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FIRE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

June is Pride Month, and I was trying to think of something to post about, whether it\u2019s brands doing right during Pride Month<\/a> (uplifting, but done already) or Target\u2019s disappearing Pride merchandise<\/a> (significant, but probably more involved than I\u2019m personally equipped to address and also rather a bummer) and I kept coming back to Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bugs Bunny has been a drag icon since before such things existed, first slipping into women\u2019s ruffly lingerie in 1942\u2019s \u201cThe Wabbit Who Came to Supper<\/a>.\u201d And like any Shakespearean actor worth his salt, he\u2019s been playing both hero and bewigged love interest as needed ever since. Has he been a mermaid? A southern belle? Jos\u00e9phine Bonaparte? You\u2019re damned straight he has been.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, in the more than eight decades since Bugs somehow tracked down a pair of ruffled bloomers with a tail-hole, no one has accused Bugs and\/or Warner Brothers of \u201cgrooming\u201d anyone. No one banned Bugs from library story hour on account of his drag tendencies. No one declared his drag inherently sexual \u2014 even when he was actively seducing Elmer Fudd. No one ever worried that seeing Bugs in drag would encourage kids to start donning wigs and bustiers. No one was afraid that watching \u201cCarrotblanca<\/a>\u201d would give their kids a contact gay.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because that\u2019s not how gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation work. Being queer is perfectly valid, and it\u2019s inherent, not created in an instantaneous sexual 180 triggered by a kid overhearing that sometimes dudes kiss other dudes. If that were the case, it probably wouldn\u2019t have taken 60 years for same-sex marriage to be legalized after Bugs and Elmer tied the knot<\/a>. Bugs is fine and has been fine because deep down in a place some of us aren\u2019t willing to acknowledge, we know that what he\u2019s been doing for 85 years now has been fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all: If you\u2019re going to get your panties in a twist about drag, at least understand what it is.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Drag, despite ongoing conflation in current media, is not<\/em> the same as being transgender. In fact, the vast majority of drag queens are gay cis men when they\u2019re out of character. Drag is a fun and funny and not inherently sexual<\/em> way of playing with gender presentation whilst performing show tunes. Can<\/em> it be sexualized? Sure. So can just about any form of media. But no one freaked out when Bugs wrapped his bra around Elmer\u2019s head in \u201cA Corny Concerto<\/a>,\u201d and no one needs to freak out about a Sunday mid-morning drag brunch (not that it stops people from trying).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the irony is that people sexualize their own kids all the time<\/em>. We\u2019ll dress up kids in \u201cLock Up Your Daughters\u201d infant onesies<\/a>, and assign them boyfriends and\/or girlfriends before they\u2019re fully potty-trained<\/a>, and threaten violence against tweens’ purely hypothetical future suitors<\/a>, and that\u2019s in no way sexualizing innocent children, but god forbid Cholula Lemon should read It\u2019s Okay to Be Different<\/em> wearing a sparkly, high-necked pink dress and blazer at a public library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cHey, big boy, what do you say we cuddle up here and trust our audience to enjoy entertainment and not be so fearful and hung up on natural variations in human gender identity and sexuality that they act like complete idiots when confronted with a book about gay penguins?\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to say, \u201cWell, it\u2019s different. Bugs Bunny is a cartoon.\u201d But that\u2019s still not enough to appease some people. Roy and Silo were freaking penguins, but their Alternative Lifestyle has been enough to get And Tango Makes Three<\/em> banned from libraries across the country. Everywhere Babies<\/em>, a board book for literal infants, has been challenged because a few of the hand-drawn babies incidentally have same-gender parents. It\u2019s a cliche to say \u201cyou couldn\u2019t make this today,\u201d but come on \u2014 you know there\u2019s no way Bugs\u2019s yellow crop top<\/a> would make it to primetime in our current cultural climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 Or would it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second of all: Instead of creating innovative new ways to be bigoted, we can just be better. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All of this is fun and funny, of course, but there\u2019s something important, too: LGBTQ+ individuals have existed since time immemorial \u2014 sometimes being embraced by their communities, overwhelmingly forced to hide their identities, but always been there. And to be clear, mid-to-late-20th-century America was hardly an LGBTQ+ utopia of peace and acceptance \u2014 I mean, let\u2019s not forget that Stonewall is the reason for the season<\/a>. But even in the midst of that hostility, communities weren\u2019t seeing this bizarre amassed cohort of people collectively pee-peeing their britches over the very thought of non-cis-straightness, to the extent that they\u2019d fight \u2014 vocally, legislatively, Target-Pride-display-trashingly \u2014 against any possible<\/em> representation of life outside of an extremely specific standard for gender presentation and sexual orientation, as if queerness is some sci-fi disease spread via knowing it exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we\u2019ve seen a beloved character gender-bending his way through our hearts for 85 years now. We\u2019ve seen him evade all the tired dude-in-a-dress gags and just be a pretty anthropomorphic lady-rabbit. We\u2019ve watched him fool an idiot hunter over and over again just by dressing up. He\u2019s been a touchstone for generations of LGBTQ+ people watching him wear a dress and smooch a guy and fool an idiot and come out on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, one cartoon character isn\u2019t going to bring everyone together. People who are fearful and hateful and bigoted aren\u2019t going to suddenly become accepting and embracing just because a rabbit sometimes wore a dress. But the fact remains: If the only thing we have in common is loving a rabbit who sometimes wore a dress, we have a thing in common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you\u2019re pee-peeing your britches over a Pride display in Target, I\u2019d better not see you in a Looney Tunes t-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly of all: Happy Pride to all who celebrate.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Oh, and third of all: Please visit Messy Nessy Chic<\/a> and CBR<\/a> for the most incredible, informative, comprehensive, fascinating<\/em> deep-dives into Bugs Bunny\u2019s history as a queer icon.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this Pride Month, here\u2019s to Bugs Bunny \u2014 dress-wearing, dude-marrying, proud-to-be-himself, unlikely LGBTQ+ icon Bugs. But more importantly, here\u2019s to all the real, live-action human beings walking around, proud to be them<\/em>selves, and all the people who aren\u2019t out quite yet but will be. Thanks to all who have come before us and risked everything to get us as far as we\u2019ve come, and may all the allies out there commit to creating a world where everyone can truly feel safe to live openly and proudly as they really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if that means putting on a blue dress and luring a Confederate soldier into a room to get blown up by a cannon, all the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Pride, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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