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Posted on 04/14/2024 7:23:25 PM PDT by lightman
A Drag Queen Story Hour event that was scheduled for later this month at a church in Mountville has been canceled.
Christopher Paolini, who performs as Miss Amie Vanité, said that the decision was made to cancel the event after a news article by another media outlet was posted Saturday incorrectly saying the event was a reschedule of the canceled March Drag Queen Story Hour at the Lancaster Public Library.
“Hate started piling in with comments and shares on social media,” Paolini said.
The church hosting the event, the Vision of Hope Metropolitan Community Church, had posted Saturday on its social media that a story hour was to be held later this month but at no point referred to it as a rescheduling of the March library event. Paolini said the Mountville event was a rescheduling of a canceled Story Hour Tea Party scheduled for April 13 in York County. Efforts to reach someone at Vision of Hope were unsuccessful.
Paolini said Sunday afternoon the tea party event is officially canceled as well now.
“The media frenzy isn’t helping anything,” Paolini said. “It just keeps stirring the pot and is causing more harm than good from the hatred and slander being spewed at me and the LGBTQ+ community.”
The emotional and financial toll of the past month is wearing on Paolini, he said. While he does pick up other jobs such as bartending, his main career is working as a performer.
“Having to keep canceling my events and calling off regular work for media requests or my own mental health is financially devastating,” Paolini said. “My career and reputation as a performer are in jeopardy; which is also causing me anxiety over how I’m making up for these extra funds being lost due to cancellations.”
Paolini said that the hateful messages have had a domino effect that has also forced entertainers associated with him to cancel events over safety concerns.
The March event at the Lancaster Public Library was canceled after a suspicious package was found at the library the morning of the event. Later that day, individual staff members of the library, Lancaster Pride and LNP | LancasterOnline were subject to bomb and death threats that remain under investigation. Paolini was not individually targeted in the threats received that day.
“I’m incredibly frustrated,” Paolini said. “I’m emotionally and physically drained from the lack of sleep over the course of this last month; and I’m also scared for everyone involved in helping me navigate and reorganize events to get this programming to people who want and support it – because they don’t deserve any of this hatred directed at them at all.”
That was a few weeks ago. Afterward, at least two municipalities--one of them Mountville Borough--voted to defund the library.
I suspect the event at the MCC was planned as an "in your face" against the defunding proponents.
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“ Paolini said. “My career and reputation as a performer are in jeopardy; which is also causing me anxiety over how I’m making up for these extra funds being lost due to cancellations.”
Drama queen.
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Christopher Paolini, of Berks County, recalls some of his favorite classes during his time in high school during an interview inside Prince Street Cafe in Lancaster City on Friday, March. 22, 2024. Paolini, performing as “Miss Amie Vanité”, [was] set to host a Drag Queen Story Hour at the Lancaster Public Library on Saturday, March. 23, 2024.
Maybe he should try Drag Queen Koran reading
It’s troubling that a church was knowingly and willingly fine with inviting a Drag performance inside of their church.
Maybe the church was planning to lightly skim any profits from ticket sales.
What a sweat hog.
Metropolitan "church." Code word for a gay or gay friendly church.
I thought it read DRAMA Queen
“Metropolitan church?” Faggotry is afoot?
A gay or gay friendly church should be called an, “Abomination Church!”
The gays are forcing their way into normal life. Our letting them into normal society is weakening our nation as much as Obama’s controlling the Biden disaster of feckless leadership
lots of demon infested false churches pretending to be Christian- but their actions speak louder than words-
MCC is a homosexual denomination.
LOL! That would be a hoot to watch. Talk about emotionally and physically. ROTFL!
Drama Queen
It’s not as personal as it seems.
Most of us would object to a female stripper doing ‘story hour’ with our kids too. Let’s leave the kink things to adults. And for God’s sake the drag community needs to get over the drama. They would NOT like it if we brought Bible groups into their nightclubs and forced ourselves on their communities and we feel the same about them forcing themselves on our families and OUR communities. It’s tacky.
Again, same with a heterosexual strippers. Leave the kids alone and don’t push yourselves on people who don’t want your company. We’ll do the same.
For those who may be calculating the angle of the slippery slope our country is on, a church in Pennsylvania USA was planning to host a Drag Queen Story Hour.
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