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Monday, July 2, 2012

Character Study Sharon Needles's Race War

Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:35 AM

The Stranger's most recent Loose Lips column featured this gossipy tidbit:

Another week, another white person trying and failing to make comedy out of the N-word. The latest offender/lesson-learner: Sharon Needles, winner of this year's RuPaul's Drag Race and Pride weekend headliner at Neumos's "Hey Tranny It's Tranny" show. While defending the comedic use of the semicontroversial "tranny," Needles pointed to many other much more offensive words, dropping some N-bombs that stunk up the joint like a nuclear-grade broccoli fart. Needles reportedly apologized.

As various internet explosions over the weekend made clear, this is not an isolated incident.

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bitch fell fast.
i.went to see her at neumos, ducked out to meet a freind at pike's fish and chips, and 10 minutes later 'needles' did her shtick and left the building.then i heard she used the fn word in reference to a friend of mine. like called him that. to his face. up til then i thought 'nedles' was a drug reference. i guess it's needles as in gettin on my damn nerves.
shoulda went to see latrice instead.

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on July 2, 2012 at 8:59 AM

The trannies are revolting!

Posted by Joan Jett Blakk on July 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM

making money from race-based controversy is dispicable. Needles claims that his repeated use of the n-word and appearances in black-face are part of an effort on his part defuse the word of its negative power. The same goes for swastikas and the confederate flag. One wonders how a white person on non-jewish origin could believe it was within their purview to launch such a campaign in the first place. He is clearly in it for the controversy and publicity.

Posted by thatsnotright on July 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM

I still love Sharon but the event over Pride was a total bummer. The promotion for the event had her as a headliner. She came out, sang one song, vented for a while and then left the stage. I'm glad it was a benefit but what a joke.

Posted by metardtard on July 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM