So taking this at its core: Republicans believe that just being in the same space with a man in a woman’s outfit will totally confuse a child’s mind. Where are all the anti-clown legislations? And speaking of clowns, what about all the clowns that have done story time? Has that led to numerous children having a fear of clowns. Heaven forbid that after seeing Ronald McDonald your child will want to wear an orange wig, orange lipstick, and an orange clown suite. So a man dressed up in a costume is confusing and dangerous to children? Guess that means we’ll have to ban Ronald McDonald, since he’s been known to do these story times. Their bottom line: we’re confusing our children. Republicans are now using drag queens as a cultural political pawn. It has been a successful program.Īnd then came the Republicans. In all that time, now 8 years, there have been problems between drag queens and children. Additionally, individual drag queens around the country connected with their local libraries and asked if they could do their own story hours. That is a noble effort.ĭrag Queen Story Time quickly caught on, and at one point there were 35 organized groups putting libraries and drag queens together. Hence the idea to get kids back into libraries. Another reason was that we needed to get kids back to children’s stories rather than new media and social media. Brittany Lynn doing a Drag Queen Story Time event in July 2022.įacts: drag queen story time was invented in 2015 by a woman named Michelle Tea who felt that story time events at libraries were too heteronormative.
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