Byron Kennard: What's a Drag Queen Got to Do with Global Warming?

At the least, I thought, it's up to me as a gay environmentalist to take a stab at it. That's what the Rue Rylvester campaign is all about, a series of short (90-second) videos I'm posting on YouTube that poke fun at climate deniers.

Rue Rylvester (an actor in drag) is a shameless parody of Sue Sylvester, the villainous cheerleading coach that the Glee audience loves to hate. As the world's top-ranked "climate lifestyle coach," Rue tells clients that global warming simply isn't happening, or, if it is, humans certainly aren't causing it, but, well, since it is happening, the thing to do is relax and enjoy it.

Yep, this is crap, and Rue is full of it, but she's funny as the dickens. And that's -- thank you for asking -- what a drag queen has to do with global warming.

Byron Kennard

I’m a longtime environmentalist – decades ago, an organizer of the movement – who is struggling to convert my rage and frustration over today’s dysfunctional politics into satire.