The Texas Republican state lawmaker, a former pastor, who authored an anti-drag bill appeared in a video, in drag, while skipping and running to the song “Sexy Lady.”
NBC News reports the editor of Living Blue in Texas, the “premier outlet for Democratic, Liberal, and Progressive news and opinion,” posted video of GOP state Rep. Nate Schatzline that shows him with three other people in costumes or drag, “skipping, running and dancing in a park while donning a black sequined dress and a red eye mask.”
“At the end of the roughly 90-second video — which plays over the song ‘Sexy Lady’ by Javi Mula — the four participants are named, including Schatzline, whose character is called ‘The Virgin,'” NBC says.
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The editor, identified only as “Michelle,” a “Native Texan, Mom, Writer, Editor, Liberal,” says on Twitter: “Nate Schatzline has made his entire personality attacking the LGBTQ community, trans especially children, and vowed to ban drag shows in Texas.”
“Here is Nate… in drag,” she tweeted (video below).
Schatzline’s Twitter bio reads, “Christian • Conservative • Husband and Father • State Rep for TX HD 93 • I’m ready to fight for your family and your liberties!”
He responded to the video not with a denial but trying to claim he was not in drag, while appearing to suggest all drag is “sexually explicit.”
“Y’all really going crazy over me wearing a dress as a joke back in school for a theatre project? Yah, that’s not a sexually explicit drag show… lol y’all will twist ANYTHING.”
“Michelle,” he adds, “please find something better to do than look up old videos from when people were in school.”
But Schatzline’s behavior appears to meet the definition of “drag performance” that his own legislation uses: “a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender identity that is different than the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other physical markers and sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise performs before an audience for entertainment.”
Schatzline’s bill would ban anyone from entering any venue that “authorizes on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages” and hosts a “drag performance.” It would also require any such business to be deemed a “sexually oriented business.”
Further encouraging businesses to ban drag performances, the legislation defines “sexually oriented business” as “a sex parlor, nude studio, modeling studio, love parlor, adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult video arcade, adult movie arcade, adult video store, adult motel, or other commercial enterprise the primary business of which is the offering of a service or the selling, renting, or exhibiting of devices or any other items intended to provide sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer; or … a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or other commercial enterprise that provides for an audience of two or more individuals a drag performance.”
Watch the video of Schatzline below or at this link.