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How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America
The Daily Signal ^ | January 27, 2020 | Mary Margaret Olohan

Posted on 01/27/2020 1:41:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events—aimed at children as young as age 3—have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities.

These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children. The events are designed to be about 45 minutes long for children aged 3 to 8 years old, intended to capture children’s imagination and help children explore their gender fluidity through “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

Books used during Drag Queen Story Hours focus on gender identity and same-sex relationships. At a Jan. 22 Drag Queen Story Hour in Ithaca, New York, drag queens Coraline Chardonnay and Tilia Cordata read the books “Prince and Knight” and “Maiden and Princess,” books created to explore gender through fantasy.

“In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real,” the Drag Queen Story Hour’s website states.

The New York City-based organization did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Queer author Michelle Tea reportedly organized the first Drag Queen Story Hour in San Francisco, California, in 2015. Tea had just given birth to a baby boy and frequently attended library story hours, but said they were “really straight” and did not properly include her queer family.

“There is just a sort of flair with which queers do anything,” she told BuzzFeed News in November 2018. Tea did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s just a certain sense of humor, a sense of the fantastic.”

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1 posted on 01/27/2020 1:41:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Go to your adult hangouts. Leave the kids out of it


2 posted on 01/27/2020 1:43:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A blatant attempt to openly recruit children to homosexual behavior.


3 posted on 01/27/2020 1:45:53 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Good, in-depth article on the history of Drag Queen Story Hour.

PING!


4 posted on 01/27/2020 1:46:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Go to your adult hangouts. Leave the kids out of it”

The national librarian association promotes this.


5 posted on 01/27/2020 1:47:40 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I knew it. Does the article ever get around to the “how?”


6 posted on 01/27/2020 1:49:01 PM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That makes for disgusting reading.

It needs to be seen, but good grief.

They’re openly doing exactly what we thought they were, and parents are buying into it.


7 posted on 01/27/2020 1:49:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: dljordan

I wouldn’t be surprised.


8 posted on 01/27/2020 1:50:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Direct demonic influence of children. Might as well have a goat-head Baphomet type reading to children. The Devil intends to deceive humanity about the very first declaration of God about the human race: “He made them male and female.”


9 posted on 01/27/2020 1:56:56 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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What is wrong these parents?


10 posted on 01/27/2020 2:09:17 PM PST by gibsonguy
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11 posted on 01/27/2020 2:09:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dljordan
Librarians are sisters to the League of Women Vipers Voters
12 posted on 01/27/2020 2:10:27 PM PST by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What would have happened in 1880 if a pervert went to the school and acted like this? How about 1960?

That needs to happen today.

The war is coming. Be prepared.


13 posted on 01/27/2020 2:12:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DoughtyOne

The perverts are doing what should be expected of them.

The sign that is being given to this generation is the sign of Romans 1:18-32.

It isn’t a sign being given to those with depraved minds but to those without depraved minds.

When a canary dies in a coal mine the miners know it is time to flee from where the air is bad. In the same way when you see people not just being perverts but others championing them in society you should recognize that their company, friendship and approval can be dangerous to your spiritual health.


14 posted on 01/27/2020 2:22:39 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: JimRed

It’s one of the most dismaying facts that I have had to face. For a long time, I thought recruitment was a myth. After all, how can you recruit other people to homosexuality when sexuality is supposedly fixed.

Yet here they are, giving children license to “explore” their sexuality, gender-feelings or whatever. Sad and dismaying. It’s a form of child abuse.

Most children grow out of such aberrant feelings and longings, anyhow, so get ‘em while they’re young, I guess.


15 posted on 01/27/2020 2:24:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Rurudyne

I agree with your thoughts.


16 posted on 01/27/2020 2:26:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve been wondering about the drag queen story hour business. There aren’t enough straight women willing to read stories to kids anymore?


17 posted on 01/27/2020 2:27:19 PM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Those books aren’t “exploring gender through fantasy,” but exploring homosexuality.


18 posted on 01/27/2020 2:27:33 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let me guess: because librarians tend to be liberal cat ladies who love to virtue signal and saw it as a chance to do that AND raise money for the library. Kids well-being was not considered.


19 posted on 01/27/2020 2:29:17 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast,

The 1980's best-seller Megatrends turned out to be correct about one thing. California (God help us) is a bellwether state. Whatever trends start there spread to the other 49 states within a few years.


20 posted on 01/27/2020 2:37:54 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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