07/09/2023
‘I knew in my bones that if the attackers found us in drag, we would have been made an example. I feared for my life’, says Lebanese drag artist Emma Gration.
With her drag sister Latiza Bombe she had to go into hiding when a Beirut bar at which they were performing was raided by an extremist Christian group, on Wednesday August 23.
‘Friends were held captive inside, trapped in the bar. This is when I really, really, felt that community energy: their main concern was us. To bring us water, bring us wipes to take our make-up off. Because we didn’t have any regular clothes, they started stripping clothes off of each other to give to us, to prepare us for escape.’
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