Insurance rates are ballooning in Florida, but drag queens are GOP legislators’ latest obsession, so it’s no surprise that on Thursday, Dec. 29, Proud Boys and fanatical evangelists grooming people for second coming of Christ stood outside Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall to demonstrate against Nina West’s “Drag Queen Christmas” which had already caved to pressure and made the show 18 & up. The man children were met by anti-fascist and pro-LGBTQ rights activists, all under the eye of Clearwater police.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...