After focusing on transgender athletes and youths, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is now targeting drag storytimes, with interruptions and other protests.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Protesters pray outside a library in New York City as Flame, a drag queen sporting a bright wig and a red gown, entertains the children inside by singing the ABCs, leading a coloring activity and reading books about how it's OK to be different.
The reading groups have faced pushback from the beginning, but the recent vitriol is new, said Jonathan Hamilt, executive director of Drag Queen Story Hour and the co-founder of the New York chapter. When the library in San Lorenzo, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco, held its first Drag Queen Story Hour four years ago, people prayed across the street in protest, said Alameda County librarian Cindy Chadwick.
The Alameda County Library, which continues to receive threats, now plans to host a Pride event each month for the rest of the year, Chadwick said, and the sheriff's office will provide security. The event was interrupted by protesters who tried to film children and yelled at their parents, Michele said.
"That would be a bad show of faith if my own kids weren't even there," Michele said."But I mean, it did scare me enough that I had that conversation with myself."
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