Brinton, an MIT grad, used to conduct a workshop called 'Kink 101' on college campuses and worked as an 'anti-conversion therapy activist'. He is also a member of a drag queen society called 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' which mocks catholic nuns with sexually explicit innuendoes.
Kerala Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) general secretary in charge, PMA Salam has claimed that it is dangerous to allow boys and girls to sit together in school classes
The play 'I, Joan' is meant to reinterpret the character of the saint from a non-binary perspective, a view strongly defended by its writer Charline Josephine.