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Sitcom star and comedy legend George Lopez doesn’t want anyone to get away with dragging drag performers.
Appearing on Thursdays’ episode of The View, the 61-year-old Lopez vs. Lopez star slammed anti-drag bigotry after cohost Ana Navarro made a joke about Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, who signed the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill — also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — in early 2022, amid a rise in discrimination against drag performers around the country.
“If you’re an enemy of drag, you’re an enemy of mine,” Lopez said as the in-studio audience applauded.
Lopez’s words came after an earlier segment on The View that saw Navarro and cohost Sara Haines showing support for drag artists after Joy Behar (filling in for regular moderator Whoopi Goldberg) asked the panel to discuss embattled conservative congressman George Santos’ alleged past as a drag queen in Brazil named Kitara Ravache (a claim Santos, the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat, has denied). Continue reading…
