Stamford [CT] School Board President Appears On MTV's 'Drag My Dad'

STAMFORD, CT — As president of Stamford's Board of Education, Andy George is always looking to send an encouraging message to the city's youth. Last month, he took it to the extreme by appearing on MTV's newest show with his son, Brendan, but viewers may not immediately recognize them. The two were featured in an episode of "Drag My Dad," in which both men were dressed in drag by professional designers and makeup artists.

According to George, the idea originated with his son, a 23-year-old Stamford High School alumnus who is an aspiring actor in New York City and has come across opportunities with MTV before.

"[Brendan's] a good salesman," George said, "so he convinced me it would be fun to do as a bonding experience."

Beyond that, George also thought it might be a good way to spread an important message to others.

"Given my position as president of the Board of Education, there's probably a message that can be sent to other youth," George said. "If you'll watch the video, you'll come to realize that my son... did have these concerns about sexuality and felt, in some way, trapped. So, there's an underlying message that's it's OK to have these questions and it's better to discuss them and get them out, rather than build up anxiety internally and then wind up with a bigger problem."

The episode was filmed in April and released on Facebook last month. What sets this episode apart from others is the fact that both George and his son got to dress in drag, as it is usually just the dad who takes part in that aspect of the show.

"The series tends to focus on dads and sons who have more of a conflict," George said. "That's not the case with [us]. I guess that's why they decided to put Brendan in drag too, which is unusual. In other episodes, the sons just sort of help them make up their dad's drag...but we weren't trying to solve a relationship problem. Our relationship is good."

"The whole time, my dad has been beside me," Brendan George said at the end of the episode. "Now, as I'm continuing to figure out what queer means to me, here he is. This means a tremendous amount that I get to share this experience with him, and I'm sure we'll spend a long time reflecting on it."

George said the most challenging aspect of dressing drag was wearing high heels.

"They were very unstable," George said. "I had to walk around and sort of practice, because the outfit they had me in really did drape down to the floor. So it became a case of not wanting to step on my own outfit."

At one point during the episode, both men glued long nails onto their fingers and attempted to race each other to locate their phones in a bag filled with items. George said this proved to be a challenge, as he kept losing nails while rifling through the bag.

"It was funny," George said. "I guess I have an appreciation for people who are in drag, or even women who like to wear extra long nails, and some of the problems they have."

The episode culminates with the two revealing themselves in full drag to each other and their family. George said the experience of seeing himself in full drag for the first time was "a bit shocking," however, he seemed to quickly become comfortable during the reveal portion of the episode.

"I'm on the runway now, everybody's cheering and I feel beautiful," George said in the episode.

In all, the two enjoyed the experience and had a lot of fun. George was especially grateful to have had the opportunity to learn a little more about what his son experienced internally during high school.

"Let's put it this way: they asked me if I wanted to keep the costume, and I said no," George said with a laugh. "I don't think I'll have any future use for it."

I Feel Pretty
Leonard Bernstein

Featuring Carol Lawrence, Lynn Ross, Marilyn Cooper & 4 more
Produced by Goddard Lieberson

Album West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

[MARIA - Movie Lyrics]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
I feel pretty, and witty and gay
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me today

[Broadway Lyrics]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
I feel pretty, and witty and bright
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me tonight

I feel charming
Oh, so charming
It’s alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

[ROSALIA, CONSUELO, FRANCISCA]
Have you met my good friend Maria
The craziest girl on the block?
You’ll know her the minute you see her
She’s the one who is in an advanced
State of shock

She thinks she’s in love
She thinks she’s in Spain
She isn’t in love
She’s merely insane

[ROSALIA]
It must be the heat

[CONSUELO]
Or some rare disease

[FRANCISCA]
Or too much to eat

[CONSUELO]
Or maybe it’s fleas

[ROSALIA, CONSUELO, FRANCISCA]
Keep away from her
Send for Chino!
This is not the Maria
We know!

Modest and pure
Polite and refined
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!

[MARIA]
I feel pretty
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key
A committee
Should be organized to honor me

I feel dizzy
I feel sunny
I feel fizzy and funny and fine
And so pretty
Miss America can just resign!

