Three French drag queens were chosen to carry this year’s Olympic flame “as it makes its way to Paris for the Summer Games in July.” These are Nicky Doll, Miss Martini, and Minima Geste.
According to a post she posted on Instagram on Saturday 11th May, French drag diva Miss Martini became the first drag queen to ever carry the Olympic flame. Drag Race France presenter Nicky Doll, a Parisian drag queen, trailed behind her and carried the flame the next day. Doll said that carrying the Olympic flame was a “true honour” in an Instagram post of her own. Doll also called for a truce in Palestine through her Instagram post.
“Even though I usually prefer to act on things rather than hope for them: I would like to use this opportunity to hope for the immediate ceasefire in Rafah and for dignity to be brought back to Palestine and its people who tremendously suffered throughout these awful times and beyond,” Doll wrote, while expressing hope for “the safe release of the Israeli hostages” and hope that people would not “allow racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism to run wild again.”
And then we get yet another drag queen, the third, who is Minima Geste, who is scheduled to carry the Olympic torch on 14th July in Paris. After receiving right-wing backlash, which the media reported as “homophobic and transphobic harassment,” the Mayor Anne Hidalgo came out in full support for her.
Geste told Agence France-Presse that one of the messages that she wants to carry is pride in her community, because to have a drag queen carrying the torch would have been unimaginable ten years ago.
No, it is all a pure coincidence. No, there is no agenda. No, this is about educating the public to be accepting and tolerant. No, it is just a matter of having the LGBTQIA+ agenda ignite this year’s Olympic flame.
