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The Real Purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour
American Thinker ^ | 21 Jan, 2023 | Charlotte Cushman

Posted on 01/21/2023 4:35:56 AM PST by MtnClimber

It's not about "education" or "tolerance," and it's not benign.

Those who have voiced concerns about the dangers that drag events, such as Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), pose for children (namely, sexualization and grooming) have been told that those concerns are baseless, that the events are harmless, that it is all just entertainment and fun, and that attending drag events is a way to understand the gay culture.

On January 25, 2021 an academic paper entitled Drag Pedagogy: the Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood," was published online in Curriculum Inquiry, an educational journal. The paper, recently called out by James Lindsay here and here and also by Christopher Rufo here, was written by Harper Keenen and Lil Miss Hot Mess (a founder of DQSH), who describe themselves as "a genderqueer drag performer/scholar and a trans scholar" (p.443).

Right off the bat, the abstract tells us the purpose of DQSH:

Ultimately, the authors propose that "drag pedagogy" provides a performative approach to queer pedagogy that is not simply about LGBT lives, but living queerly. (p. 440)

Then the authors state,

Through this programme, drag artists ... [are] positioning queer and trans cultural forms as valuable components of early childhood education. We are guided by the following question: what might Drag Queen Story Hour offer educators as a way of bringing queer ways of knowing and being into the education of young children?

The purpose of DQSH is not entertainment, nor to understand gay culture. The purpose is to turn children "queer" through an educational process.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; dqsh; groomers; grooming; homosexualagenda; moraldegradation; perverts; predators; sexcriminals
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To: metmom

Disgusting!!

And, PURE evil.


21 posted on 01/21/2023 7:24:30 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: jacknhoo

“democratic-ukraine-must-include-all-lgbtq-people”

Still BLOWS MY MIND how some here can STILL support Ukraine, when that forsaken country is against everything this site stands for...makes me wonder as to who they really are.


22 posted on 01/21/2023 7:43:47 AM PST by BobL
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To: MtnClimber
Italian Trulli
23 posted on 01/21/2023 8:30:20 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The sin of corrupting children is especially hateful to Him and is expressly singled out for an exceptionally severe judgment.

Prov. 6; Matt. 18:6 and Luke 17:2


24 posted on 01/21/2023 8:58:36 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: metmom

This push to sexualize innocent young children is Satanic.

Anyone who supports it is a pervert and a groomer.

Parents who expose their babies to this degradation should lose custody of their children.


25 posted on 01/21/2023 11:17:58 AM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: metmom

Yep, His judgment has begun.

Romans:
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.


26 posted on 01/21/2023 11:32:33 AM PST by StayoutdaBushesWay (Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding)
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To: MtnClimber

See my tagline for the REAL REASON.


27 posted on 01/21/2023 11:33:38 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: MtnClimber
The author accurately invokes Marcuse as the source of this celebration of the transgressive, and some of the antics of his buddies in the Frankfurt School - Wilhelm Reich and his hypersexual Orgone Energy scam are a case in point - are right in line with the overall drive to undermine society by attacking its norms. Extending that to an attack on capitalism is ridiculous on its face - sex sells, and "forbidden" sex sells at a premium. That was always a rationalism anyway - the somewhat cynical conclusion that it's more a case of perverts looking out for their own enjoyment turns out to be true, and wrapping the thing in such high-toned academic pretensions as Queer Theory is laughably thin cover.

Drag Queen Story Hour is, as its critics insist, a recruiting tool and an avenue for access to children that its proponents would not normally (there's that word again) enjoy, as the honest among those proponents will occasionally admit. It isn't a drive for acceptance, it's a drive for participation. Preaching to the choir here, I suppose.

28 posted on 01/21/2023 11:45:50 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay

Yup, we definitely see the giving them over stage happening before our eyes.

Hard to tell what’s next on the docket, though.


29 posted on 01/21/2023 12:19:02 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Billthedrill

I agree. Drag Queen Story Hour is not just crazy people, it is a highly organized effort to destroy the norms of society and to use people in positions of authority to warp the values of children. What the parents of these children are thinking completely escapes me. They have no concept of the continuity of their genetics. They have been virtue signaled into accepting dead-ender ideology.


30 posted on 01/21/2023 12:34:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

What the parents of these children are thinking completely escapes me.

/\

Not me.

They are thinking of pedos ugly sibling

Incest.


31 posted on 01/21/2023 1:04:09 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay

Thank you for postzing that.


32 posted on 01/21/2023 11:44:18 PM PST by Grenada
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