Education

Kids watch drag-queen movie at Tulsa Union school

October 17, 2024

Ray Carter

Students in a theater class at Union High School in Tulsa spent their final days before fall break watching a movie in which a drag queen was a main character, according to a report by Tulsa ABC-affiliate news station KTUL.

Catherine Davis, whose 15-year-old was among the students, said the movie “Kinky Boots” was inappropriate.

“I did not sign a consent form for this video,” Davis told KTUL. “We were not informed this video was being shown and we were not given options to opt-out.”

Davis signed a consent form at the start of the school year acknowledging that her child could be exposed to materials of a “more advanced nature,” but Davis added a note stating “as long as rape, incest, LGBTQIA material isn’t taught.”

The plot of “Kinky Boots” centers on efforts to save a shoe-making business by catering to drag-queen performers who wish to purchase fetish boots.

Davis noted to KTUL that the men in the movie were “not just wearing dresses, but lingerie and heels.”

One review of the movie declared that it “takes a familiar narrative and turns it into something extraordinarily queer.”

Another review of “Kinky Boots” stated that the employees of the shoe factory are forced to “adjust” in the course of the story.

“After decades of quiet pride, they must make footwear’s equivalent of porn,” the review stated.

Another review noted that the main drag-queen character in the movie is “dressed to kill when belting songs like ‘I Want to Be Evil’ in a meaty, gal-guy voice,” and declared the actor “amps and vamps the contrivances appealingly.”

Another review described the main drag-queen character as “spreading gender diversity like sequined butter through the factory’s blue-collar workforce.”

KTUL reported that Union school officials declined to comment.