National Geographic, a formerly grand American institution dating back to 1888 which was captured years ago by woke ideology (in 2017 it published a story celebrating the “Gender Revolution” with a nine-year-old trans child on the cover) has announced its nine “Travelers of the Year” for 2024. Is anyone surprised that the lineup includes a demonically costumed drag queen?
Wyn Wylie, who performs as a grotesque and insulting parody of a woman under the stage name “Pattie Gonia,” is a self-described “intersectional environmentalist, drag queen, and advocate for inclusivity in the outdoors” who works to “uplift LGBTQIA+ people and other underrepresented groups in the outdoors.”
The notion that drag queens are “underrepresented” anywhere in America today is demonstrably absurd. They are celebrated in the forefront of our cultural awareness in the media and entertainment arenas. They garner lucrative corporate sponsorships from the likes of The North Face and Bud Light. They are welcomed in libraries all across the country to groom children under the pretense of reading to them in “Drag Queen Story Hours.” In addition to the NatGeo accolade, Pattie Gonia has over 600,000 followers on social media, and he has the nerve to call himself underrepresented.
As for whether he and his ilk are underrepresented in the outdoors, who’s stopping them? Anyone of any race, sexual preference, or identity category is free to go camping, hiking, and sightseeing in any national park in the country, and always has been. If drag queens are “underrepresented” in the Great Outdoors, it’s no one’s fault but their own – certainly not the result of some mythical systemic oppression.
Nevertheless, to push back against (or rather, to exploit) this purported oppression, Pattie Gonia co-founded The Outdoorist Oath, a nonprofit which shrewdly links our culture’s obsession with gender ideology to climate change hysteria in an “action-based commitment for planet, inclusion, and adventure.” The organization asks members to take an oath to acknowledge climate change, commit to advocating for environmental justice, and recognize “that systemic oppression is real and that hatred, discrimination, and biases marginalize people.”
(Fact check: the only systemic oppression taking place in America today is the targeting of the cultural and political opponents of the Biden administration. They include parents being investigated as domestic terrorists for challenging the indoctrination of their children in an educational system captured by woke groomers; fathers being SWATted and jailed for pro-life activism; white soldiers in the military being demonized for the supposed existential threat of their “whiteness” and “white rage”; and Catholics under investigation by the FBI – not to mention the ongoing witch hunt of pro-Trump, January 6 protesters and their unconstitutional incarceration as political prisoners.)
Outdoorist Oath also predictably raises awareness about “the role White Supremacy plays into your experience in the outdoors” in activism workshops called “Stretch Sessions.” An announcement for one such workshop reads, “Confronting our white supremacy will never be easy, but it is a necessary step in creating a more inclusive and equitable outdoors.” It’s unclear what outdoor inequity is, or how in the world white supremacy “plays into your experience” while hiking or fishing, but again, the outdoors is already plenty inclusive. There are no squads of white supremacists setting up checkpoints at Yellowstone or Yosemite to prevent drag queens and black people from entering.
Also predictably, Outdoorist Oath recently felt compelled to issue a statement denouncing the “negative effects of colonization and imperialism,” supporting “Palestine,” and calling for a cease-fire in Israel’s righteous campaign to eradicate the savage terror group Hamas. None of this has anything to do with the outdoors; it’s all progressive virtue-signaling.
In related news, the New York Times reports that a funeral service was held on February 15 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City for Cecilia Gentili, an illegal alien, drug addict, prostitute, trans activist, and atheist. The Times noted with approval that Gentili’s “memorial functioned as both a celebration of her life and an exuberant piece of political theater,” thanks to the attendance of over “1,000 mourners, several hundred of whom were transgender” who arrived in “glittery miniskirts and halter tops, fishnet stockings, sumptuous fur stoles and at least one boa sewed from $100 bills.” A picture near the altar depicted a haloed Gentili surrounded by the Spanish words for “transvestite,” “whore,” “blessed” and “mother.”
Catholic League President Bill Donohue observed that many of those in attendance changed the words of “Ave Maria” to “Ave Cecilia” when it was sung, and shouted, “St. Cecilia, Mother Of All Whores.” He added that noted LGBT advocate Fr. James Martin called the event “wonderful” and declared that trans activists are “as much a part of the church as anyone else.”
Donohue also hastened to add that the “profane service” only happened because the person who made the arrangements withheld the blasphemous details of the event from the Church, admitting, “I kept it under wraps.” The Pastor of St. Patrick’s, wrote Donohue, said that the Cathedral “had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way.”
This ugly, disrespectful circus in a cathedral, along with NatGeo’s virtue-signaling inclusion of a drag performer among its “Travelers of the Year,” aren’t just silly, irreverent modern provocations against uptight old-timers; they are deadly serious examples of the ongoing offensive being waged by the radical left against all our social and cultural norms. Drag culture and the Astroturfed transgender craze are campaigns in the war on the biological binary; their mainstreaming is designed to hasten the Marxist abolition of the family by eradicating both natural and social distinctions between male and female. They are part of a transgressive revolution by the left designed to tear down the existing bourgeois order and replace it with a collectivist social justice utopia.
Rolling back the degradation of our culture begins with countering the false narratives being spread about systemic oppression and gender ideology by such cowardly corporate and media institutions as National Geographic, The North Face, and Bud Light. Make your voices heard and your dollars count.