Kelsea Ballerini dances in protest with drag queens at 2023 CMT awards
nypost.comslain at the Nashville Covenant School shooting last Monday and recounted her own experience of being in a school shooting in Knoxville, Tennessee.“The community of sorrow over this and the 130 mass shootings in the U.S.
this year alone stretches from coast to coast,” the 29-year-old singer said.“I wanted to personally stand up here and share this moment because on Aug.
21, 2008, I watched Ryan McDonald, my 15-year-old classmate at Central High School, lose his life to a gun in our cafeteria.”The singer ended the speech by saying it is time for “real action that moves us forward together to create change for the safety of our kids and our loved ones.”Later in the show, Ballerini performed her most recent single, “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too),” accompanied by alumni from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — an act of protest against a proposed Tennessee law that would criminalize drag revues.Ballerini invited Manila Luzon, Kennedy Davenport, Jan Sport and Olivia Lux on stage as a symbol of protest to various proposed anti-drag legislature.The country superstar later tweeted a photo with the drag queens solidifying her support of the LGBTQ+ community. “If you go down, I’m going down too,” tweeted Ballerini with a rainbow flag emoji.
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