A leading taxpayer-funded California university will host what organizers are calling a “demonic” drag show steeped in the occult later this month. Known as “Drag me to hell,” the horror-themed drag festival is being marketed as a “one-of-a-kind Halloween event” for students.
“Join us for a festive night of dancing, drag, and dress-up!” reads the event description on the University of Southern California’s website featuring grotesque videos of men dressed as caricatures of women covered in blood and demonic regalia.
“Drag Me to Hell is a one-of-a-kind Halloween event inspired by queer pioneers in 1930s–60s Los Angeles who found refuge in science-fiction fandom and the occult underground,” the invitation continues.
Among other highlights, the event will feature “demonic drag performances” by performers who go by names such as “Specimen Scythe.” It will also include “world-renowned Dragula stars” Vander Von Odd and HoSo Terra Toma, the description says, adding that HoSo is short for “little fxxxxt” in Korean. '
Each of the drag queens has a short biography posted on the site. “Specimen Scythe,” for instance, is described as a “non-binary drag artist” who performs in “horror-themed drag, exploring the bizarre and the beautiful in their fearsome ensembles.” By day, the individual does “gender-affirming body modification.”
USC students are encouraged to wear their own do-it-yourself costumes for a contest hosted by “drag sensation Miss Toto.” That individual, who uses she/her pronouns, has raised over $50,000 for the Marxist “Black Lives Matter” movement as part of a “passion for philanthropy,” the site says.
Numerous faculty members are involved. And the event will feature music by USC Professor of “Sacred Music” Emily Sung, who focuses on “the intersection of vocals, gender expression, and technological experimentation in electronic music.”
The event is being organized by USC “Visions and Voices,” which is described as a “university-wide arts and humanities initiative that features a spectacular array of interdiciplinary [sic] events.” The demonic event is co-sponsored by the USC “Fisher Museum of Art.”
The demonic nature of what is happening is no longer hidden in the slightest. In fact, more and more, it is being openly celebrated. And it is being funded by taxpayers.
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