Posted on 09/09/2022 8:43:49 AM PDT by viewfromthefrontier
Boise Pride Festival organizers have dropped a Drag Kids event from this weekend’s annual celebration after at least three sponsors announced they were withdrawing support.
Zions Bank withdrew its sponsorship on Wednesday, and on Thursday both Idaho Power and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare followed suit.
In a statement Thursday afternoon, Pride organizers said the decision was made because of safety concerns for the children and their parents.
“The kids who were going to perform have the enthusiastic support of their community and support and consent of their parents,” organizers said in the statement. “We support the kids 1000% and their choice to be themselves, stand their truth and express themselves. They are brave, beautiful and deserve their chance to be in the spotlight, and we want to give that to them at a later date.”
Riley Burrows, co-producer and host of the Drag Kids program, which had been on the schedule for Sunday, said the decision was extremely difficult to make, but security and safety are priorities.
Zions Bank, Idaho Power and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare no longer appear as sponsors on the Boise Pride Festival website. Zions Bank and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare issued statements regarding the decision, as did Idaho Power, which wrote, “Due to programming changes that occurred after our sponsorship and concerns for the safety of our employees and volunteers, we have withdrawn our participation in the Boise Pride event.”
Zions Bank withdrew the same day that new Idaho Republican Party Chair Dorothy Moon released a statement claiming the companies involved were financing the “sexualization of our children,” the Idaho Statesman previously reported. The Idaho GOP, which for years has fought efforts to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to state anti-discrimination law, put out another statement Thursday denouncing Pride’s sponsoring companies.
The director of Health and Welfare, Dave Jeppesen, sent a letter on Thursday to Donald Williamson, Boise Pride Festival director, announcing the department’s decision to withdraw.
“DHW’s sponsorship of Boise Pride 2022 has led to some confusion about whether DHW endorses specific event activities involving minors during this event,” Jeppesen said in the letter. “To avoid any confusion regarding DHW’s support of such activities, DHW is withdrawing both of its Orange Level sponsorships and Project Filter will no longer be supporting a booth at the event this weekend.”
Health and Welfare’s move came despite the department’s long history of participating in the Boise Pride Festival, according to Greg Stahl, a communications officer.
Williamson said Wednesday on Twitter that people opposed to the Drag Kids event were “twisting it into something it is not.”
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean issued a statement about the controversy on Thursday applauding Pride organizers for taking action “to protect everyone who will join in the celebration this weekend.” She also said that “the inflammatory rhetoric of the past few days has put a spotlight on the critical need for our community to have a conversation about standing together in times like these to encourage, embrace and support the diversity and dignity of all people.”
“Safety concerns” my arse. People don’t like your perverted agenda for our kids.
Weren’t they supposed to go away at the end of June?
I’m sure the “safety concerns” were based on the threat of violence from MAGA extremists yah sure you betcha…
Freaking perverts.... I used to be “tolerant” of gays and “live and let live” mentality. Now with all the transgender crap, drag crap and kids being dragged into it I totally despise these perverts. They lost me and I want nothing to do with them and their supporters.
Now when we go out to eat if I see a “gay pride flag” or sticker we won’t go there...why? Because it’s basically an “anti Christian” sentiment.
Good to see they backed out.
Why does any power company. Or any utility company with rates controlled by the state “sponsor”, “give away money” or in any other way donate funds to ANYONE?
AFAIK.. these are monopolies. people that buy their power have little to no ability to shop and source elsewhere.
they are forced to by their power, at what ever rates they demand.
If they have money to spend on non power generating causes, then they should drop their rates to all people.
how can they rationalize holding rates or raising rates IF they have money to give away?
“Safety issues” = cover story for the embarrassment of losing sponsors and having to cancel.
So damn gross.
“As sponsors drop out, Boise Pride Festival drops Drag Kids event over safety concerns”
Any parent that lets their child get involved in this is guilty of child abuse.
“The kids who were going to perform have the enthusiastic support of their community and support and consent of their parents,” organizers said in the statement. “We support the kids 1000% and their choice to be themselves, stand their truth and express themselves. They are brave, beautiful and deserve their chance to be in the spotlight, and we want to give that to them at a later date.”
Nuke from space. It’s the only solution for that place.
After surgeries, people get no sexual satisfaction in their transness.
https://nitter.net/BillboardChris/status/1568167438579302405#m
Parents WANT this for their children?
Corporations do it to endear themselves to bureaucrats and politicians, acting on behalf of fruitcake constituencies, in exchange for preferential legislative treatment.
There’s still hope for Idaho.
How was this even a ‘thought’, per se, in Idaho??
“Winning!”
One battle.
These bastards are relentless, they’ll be back.
The mayor is in full support of the degenerates.
Hard to believe that a staunchly conservative state like Idaho has a flaming liberal woman as mayor of its largest city.
The trend ain’t good.
50 years ago, the mayor would have been arrested for contributing to child porn. Kiddie draw queen is a form of child porn.
Like most states, the population center draws all the libs. IIRC, there was a recall effort not long after she was elected. She was quite a piece of work during COVID.
Interesting that the Mormons were supporting homosexual evagalizing.
Maybe they Mormon Pope is about to get another special revelation. After all, the one running things in the 70s recognized Blacks as full humans after a special revelation and a bit of political pressure.
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