If you’re the kind of person who misses the lively entertainment and tomfoolery of the Jim Crow era, you would have loved to see Shirley Q. Liquor’s February 23 performance at popular Hartford gay club, Chez Est.
Unfortunately for those of you who enjoy a good shuck and jive, a group of young LGBT activists headed by Kamora Herrington and Gannon whose last name I don’t know, organized to have the show cancelled. And cancelled it was.
Then Liquor’s performance in New Orleans, scheduled for February 17, was cancelled.
Call it a series of victories in the war on blackface minstrelsy and racism.
Point is, the Wikipedia entry on Shirley Q. Liquor now mentions the Ban Shirley Q. Crew, the loose coalition of young, anti-racist mostly LGBT people from the Hartford area.
So, Charles Knipp, your days of making a livelihood by mocking black women is pretty close to being over. Heard you weren’t booking any more shows in the near future. Too bad. Aren’t their any Klan bar mitzvahs you can play at?
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