{"id":1776494,"date":"2022-12-15T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776494"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:18:16","slug":"south-dakota-state-university-hosted-a-kid-friendly-drag-show-and-gov-kristi-noem-is-doing-nothing-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-state-university-hosted-a-kid-friendly-drag-show-and-gov-kristi-noem-is-doing-nothing-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota State University Hosted A \u2018Kid-Friendly\u2019 Drag Show And Gov. Kristi Noem Is Doing Nothing About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-dakota-state-university-hosted-a-kid-friendly-drag-show-and-gov-kristi-noem-is-doing-nothing-about-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>South Dakota State University hosted a \u201ckid-friendly\u201d drag show, on state property and in a taxpayer-funded building, that may be illegal under the state\u2019s \u201charmful to minors\u201d legislation, yet the state\u2019s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has not taken any steps to rectify the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Noem has failed to hold accountable the school\u2019s governing body, the South Dakota Board of Regents, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/sdlegislature.gov\/Statutes\/Codified_Laws\/2042636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">members<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sdlegislature.gov\/Statutes\/Codified_Laws\/2033557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noem has the power to fire<\/a>. Noem also has not called on the state\u2019s attorney general to enforce South Dakota\u2019s \u201charmful to minors\u201d laws. Furthermore, it is a governor\u2019s job to make policy suggestions for state lawmakers, yet she has failed to push for bills that would ensure children are protected from similar events in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the Nov. 16 event, which was orchestrated by the Gender &#038; Sexualities Alliance student group, student organizers encouraged attendees, which presumably included children, to \u201cShow [their] support for the drag queens by bringing $1 or $5 bills to tip.\u201d After backlash from locals, the student organizers, university president, and local ABC-affiliate newspaper jumped to defend the lewd performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a piece subtly defending the event, Dakota News Now reporter John Gaskins\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2022\/11\/17\/sdsu-drag-show-organizers-performers-explain-their-kid-friendly-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0that the event featured \u201cage-appropriate attire, music, and behavior.\u201d His source? One of the drag queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A South Dakota State University student, who attended the \u201ckid-friendly\u201d drag performance and wishes to remain anonymous, told The Federalist the show was anything but child appropriate. \u201c[The drag queens] were twerking and then also shaking their chests at people,\u201d the student said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Devin Basart, one of the drag queen performers who goes by the stage name \u201cDevondra Shakers,\u201d claimed in the local paper that he and the other performers are \u201ceducating children to love who you are.\u201d However, The Federalist\u2019s student source said \u201cthere wasn\u2019t anything educational at all about the drag show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University President Barry Dunn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2022\/11\/16\/sdsu-did-not-sponsor-student-led-drag-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deflected<\/a> criticisms over the event by pointing out that the performance was sponsored by the Gender &#038; Sexualities Alliance student group, not the university, and that students have a right to host any kind of event they chose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s true student groups can host a drag show, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they have a right to host a drag show for minors. According to Steve Haugaard, a current South Dakota legislator and former speaker of the state House of Representatives, there\u2019s a case to be made that the \u201ckid-friendly\u201d drag show is illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under South Dakota\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sdlegislature.gov\/Statutes\/Codified_Laws\/2047386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">law<\/a>, a \u201cshow or other presentation which depicts nudity [or] sexual conduct\u201d are deemed \u201charmful to minors,\u201d and it is illegal to \u201csell[] or give[] to a minor an admission ticket\u201d for such a performance. Drag shows are arguably, by their nature, prurient, meaning excessively sexual and deviant, and the South Dakota legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/sdlegislature.gov\/Statutes\/Codified_Laws\/2047410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">considers<\/a> prurient material and displays \u201charmful to minors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist reached out to Dunn to ask whether he believes the university should be hosting sexually inappropriate performances for minors on university property but did not hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s already some precedent for labeling drag shows prurient and therefore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drag show may be illegal under South Dakota&#8217;s &#8216;harmful to minors&#8217; law, yet the governor has not taken any steps to rectify the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1776497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[9347,5751,7069,6919,8338,9346,9345,8794,3960,4861],"class_list":["post-1776494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-kid-friendly","tag-dakota","tag-drag","tag-federalist","tag-gov","tag-hosted","tag-kristi","tag-noem","tag-south","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}