{"id":1925101,"date":"2023-05-05T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-u-s-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:00:20","slug":"lol-u-s-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-u-s-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy appoints drag queen as digital ambassador to increase recruitment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Flol-u-s-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment%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=1925101&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--><h2>The Navy&#8217;s &#8220;Nonbinary&#8221; Drag Queen Digital Ambassador<\/h2>\n<p>The Navy is taking a bold step to attract younger Americans amid recruitment shortages by promoting a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag queen to be its first &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-unable-to-meet-recruiting-targets-the-u-s-navy-is-turning-to-drag-queens-for-help\/\" title=\"US Navy seeks help from drag queens to meet recruitment goals.\">digital ambassador<\/a>.&#8221; Joshua Kelley, an active sailor who performs under the stage name Harpy Daniels, announced on TikTok in November that he was invited to the program. Kelley has been performing on Navy ships since 2018 and claims to be an &#8220;advocate&#8221; for people who &#8220;were oppressed for years in the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Embracing Diversity and Inclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The program for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-u-s-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment\/\" title=\"US Navy appoints drag queen as digital ambassador to increase recruitment.\">digital ambassadors ran<\/a> from October 2022 to March 2023 and was designed to &#8220;explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates,&#8221; according to a Navy spokesperson. The military&#8217;s embrace of a drag queen comes as it struggles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamstrung-nypd-officers-seek-early-retirement-as-city-grapples-with-crime\/\" title=\"Hamstrung NYPD Officers Seek Early Retirement As City Grapples With Crime\">meet recruitment goals<\/a>. The Navy is projected to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goal this year, and the Army is expected to miss its goal again after only filling 45,000 slots out of its goal of 60,000 last year.<\/p>\n<h3>A Regular Performer on U.S. Military Ships<\/h3>\n<p>Kelley is a regular performer on U.S. military ships, according to the Daily Mail. He first started performing on ships after a sanctioned MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recruitment-crisis-explained-us-navy-names-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador\/\" title=\"US Navy hires drag queen as 'Digital Ambassador' amidst recruitment crisis.\">lip-syncing contest<\/a> in 2017, while deployed on the USS Ronald Reagan, and became a regular in the competitions. The officer insists he never experienced harassment in the Navy, but when he was scheduled to perform at a diversity, equity, and inclusion event at Langley Joint Air Force Base in the summer of 2022, it &#8220;caused an uproar to many conservatives and Christian extremists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Advocating for the LGBTQ+ Community<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and being able to do drag is not just for me, but a tribute to many service members who were kicked out, harassed, bullied, or worse for being openly gay during Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; Kelley told the USS Constitution Museum in an interview, referencing the Bush-era policy that discouraged military members from disclosing their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The Navy&#8217;s decision to promote a drag queen as a digital ambassador is a bold move to attract younger Americans and embrace diversity and inclusion. While it may cause controversy among some conservatives and Christian extremists, it is a step towards creating a more inclusive military that welcomes people of all backgrounds and identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy promoted a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag queen to be a &#8220;digital ambassador&#8221; in an effort to attract younger Americans amid recruitment shortages in the military.\u00a0 FreeBeaconRollneck Sweaters and \u2018The Delicate Brine of a Clambake\u2019READ MORE00:00\/00:40 Joshua Kelley, an active sailor, announced on TikTok in November that the Navy invited him to be its first &#8220;digital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925102,"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":[547],"tags":[11079,10746,9344,7069,5476,6758,7291,14756],"class_list":["post-1925101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-ambassador","tag-appoints","tag-digital","tag-drag","tag-increase","tag-navy","tag-queen","tag-recruitment"],"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\/1925101","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}