CARTOON: “Over At The Frankenstein Place”

From Clay Jones on his political cartoon “Over At The Frankenstein Place,” North Carolina’s new anti-gay laws, and a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania

I’m gonna let you in on a little secret if you promise it won’t freak you out. You have already shared a public restroom with a transgender person. Oh no! Do you want to know why they were in there? They probably had to use the restroom. Freaks, I know. We should pass more laws.

That’s exactly what the mouth-breathing troglodytes did in North Carolina. Their largest city, Charlotte, passed some anti-discrimination laws and the GOP majority legislature along with their Republican governor freaked out. They passed a law forbidding municipalities from being tolerant.

Part of that law says people have to use the public restrooms where the sign coordinates with the gender written on their birth certificate. So basically, the government is enacting more wee-wee and hoo-ha legislation.

My city is pretty gay-friendly. We don’t have gay bars. We have gay-friendly bars. People really don’t care, though we are surrounded by counties that are totally red. There are occasional drag shows here. and afterward the performers go bar-hopping. I was playing pool one night in a dive bar (you know which one if you’re from Fredericksburg), and one of the performers was still in drag and using the urinal. Guys cleared out of that restroom as if he had ebola. To me, he wasn’t any different or threatening than any other guy in there. He just so happened to be a guy in a miniskirt and fishnet stockings. He couldn’t play pool worth a damn, though.

I’m dedicating this cartoon to my ex-wife, Chelle. We had a lot of shared interests, loves, inside jokes, and movies that we would quote. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” was one of them. Though I had seen the movies years before I met her and even participated in the rice-throwing and such at the theater, she really made me appreciate the movie … after making me watch it a thousand times.

I realize Doctor Frankenfurter is not transgender. He is in fact a “sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania.”

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