
CV NEWS FEED // A group of drag performers have launched an organization called “Qommittee” that aims to “fight back hard against violence, threats, doxxing, and harassment” and become “a force to be reckoned with.”
Qommittee published a “Call to Action” on its website that states the organization’s main goals. The header reads: “Drag is joy, but it’s under attack. Our very existence, our self-expression, our art–all of it is being threatened. And we’ve had enough.”
On its “About Us” page, Qommittee describes itself as “a year-long national drive to build a network of drag artists, fans and allies to help drag artists respond to hate and navigate the business of their art.” The page adds:
From June 2024 to June 2025, a group of organizers and drag artists are embarking on a national membership drive to recruit enough drag artists and members to establish a viable national organization and do some important work in the meantime.
Qommittee also plans to provide therapy, legal assistance, and “advocacy support to artists targeted for hate.”
According to a May 29 article by the Associated Press News, Qommittee “is already working to create dialogue between its members and local law enforcement agencies, organizers said.”
The “Call to Action” page highlights: “We need thousands of you to join our membership drive and help us turn Qommittee into a force to be reckoned with.”
According to the AP’s report, the organization’s president is B. Williams, “a drag king who performs in Washington, D.C., as Blaq Dinamyte.”
“The Qommittee stands as a kind of a central hub for other communities across the country, the performance communities across the country, to find resources to help them,” Williams told the AP, “whether it is negotiating with venues or … helping defend against the many protests against drag shows that we’ve seen.”
Qommittee’s “Call to Action” page claims that drag performers are “battling a tidal wave of hate,” including “doxxing, harassment, death threats, armed protests, bombings, and even shootings.” The group also claims that “Hateful politicians want to police gender expression and our art through intimidation and legislation.”
CatholicVote Vice President Joshua Mercer noted that the aggressive language of the group seems intended to menace even peaceful opponents of the LGBTQ movement.
“Qommittee’s language blurs the line between physical attacks – including ‘bombings’ – and ‘harassment’ – lumping those two extremely different things together as if they were both just as violent and hateful,” Mercer said. “Harassment’ is such a questionable term. It’s the kind of accusation activists might throw at people who merely disagree with them or verbally express their own Christian beliefs – which of course is protected under the First Amendment.”
