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The story of the governor, the transvestite and the tax credit began when Gavin Newsom first ran for office and called on the support of the state’s wealthiest and most famous transvestite.

“I’m honored to have your vote,” Newsom told Ru Paul. The celebrity millionaire drag queen endorsed Newsom in the governor’s race and praised him for having “changed the course of history for LGBT Americans” and for legalizing drugs. “Legal weed, baby!”

The campaign video posted on Newsom’s social media and on the World of Wonder company which produces Ru Paul’s Drag Race raised legal and campaign issues that were never addressed. Those issues have only become more serious after World of Wonder received a $1.7 million film tax credit for a production listed only as ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’.

California’s notoriously corrupt film tax credit system exploded under Gov. Gavin Newsom.

$192 million in film credits were allocated when Newsom ran for office. California currently offers $350 million in film tax credits and as Newsom prepares for a presidential run, he’s ignoring budget deficits and is working to more than double the amount of money to $750 million.

This massive unprecedented giveaway to Newsom’s Hollywood donors comes as California is in financial trouble and is making deep cuts in public services, but tens of millions have already been awarded to the productions of major companies like Disney, Apple and Warner Bros.

The good news is that Gov. Newsom didn’t forget his drag queen friends. ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’ got $1.7 million at the expense of California taxpayers. And while that $1.7 million is far less than some bigger movies received, it’s around 25% of Drag Queen’s $6.6 million budget.

While there’s no word on the content, World of Wonder is the epicenter of a ‘drag queen’ empire with DragCon conventions in Los Angeles that claim to have hundreds of thousands of attendees, massive merchandising and a great deal of enthusiasm for targeting children.

Behind Ru Paul, a black man, and World of Wonder, are Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, two white producers. The name ‘World of Wonder’ appears to come from a British children’s magazine that was popular when Bailey was growing up.

“It’s kids’ response to the show that is most inspiring to us,” Bailey, a gay British immigrant, told the Los Angeles Blade. “Kids today, they don’t care about that. They just love it. It’s like Big Bird or UglyDolls or Lego movies, and they respond to that”.

Drag Con features ‘performances’ by children, the inevitable ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’, and Bailey raves about “younger kids dragging their mums and dads along.”

Around the same time that Newsom was getting his endorsement from World of Wonder, the production company debuted ‘Drag Tots’, an animated series targeting children,  in which Ru Paul as ‘Corny the Unicorn’ promotes being a drag queen to kids.

‘Drag Tots’ is one of several ‘children’s’ shows produced by World of Wonder.

Alongside its promotion of transvestites as glamorous to adults and children, World of Wonder also prides itself on producing ‘documentaries’ negatively portraying Christianity.

Bailey has donated to Hillary Clinton and Pete Buttigieg. Barbato donated to Obama, Biden and Sen. Adam Schiff, but much as the Newsom endorsement demonstrated, World of Wonder has a larger entanglement with the Democrats through its celebrity presence than just with money.

In 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a “Pride Month” and invited Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce, who identifies as ‘Shangela’, a celebrity veteran of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, to speak. The two took a selfie together. He boasted of being “the first drag queen in drag to ever attend an event at the residence of the Vice President of America” and declared “drag queens belong everywhere, especially in the residence of the vice president.” Pierce was repeatedly accused of sexual assault including in a lawsuit filed earlier this year.

No matter how much World of Wonder and its Democrat allies pretend that the drag queen business is detached from sexual exploitation, Ru Paul got his start as early as 15 years old. In one of his early camera appearances, he could be seen claiming that “the meat market is filled with transvestite hookers by night… maybe I’ll make my rent money.”

$1.7 million in taxpayer money can cover a great deal of rent.

And with World of Wonder’s history, it is not at all impossible that California taxpayers may have been entrapped into funding a transgender movie meant to have an impact on children.

Seven years ago, Gov. Newsom told Ru Paul that he was “honored and humbled” to have his support. The sexual assaults and the targeting of children don’t seem to have changed his mind any. While the governor claims to have moderated some of his transgender positions on his podcast, the $1.7 million in funding to ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’ suggests otherwise.

Transvestites transform themselves by changing their clothes and politicians undergo their own makeovers for different audiences. The best way to judge a man may be not by how he wants to be seen, but by what he actually does. Even as Gov. Gavin Newsom preps for a presidential run by claiming to be a born-again moderate, he’s pushing a $750 million giveaway to Hollywood.

The Gavin Newsom who stood on stage with Ru Paul and announced that he was “honored and humbled” to have the support of the drag queen is still the same man even with a moderate makeover. And if there’s any doubt about that, the $1.7 million in funding for a drag queen movie by a company that targets kids ought to end the question of what Newsom really believes.

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[2] Ex-Illegal Alien Senator Suspected of Bribery Leads California’s Insurance: CLICK HERE.

[3] Company That May Have Started L.A. Fires Donated Millions to Dems: CLICK HERE.

[4] California’s Legislature Hides FBI Investigations in the “Public Interest” CLICK HERE.

[5] An Assassination Has Ties to California’s Political Elite: CLICK HERE.

[6] California’s Most Corrupt Congressman Wants to ‘Drain the Swamp’: CLICK HERE.