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‘Dress up is real:’ Drag queens, public libraries promote gender confusion to 3-year-olds
Life Site News ^ | 22 May 2017 | Lisa Bourne

Posted on 06/02/2017 8:31:30 AM PDT by Lorianne

A program that aims to give young children “unabashedly queer role models” is making its way across the U.S. via various public libraries.

“Who wants to be a drag queen when they grow up?” an adult male dressed in drag asks a group of children at the Brooklyn Public Library during a recent installment of Drag Queen Story Hour.

“Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like — drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores,” the initiative’s website states. “DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.”

DQSH has been conducted at the Brooklyn Public Library in Park Slope since last fall, Christian News reported, with drag queens reading to children on such topics as homosexuality, gender identity and “non-conformity,” and “general youth discomfort.”

The recent Brooklyn session was chronicled on video by the UK media outlet Channel 4 News and shared on social media.

In it, drag queen “Lil Hot Mess” is singing to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus,” and has the children up dancing along with his rendition of “The hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish.”

DQSH has a quote from the Brooklyn Public Library’s Director of Youth and Family Services on its “About” webpage endorsing its program.

“Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun and important program that celebrates diversity in the way that children may dress and act,” Judy Zuckerman states. “It encourages children to look beyond gender stereotypes and embrace unfettered exploration of self. Programs like DQSH encourage acceptance of difference and help to prevent bullying, while providing an enjoyable literary experience.”

DQSH was started in San Francisco by author Michelle Tea, whose writings concern various areas, including queer culture and feminism. Tea also founded RADAR Productions, a platform for emerging queer artists, according to its website information. The San Francisco DQSHs are managed through the organization.

The San Francisco program is part of a broader effort at “Queering the Castro,” or “highlighting the full range of queer culture,” according SFGate.

Besides New York and San Francisco, Drag Queen Story Hours are being held in Los Angeles, and other cities across the U.S., Canada, and the UK, according to its website.

DQSHs are scheduled in New York and San Francisco into June. A New York Times report said they will be expanding this spring and summer into Harlem, another Manhattan location, and to the Bronx.

The DQSH Facebook page also promotes DQSH for additional sites nationwide, stating, “Looking for a Pride activity for your preschool or elementary school? Bring Drag Queen Story Hour to your school this June!”

SNIP


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abnormality; crossdressing; culturalconfusion; depravity; gaystapo; homosexual; sexuality; transexual; transgender; transvestite
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To: Lorianne

Mental illness unchecked


21 posted on 06/02/2017 9:41:45 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Lorianne

I have no idea what, or who, God will use to smite us. He may use our enemies. And I don’t question Him. I do wonder what He’s waiting for.


22 posted on 06/02/2017 9:56:31 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: Lorianne

This is so evil. And parents allow these mentally ill, evil, vile people who defy God and defy Reality and defy Truth to have contact with their children to warp their minds and perceptions of real life.

This is all to normalize irrationality and destroy logic and remove Natural Law (our Constitution) to normalize dysfunction, flip Good and Evil to the pagan, satanic occults, and it is all about child abuse (all warped people have been abused and neglected in early childhood and usually raped.)

For the NWO of “utopia” where all history, traditions, and language is destroyed so that the Marxists can make up their own “history” for total mind control of the masses.


23 posted on 06/02/2017 10:00:19 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: LostInBayport
A Time of Wonder. Couldn't have said it better.

I enjoy listening to my Daughter explain the world to me, the world as she sees it. She seems so naive in many ways (and she is) but before the age of 4, informed my Wife & I, that she "knows who Santa is". Never once has she told another kid what she knows.

This thought came to me whilst reading the article post. How could someone, so cruelly, wish to deform a child with such perversions & lies? This is not about a kindly old Saint, that brings joy, this is twisting & tormenting our very own, preparing them to be victims to the worst depravities.

24 posted on 06/02/2017 10:19:39 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

NAMBLA had a chant;

Sex by Eight,
Or it’s too late!
Recruit,RECRUIT,RECRUIT!


25 posted on 06/02/2017 10:22:47 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Lorianne
filth:


26 posted on 06/02/2017 12:32:04 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: Kid Shelleen

Thanks for the warning. I was just at my library to pick up a few books and there were rainbow “Pride” posters everywhere. Thanks but we will be using the pick up window this week/month/however long this “celebration” lasts.


27 posted on 06/02/2017 2:05:16 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Lorianne

Good ol’ boys are gonna have enough one day, and decide that in unison from some final nasty event.
When that happens, it’ll be fast and furious and very wet.
Keep your powder dry.


28 posted on 06/02/2017 5:09:55 PM PDT by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Freemeorkillme

They mock Normal.


29 posted on 06/02/2017 8:30:11 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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