See the pretty girl in that mirror there:

[ROSALIA, CONSUELO, FRANCISCA]
What mirror where?

[MARIA]
Who can that attractive girl be?

[ROSALIA]
Which?

[CONSUELO]
What?

[FRANCISCA]
Where?

[FRANCISCA]
Whom?

[MARIA]
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!

[ROSALIA]
Such a pretty me!

[CONSUELO]
Such a pretty me!

[FRANCISCA]
Such a pretty me!

[ALL]
I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running and dancing for joy
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!

Men and women in the schools are grooming kids to be sexually active. The world has been down this path before In Socialist Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. Orgies in the classrooms.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-sexual-revolution-and-children-how-the-left-took-things-too-far-a-702679.html
The Sexual Revolution and Children
How the Left Took Things Too Far
Germany’s left has its own tales of abuse. One of the goals of the German 1968 movement was the sexual liberation of children. For some, this meant overcoming all sexual inhibitions, creating a climate in which even pedophilia was considered progressive.

By Jan Fleischhauer and Wiebke Hollersen
July 02, 2010 03:22 PM

In the spring of 1970, Ursula Besser found an unfamiliar briefcase in front of her apartment door. It wasn’t that unusual, in those days, for people to leave things at her door or drop smaller items into her letter slot. She was, after all, a member of the Berlin state parliament for the conservative Christian Democrats. Sometimes Besser called the police to examine a suspicious package; she was careful to always apologize to the neighbors for the commotion.

The students had proclaimed a revolution, and Besser, the widow of an officer, belonged to those forces in the city that were sharply opposed to the radical changes of the day. Three years earlier, when she was a newly elected member of the Berlin state parliament, the CDU had appointed Besser, a Ph.D. in philology, to the education committee. She quickly acquired a reputation for being both direct and combative.

The briefcase contained a stack of paper — the typewritten daily reports on educational work at an after-school center in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, where up to 15 children aged 8 to 14 were taken care of during the afternoon. The first report was dated Aug. 13, 1969, and the last one was written on Jan. 14, 1970.

Even a cursory review of the material revealed that the educational work at the Rote Freiheit (”Red Freedom”) after-school center was unorthodox. The goal of the center was to shape the students into “socialist personalities,” and its educational mission went well beyond supervised play. The center’s agenda included “agitprop” on the situation in Vietnam and “street fighting,” in which the children were divided into “students” and “cops.”

Pantomiming Intercourse

The educators’ notes indicate that they placed a very strong emphasis on sex education. Almost every day, the students played games that involved taking off their clothes, reading porno magazines together and pantomiming intercourse.

According to the records, a “sex exercise” was conducted on Dec. 11 and a “f*&&ing hour” on Jan. 14. An entry made on Nov. 26 reads: “In general, by lying there we repeatedly provoked, openly or in a hidden way, sexual innuendoes, which were then expressed in pantomimes, which Kurt and Rita performed together on the low table (as a stage) in front of us.”

The material introduced the broader public to a byproduct of the student movement for the first time: the sexual liberation of children. Besser passed on the reports to an editor at the West Berlin newspaper Der Abend, who published excerpts of the material. On April 7, 1970, the Berlin state parliament discussed the Rote Freiheit after-school center. As it turned out, the Psychology Institute at the Free University of Berlin was behind the center. In fact, the institute had established the facility and provided the educators who worked there. Besser now believes that it was a concerned employee who dropped off the reports at her door.

A few days later, Besser paid a visit to the Psychology Institute in Berlin’s Dahlem neighborhood, “to take a look at the place,” as she says. In the basement, Besser found two rooms that were separated by a large, one-way mirror. There was a mattress in one of the rooms, as well as a sink on the wall and a row of colorful washcloths hanging next to it. When asked, an institute employee told Besser that the basement was used as an “observation station” to study sexual behavior in children.

It has since faded into obscurity, but the members of the 1968 movement and their successors were caught up in a strange obsession about childhood sexuality. It is a chapter of the movement’s history which is never mentioned in the more glowing accounts of the era. On this issue, the veterans of the late ‘60s student movement seem to have succumbed to acute amnesia; an analysis of this aspect of the student revolution would certainly be worthwhile....

(more at the link)

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