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On the evening of July 5, about 30 concerned parents and grandparents showed up at the Sonoma County commissioners meeting held at the Rohnert Park Library. About 20 of us spoke and stated why we were so opposed to their sponsoring and paying for the recent four drag story hours held on Fathers’ Day weekend. The story hours were sponsored and paid for by the Sonoma County Library Commission using our tax dollars to the tune of $500 per hour, thus $2,000 in total. By attending the meeting, we learned that, for the most part, the 10 commissioners agreed that...

ot even RuPaul’s Drag Race is safe from the woke diversity police. A former contestant has called out the long-running show for what he claims to be a lack of gender diversity, saying the series needs to feature “drag kings” — i.e., women who cross-dress as men. Drag queen Victoria Scone said he thinks drag kings would be an invaluable addition in an interview with Digital Spy. “Diversity is always going to be a plus in every sense,” he recently told Digital Spy. “It brings variety to performance as well as the fact that everyone deserves a seat at the...

For one historic Presbyterian church in San Francisco, Isaiah 5:20 is a glaring reality. The verse warns, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness, who exchange bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." By hosting an all-ages "Drag Queen Bible Story Hour," Calvary Presbyterian Church brought blasphemy and shame into the house of God last Sunday. The nearly 200-year-old church's services featured drag performers speaking to audience that included young children. While it was a first for the church, LGBT advocates Rev. Jane Spahr and Rev. Victor Floyd...

Rachel Levine remained optimistic about the LGBTQ+ community’s future in the U.S. at an event about health inequity. During Thursday’s event, hosted by The Washington Post, associate editor Jonathan Capehart and the nation’s assistant secretary for health discussed the recent slew of bills in state legislatures that target the LGBTQ+ community. These bills aimed to ban gender-affirming care, restrict drag performances and encourage the misgendering of children, among other measures. As the highest ranking government official who is openly transgender, Levine said anti-LGBTQ+ bills create obstacles to achieving health equity.

It’s easy for conservatives to think of the LGBT activist crowd as constantly crying wolf over pronouns and “deadnames,” but when self-described “queer” people try to describe who they are and what they do, pay attention. A prime example of this principle occurred just this week: participants in New York City’s annual Pride Parade chanted, “We’re coming for your children.”

Editor’s note: This article includes offensive and explicit content. (This means BARF ALERT) New York City held its 53rd Pride parade Sunday. Here are some of the scenes from that parade and related events shared on social media. 1. ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming for Your Children.’ In a clip that has gone viral on Twitter, marchers at the New York City Drag March, which was held Friday, chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” One holds a sign that says, “Drag isn’t for CISsies.” NYC Drag Marchers chant “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for...

LGBTQ activists have defended a video of drag queens chanting 'we're coming for your children' during a Pride parade in New York City. The video of the incident sparked widespread revulsion online - but prominent allies within the community have now said that it was taken out of context. Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words that were chanted in the city over the weekend by crowds of people, including a topless woman. He told NBC: 'It's all just words. It's all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.' Griffin said he himself...

The Drag March in Manhattan's East Village featured topless women and plenty of drag performers chanting "We're coming for your children." A clip from Timcast of the event, the chanting, and the festivities went viral on social media, infuriating many who value childhood innocence. In response, NBC defended the chant, saying that it was just for fun, and is a way for LGBTQIA+ people to "own" the slurs that have been leveled against them. "We're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children," they sang to each other. NBC asserted that the drag marchers were saying "We're here, we're queer,...

NYC Drag Marchers chant “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children”

It started with the peaceful protest of a “pride” drag show by a children’s theater group during the first-ever Pride Day in a small town near Portland, Ore. It could have ended there but for a brawl between the Proud Boys and the masked bunch who attempted to infiltrate the group on Saturday. The gauzy in-between of it all is being seized upon by politicos such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Eric Swalwell to make their political points. Even Elon Musk wanted to know what was going on. Naturally, because the media and Democrat narrative prevails, the Proud...

