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Parents Furious over Pole Dancer at ‘Family-Friendly’ Colorado State Fair
Todd Starnes/KWAM ^ | 1 September 2025 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/02/2025 9:06:01 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

Parents want to know who was responsible for installing a stripper pole at the family-friendly Colorado State Fair. Click here to see the video. It shows an obese woman writhing on the pole as stunned spectators watched in either disbelief or horror.

Organisers of the state fair released a statement to television station KRDO explaining that a third-party vendor had booked the plus-sized performance.

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“The events that took place Friday, August 29, on one of our free entertainment stages at the Colorado State Fairgrounds are unfortunate and do not reflect the Fair’s commitment to family-friendly entertainment.

This was part of a series of performances booked by a third-party stage production vendor. The performance’s content was not transparently disclosed before the performance began.

However, the Colorado State Fair takes full responsibility for the performance and for allowing it to continue. We apologise to all who have been impacted.” -----------

Peacock Pole Art, which advertises itself as Southern Colorado’s premier pole dancing studio, defended the performance and said it was entirely family-friendly.

“I want to clarify that our performers at the Colorado State Fair was part of an artistic, athletic, and fully age-appropriate pole performance. Pole is often misunderstood, but it is a legitimate sport and art form—recognized worldwide—with strength, flexibility, musicality, and storytelling at its core,” the studio wrote in a statement.

“We take great pride in curating routines that are empowering, tasteful, and suitable for a family-friendly audience. This was not a nightclub act, nor was it intended to be ‘inappropriate,” the studio wrote in a statement. “It was a celebration of movement, creativity, and culture—just like the other dance and acrobatic acts at the fair.”

And many online observers saluted the plus-sized dancer’s technique.

“Folks are commenting on how strong the pole must be,” said one woman. “I’m coming on here to comment how strong she is: Physically strong, mentally and emotionally strong. Wow!”

Another wrote: “She, herself, would have to be at least twice as strong as the average pole dancer. She pulled it off well for her weight. It is odd to be at a state fair, but least it was done tastefully, not X rated.”

Many of our readers, however, commended the red-blooded American steelworkers who crafted the stripper pole.

“I don’t know which is stronger, that weld or her confidence,” one observer noted.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: aerialperformances; colorado; statefair

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To: BenLurkin

When they let her out of prison ... Taboo Gentlemens’ Club has a place for her.


21 posted on 09/02/2025 9:18:55 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BenLurkin

Sadly.


22 posted on 09/02/2025 9:18:58 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: gundog

Yes, the very thought now is the crime


23 posted on 09/02/2025 9:19:10 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
Depends on your point of view, I suppose. Turn your head to one side and look again.

If the pole was horizontal instead of vertical, then that's not pole dancing, it's gymnastics - something moms sign up their kids for all over. Family friendly!

24 posted on 09/02/2025 9:19:47 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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To: ZOOKER

Get used to it my friends.


25 posted on 09/02/2025 9:20:48 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Yup, Colorado going “true DemocRAT”.
Time to move.


26 posted on 09/02/2025 9:23:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

It does not belong. Period.


27 posted on 09/02/2025 9:24:47 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Why are the parents furious, or even surprised? They know what state they are in.


28 posted on 09/02/2025 9:25:36 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Pedophiles all of them.


29 posted on 09/02/2025 9:25:57 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

In related news, State Fair food truck sales were up over 38% with many unexpected repeat customers citing “inadvertent Bulimia” as the reason.


30 posted on 09/02/2025 9:26:34 AM PDT by 70times7
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

We had strippers, except for the swim suit bottom and the pasties at the Texas State Fair in the 70s.


31 posted on 09/02/2025 9:27:26 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

I don’t want to watch the video, but apparently, she was she, not a trannie male.


32 posted on 09/02/2025 9:27:49 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: gundog
Would it be too cold for a Lap dance?


33 posted on 09/02/2025 9:32:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NorthMountain

it’s a secret... CLICK THE LINK.... Muahahahaha :)


34 posted on 09/02/2025 9:35:57 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Tommy Revolts

it mighta been what caused the recent earthquake


35 posted on 09/02/2025 9:36:48 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: gundog
I think that throwing corndogs at fat people is now considered a hate-crime in CO.

Not if the evidence is consumed before the "Law & Order: +Sized Victims Unit" collects it.

36 posted on 09/02/2025 9:36:50 AM PDT by 70times7
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To: NorthMountain

Thanks for “taking one for the team” and saving us from mental trauma.


37 posted on 09/02/2025 9:52:59 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (Political insight on loan from Rush Limbaugh)
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To: gundog

The left wants your kids. They have insatiable perverse desires to fulfill.


38 posted on 09/02/2025 10:07:13 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: 70times7

Isn’t Nelly Furtado scheduled to appear there?


39 posted on 09/02/2025 10:09:13 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: gundog; Cowgirl of Justice
I think that throwing corndogs at fat people is now considered a hate-crime in CO.

Yep, we can’t be too careful these days. Some guy in NYC is cooling his jets in the clink now because he hummed a Subway foot-long sandwich at a Fed.

40 posted on 09/02/2025 10:13:58 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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