Kevin Sabo, who often plays with queer identities in his art, fears the laws could be expanded to censor his work
" Efforts to restrict the audience for drag shows have been seen by some in the art community as an attack on many of its members. Steffan Schlarb, owner of Schlomer Haus Gallery in San Francisco’s Castro District, which specialises in exhibiting the work of queer artists, identified anti-drag show legislation as “a dog whistle. Drag is used as an entrée into the entire queer experience. The larger view is that queer experience needs to be regulated, because it is a threat to society.” Protecting minors, he says, is simply the pretext for quashing an entire segment of the population."