Texas Christian University is offering a course on the "Queer Art of Drag," where students will be taught about "drag performance as an outlet for social critique, pedagogy, and queer worldmaking." The course will be taught by Nino Testa, whose preferred pronouns are he/him when going by his name, but when wearing a dress and wig as the drag persona "Maria von Clapp" are she/her. "The gender binary is enforced through compulsory norms, harassment, and violence in service of a white-cis-heteropatriarchy," the syllabus for the spring 2023 course says, adding that "theatricalizing gender" can expand "the possible queer worlds that...

A pair of academics affiliated with York University believe that allowing parents to opt out their children from drag storytime events is a “dangerous setback for 2SLGBTQ+ human rights education.” Writing in the Toronto Star, Beyhan Farhadi, a fellow at York’s Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, and “community educator”/York M.Ed student Joy Henderson say the Toronto School Board’s decision to allow opt-outs from the “family-friendly” activity “sends a message that [queer] rights are debatable.”

LGBTQ activists participating in New York City’s annual Drag March on Friday sparked outrage for chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children” in a Manhattan park. The marchers, many wearing flamboyant dresses and clothing, walked through Tompkins Square Park in the East Village Friday night as part of the city’s Pride Month celebrations. Video of the march shows people laughing and joining in with the cheeky chant — including one dancing topless woman. Others can be heard chanting “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re not going shopping.” The festive marchers continued ended their march at the iconic Stonewall...

A couple of years back, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus decided to stick it right back in the faces of all the parents who were claiming the LGBTQ community was coming for their children — by performing a song called, "We're Coming for Your Children." But not to groom them … rather, to teach them tolerance and acceptance. And how to hook up with adults on Grindr. And the word for when you're having both your testicles sucked by two people at the same time. Here's a link to the video if you can stomach it. On Friday, some...

Drag queens and LGBTQ activists marched through a Manhattan park on Friday as part of a weekend of Pride celebrations, with a chant of: 'We're here, we're queer and we're coming for your children.'

A Federal Court has blocked the implementation of a controversial Florida law banning children from attending drag shows. The law championed and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis faced a legal challenge from Orlando Restaurant Hamburger Mary’s, which has run 'family friendly' drag shows for 15 years. The law can now no longer be enforced until Hamburger Mary finishes litigating its case, after a Federal judge issued a preliminary injunction.

ARLINGTON — A video posted on social media reportedly reveals children attending a Six Flags Over Texas drag show despite the park administrators claiming they would age-restrict the shows for the remainder of June.The video was taken and posted by Six Flags Over Texas employee Lisette Monique Diaz on June 10. According to her Instagram bio, she is a former Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando employee who now works at the Arlington-based amusement park as part of the entertainment leadership team.Before implementing the age requirement, Six Flags labeled their shows “PG.” However, the shows were sexually charged: crossdressing men...

People came to Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco Sunday for a “Drag Queen Bible Story Hour.” Organizers were hoping to provide a different perspective after some of the push back that has occurred around the country around drag performances. Reverend Victor Floyd said it was a first for the church. “We’re hoping to offer a little balance to all of the hateful rhetoric that is out in the country and especially from churches and politicians, who are using churches and using trans people and drag queens as their props,” he said. Floyd added that not everyone supported the church...

Not that this had anything to do with anything, but the Los Angeles Dodgers were humiliated by their archrival this weekend after deciding to host and honor a group of anti-Catholic drag queens at their Pride Night event on Friday. The weekend began as awfully as it ended for the Dodgers. On Friday, the team bestowed the “Community Heroes” award on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag queens who routinely mock the Catholic faith by performing grotesque sexual acts while using religious imagery, garb, and symbolism. Fans barely outnumbered cameramen and security guards as the Dodgers honored...

PETALUMA, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, an event celebrating Pride Month was met with protest. It happened outside a Petaluma library where demonstrators pushed back against Saturday's Drag Story Hour event, which they believe isn't appropriate for children