Sexualized performances not for kids (NM-Drag queen shows at ABQ Public Library)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | December 30, 2019 | Natasha Chart

[CedarDave]

The Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Public Libraries, like many other public libraries around the country, directly sponsor Drag Queen Story Hours, where male adult entertainers put on nightclub entertainment for children. In library drag performances in states like Washington, children have been pictured rolling around on the performer as he lay on the floor, and in another, a performer put on a strip act that revealed his racy bodysuit.

Many male drag performers have social media accounts that are even more explicit than their performances. If their younger audiences look them up, they may well get an eyeful of age-inappropriate content, much of which portrays women and girls as sexualized objects.

Our organization, the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), representing many lesbian and bisexual women, takes the position that it’s wrong for public libraries to sponsor sexualized adult entertainment as children’s entertainment.

Female exotic dancers, for example, are expected to take every step to prevent even their own children from exposure to their work. Gay male adult entertainers instead now perform their acts for other people’s children, at publicly sponsored events.

Gay men are men like other men, adults like other adults. They should not be exempt from the same reasonable expectations put on any female burlesque performer: don’t put on your act in front of minors.

This has been portrayed as a speech issue. It’s a matter of safeguarding children from early sexualization and exposure to damaging sex stereotypes.

This is why we oppose making public policy based on inaccurate sex stereotypes, and we would ask all public libraries to take the same view. Stop treating gay men like children. Stop treating adult entertainment meant for gay men like children’s programming. Stop exposing children to rainbow-washed, misogynistic stereotypes. It’s offensive to the dignity of everyone involved.

[CedarDave]

The writer of this op-ed piece, Natasha Chart, is Board Chair of the Women’s Liberation Front.

At least some LGBTQ supporters realize that the homosexual agenda has progressed so much into depravity that even they are opposed to exposure to children. Continuing such performances together with the actions of some mentally disturbed adults/parents who believe a young child's sexual identity can be changed though drugs and surgery is not only depraved, it is criminal. The latter is already being challenged by authorities who rightly consider such decisions by children, their parents and some medical persons as child abuse.

[Walrus]

Time to bring back queer beating.

[CedarDave]

Volunteer Drag Queens read to kids on June 15 at the Main Library in Downtown Albuquerque. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)

[CedarDave]

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I’d rather be a contestant in a getting-eaten-by-an-alligator contest.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Perverted sex shows for kids is now politically correct. This is your country on liberalism.

[SpaceBar]

Can’t happen here.

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[olepap]

The gates of hell are open and these creatures have come forth to destroy the spirit of young people

[Admin Moderator]

Don’t eve post that kind of crap again on FR. Got it?

[cdcdawg]

Are there any elected Republicans willing to speak out against this perversion? There has been zero resistance to this stuff. But I guess giving perverts access to children is fine as long as the economy is good or something.

[StAnDeliver]

"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency."

[Savage Beast]

Internal moral rot and decay: The destroyer of civilizations.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...and start beating down parents. CPS needs to have some serious discussions with the parents of these poor, abused little children.

[SkyPilot]

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[HonkyTonkMan]

If they are concerned about literacy, let them start by teaching inmates to read.