An anti-LGBTQ+ activist helped a drag queen become America’s #1 Christian musician (lgbtqnation.com)

Flamy Grant and Derek Webb in "Boys Will Be Girls" Photo: YouTube screenshot

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For the first time in history, a drag queen’s album has attained the number one spot on the Christian and Gospel iTunes music charts, and it’s all due to an anti-LGBTQ+ Christian whose attempt to shame her spectacularly backfired.

Last month, Christian musician Derek Webb collaborated with Christian drag musician Flamy Grant for the music video to “Boys Will Be Girls,” Webb’s song about loving queer people who have been abandoned by the church.

In the video, Grant helps Webb transform into a blue-haired drag queen, and the two sing the song’s final verse inside of a church.

The final verse states: “I heard Jesus loved and spent his life with those who / Were abandoned by proud and fearful men / So if a church won’t celebrate and love you / They’re believing lies that can’t save you or them / ‘Cause you’re so beautiful by any name.”

Apparently upset by the video, anti-LGBTQ+ Christian activist Sean Feucht — a man who accused Disney of “fighting for children to be sexually indoctrinated as a kindergartner” — wrote via Twitter on July 26 that Webb is part of the “deconstruction movement,” a movement within the Evangelical Christian church urging people to question and leave behind any negative religious beliefs that they were raised with.

Grant then announced via social media, “Ok I’m gonna do it. Sean Feucht thinks ‘hardly anyone’ is interested in a worship song by a drag queen. How about we try to get my song Good Day to chart on Christian iTunes?”

She succeeded far beyond her initial goal. Not only did the song become number 2 on iTunes’ Christian and Gospel music singles by Friday evening, but the September 2022 album the song came from, Bible Belt Baby, also became number 1 among all of iTunes’ Christian and Gospel music albums, helping Grant make history as the first drag queen ever to do so.

In response, Grant wrote, “Never forget this is all thanks to @seanfeucht.”