DRAG QUEENS AND FACEBOOK

 

As you all may know, I am probably the only one not on Facebook!!!!! Yes . it is true. I have never felt the need to be on there and plain just don't have the time. Between work, blogging and social life there is just no time. And besides, I'm in contact with past and present with who I want, so if your not in my life in some way it's because I don't want you there.  But, I'll let you in on a secret.....I did try to create a page  for my persona  once, to tie it into club dates, when I was still regularly doing drag, and to tie it to my blog, and it rejected my name!!!! So , it was a no go. But now apparently in a big way Face book is cracking down big time on the Drag Queens for not using their real names...AGAIN!!!!! Queens are getting sick on all this bull crap, and many are saying they hope FB becomes the next My Space. Now many queens are jumping to their own created Drag Book, where your free to be who you want to be.

 

 

In recent weeks, Facebook has been deleting the profiles of self-described drag queens and other performers who use stage names because they did not comply with the social networking site's requirement that users go by their "real names" on the site. A couple weeks ago, Facebook declined to change its policy after meeting with drag queens and a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. The company said is usually deletes accounts with fake names after investigating user complaints. This from Komo News......

"This policy is wrong and misguided," said Supervisor David Campos, who was flanked by seven drag queens during a press conference at San Francisco City Hall.

The drag queens and others in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community say many Facebook account holders fear using their real names for a variety of reasons, including threats to their safety and employment.

"I have crazy family members who I don't want contacting me through Facebook," said a self-described drag queen who calls herself Heklina.

Facebook said it temporarily restored hundreds of deleted accounts for two weeks. After that they'll have to either change their name to their real name, or convert their profile to a fan page.

Campos and the drag queens, led by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - a San Francisco group of drag performers and activists that's been around since 1979 - say they plan another meeting with Facebook and are hopeful that the company will ultimately alter its policy.

 

 

These days I could care less myself, but feel for the Queens who want to be on there. Just one more reason for me to dislike Facebook, among helping to socially retard people from interacting in person. Just the other day I was in our break lounge at work. No one talking hardly. ALL on Facebook pages.....constantly. With hardly any interaction. I also witnessed this out before in public. Even at the Raven, I have seen a group of guys out, made to effort to meet up, but then all stood around, on cells, looking at Facebook pages. What was the point of meeting up?

All this ruckus going on. I'm glad I never went to the dark side.