As some of you may be aware and probably an even larger number of you may not – Facebook recently started forcing Drag Queens to change their personal profile names from their stage names to the legal names. Everyone is all up in arms about it. I've been asked to sign petitions and even participate in a drag queen protest on the Facebook Headquarters. Members of the drag community and some of our allies are calling this "dragphobic" and an assault on the gay community. I'm going to go out on a limb here- and tell you I think drag queens causing a stir over this is, well stupid.

For a very long time Drag was never taken seriously as a legit form of expression, an art medium, a "real" job. Now with the success of popular television shows, Broadway musical, movies and more, drag is finally being seen in a more legit light.

Over the years I can not tell you the number of Drag Queens that I've heard complain about not being taken seriously or not being paid well. Hell, the number of times I've heard queens staring their wishes for a union are far too many to count.

If you want to be taken seriously as a business this is where it starts. As we all know Facebook has two types of pages: Personal Profiles and Fan/Business Pages. With a fan/business page you can name it whatever you want. You can receive messages, tag photos, post statuses, upload photos/video and do Virtually EVERYTHING that a personal page can do – oh and it doesn't limit you to 5,000 friends either.

Its time for the drag community to grow up and realize ourselves that what we do is a legit business and a legit art form. If we want the world to take us seriously as such- we need to start at home. Set up your business LIKE A BUSINESS. This is your golden opportunity. Convert your former personal page to a fan page. You can keep your drag name, keep your vanity url, and yes, keep all your fans/followers. You don't lose any of that. You then have the benefit of separating your personal life with a personal page devoted to who you are off stage and maintain real relationships with the people you know. Trust me, its much healthier in the long run to keep your business and personal lives separate.

I can tell you from my own personal experience – 5 months ago, i converted my personal Mimi page to a fan page and then merged that with my per-existing fan page. I then created a personal page for my non-drag life. I don't add people on my personal page that I don't actually know…people I don't connect with on a regular basis. When I converted everything MIMI related into one fan page- I'll be the first to admit two months it sucked. Facebook has a really stupid algorithm and even though I had 30,000 fans at the time none of my content was being seen cause it was a "new page." However things slowly changed and only grew exponentially. I now have, well A LOT more fans as you can see.

Drag Queens take my advice if you wish. You will be thankful in the long run. Treat your business like a business. This isn't Facebook attacking drag queens. Facebook's policy is across the board. The Owner of Pepsi doesn't have a a personal page Called PEPSI, Pepsi like every other business has a fan page. Celebrities don't have personal pages open to the public – they have fan pages. Its just the way Facebook works. This isn't about you.

If you are TRANS and you go by your stage name or some other name 24/7 I'll be the first one in line with a picket sign to protect that right.

But you know and we all know Facebook enforcing its long time policy isn't about that.

However, to the hundreds of Drag Queens out there complaining: It is time to change how you think about your business and treat our art form with the professionalism it deserves.