Outside Chicago, protesters harass parents attending storytime with their children and proclaim that the staff operating the event came “from the devil.”Īnd in a San Francisco suburb, men invade Panda Dulce’s reading at a library’s Drag Queen Story Hour, shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs.Īfter focusing on transgender athletes and youths, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is now targeting drag storytimes - conceived as a way to educate and entertain children by appealing to their imaginations - with interruptions and other protests reported across the country in the past two weeks, since Pride Month began. 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.
