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there's so many young people here with
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their moms and their dads and their
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families it just means so much because I
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think back I mean I'm an older queen and
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you I know you can't tell they're all
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this makeup just to imagine like when I
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was like 12 or 15 when I was growing up
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in Kansas to have my mom or my dad go to
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something called rad con it makes you
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happy and makes you feel good and you
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know almost brings a tear to your eye
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because you you realize that there's
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other kids out there that they just wish
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they had a place like this it's my very
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first time I did not know what to expect
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there is so much diversity you were not
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going to see the same kind of Queen walk
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by twice so I've seen a couple but
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there's so much diversity here and it's
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amazing to see what kind of people latch
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onto what kind of claims and how they
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touch people in different types of ways
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it is amazing it is like glitter on
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overload I love it too that so much fun
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so much to do so many beautiful Queens
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there's so many vendors so many
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different avenues of drag it
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there's definitely more people this year
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the space is a lot bigger
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there's no negativity here everyone's
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positive everyone that I've met Queens
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regular people
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drats for me is always a way to give
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back to our community and to say
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something powerful to young kids would
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that be just be yourself
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love yourself it's about community and
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loving yourself and loving everyone it's
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like therapy like it's improved my my
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personal life I learned this ain't grown
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so much as a person because they taught
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me how to stay humble respectful and all
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it's to be yourself if I can go out
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looking like that
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exactly as they choose to
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teaches people to embrace themselves
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it's just the community of people and
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the acceptance of everyone that's
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society is to love each other they are
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times are changing I think parents are
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hopefully more accepting of their
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children
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there are a lot more children here than
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so I think times are changing and I
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think that's
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like have family support like that's
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just so rare and so wonderful people are
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here supported by their family it really
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brings joy to my heart to know that the
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parents let their kids lead
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being a mom I don't know what is in
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store for
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he goes up so I want him to be
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comfortable with telling me anything the
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stories where people were walking into
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the pub crying if their life was going
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so bad and they're walking out crying
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cuz they're laughing so hard
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you
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One may not anticipate describing RuPaul's DragCon as “sacred” but attending last week's 2018 LA convention was nothing short of that. Who would imagine the sterility of one of the world's largest convention venues could be so completely transformed by the pure heart of its attendees -- with as many families as Drag Queens, social change was not only in the air – it permeated it.
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