@Aryan steps out for a night of good clean Drag Queen fun!
A Leeds drag queen dressed up as Hitler last night
She called those who criticised her ‘small minded’
A drag queen performing at Mission 2 caused uproar last night when she turned up dressed as Hitler.
The event was a special “German Takeover” edition of HOMO, described as having a “cheeky German Market feel”.
However Iva Bouquet posted a photo in full Hitler costume, with the caption “Totally got theme wrong for tonight, I thought German takeover not German market haha”.
The picture was posted in Leeds Uni LGBTQ and Feminist Society pages, where many criticised her costume choice as being distasteful and making light of WWII atrocities.
While some believed that it was clearly satire – drawing parallels between this costume and the song “Springtime for Hitler” in The Producers – others felt that satire should only “punch up”.
They argued that although this costume may have been taking the piss out of Hitler, the fact is that Hitler is dead whereas Jews, gay people, disabled people, travellers, etc. still experience huge oppression for their identities.
With others drawing similarities between Nazi propaganda about Jewish people to the current media discourse surrounding Islam which they felt made this an inappropriate costume choice.
Iva Bouquet did change costumes later that night, removing the moustache and Nazi costume, saying that this was due to “small-minded people”.