The Kinsey Sicks will finally appear on this week's "America's Got Talent" ... in a montage

At the beginning of the month, I was pretty excited to hear that drag group The Kinsey Sicks were going to be appearing on America's Got Talent. It was starting to look like a surprisingly gay-inclusive season for NBC's biggest summer hit, as the show had given us a gay country dance troupe, The DC Cowboys, and Derrick Barry, a Britney Spears-impersonator who wasn't played for laughs.

The Kinsey Sicks had been prominent in ads for America's Got Talent and it looked like the show might finally be treating drag contestants a little more fairly. (America's Got Talent also gave a positive showing to Dorae Saunders, a transgender Tina Turner impersonator, later in the season.)

But as many of you noticed, the Kinsey Sicks were missing from the episode and weren't in any episodes to later air this season. According to GLAAD, they'll finally be appearing on this week's episode ... as part of a montage.

Leonid the Magnificent and Boy Britney from last season

That's pretty frustrating, and not just because I was misled into encouraging people to actually watch America's Got Talent, but because the show already has a pretty bad history with gay or gay-adjacent acts. The first two seasons mined comedy out of Leonid the Magnificent and the second season also pushed Boy Britney (an overweight, midriff-baring, uncoordinated Britney Spears-impersonator) into the finals so that the audience would have a freak to laugh at.

While a part of me can admire the spirit of these performers and their daring to face an audience with a really bad act, they were the only openly gay or drag performers for two seasons, making drag acts entirely a joke for America's Got Talent. With that history, it's a real shame that an act like The Kinsey Sicks won't get more than a few seconds of screen time (if it's anything like past montage segments).