Chuck Colbert
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67938 (http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=67938)
A local gay recovery group will not be holding its annual fall fundraiser in the social hall of the Castro neighborhood's Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church after officials said that no drag queens would be allowed.
For the past couple of years the Castro Country Club has held its event in the church's social hall and had drag queens as entertainment. As a statement issued by the country club's board of directors explained, the new no-drag-queen policy at the church is simply unacceptable.
"The Castro Country Club had planned to hold our third annual Harvest Feast on October 20, 2012, at Most Holy Redeemer Church, where we have held this and other events in the past," the directors said in a statement. But that changed when the club was notified by the church last week that they would not be able to hold the dinner if any drag queens were part of the program, the board said.