Drag Queen Story Time at the British Library

Why get a drag act in to read a story if they aren’t going to do an act? So they are going to say ‘hi kids, my name is Joe Bloggs and I’m going to read The Cat in the Hat...’

The DQ aren’t performing their act, their reading a story.

As for the person likening this to pole dancers reading to kids, they maybe already do. They could be your kids teacher, nurse, dance instructor.

Ah Yes, all the times my kids pole dancing teacher took their act into the classroom....

Surely you get doing something in your own time and doing something around children is different?

If the event is being advertised then surely the only parents who will show up are those who don’t mind?

Those who disagree with it or don’t think it appropriate simply won’t attend.

As for the person likening this to pole dancers reading to kids, they maybe already do. They could be your kids teacher, nurse, dance instructor.

This library decided they needed to introduce a dress code after this drag queen repeatedly exposed his* crotch (drag queens don't identify as women, so I'm using male pronouns) to children he was reading to: www.theblaze.com/news/photo-shows-drag-queen-story-hour-performer-in-miniskirt-exposing-crotch-as-children-sit-close-by

I still don't get what the point of this is. What is the benefit to children?

I worked for a well known Gallery until a few years ago and felt under pressure to programme these type of family events. I resisted as I thought they weren't appropriate but never felt comfortable giving my reasons as it was a very woke department

And for a few Smarties, your own personal table story time.

Don't leave out the BDSM story time.

As for how they'd do My Little Pony, well I'm sure theres a fetish to cover it.

Sounds great.

I think it’s fine.

Ideally we’d want Pole Dance Story Time or perhaps Burleque Story Time but I’ll be working on those suggestions in my rural village.

That was in yesterday's Telegraph

Oh and here's 'Drag Dad' and his daughter.
Not sure if The Telegraph got bored of the column in which a father talks of transitioning 'journey'

www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/took-kids-gay-bar-peckham-welcome-strange-world-drag-dad/

As aside, there was a massive 2 page splash in my local paper last year when a drag queen came to speak. It was odd as you cant normally get any stories crowbarred in

Actually @ definitelygc that’s a smart comment. Doesn't drag also ridicule and humiliate trans women?

Why would it be a gay thing? Surely gay people are simply people who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex so why would
gay men want to present as a caricature of women (perhaps making money as entertainers in clubs but not elsewhere).

Not a representation of a woman though is it? Bet Lynch x 1000!

Linking this thread, which was started after a thread on drag was removed when posters expressed concerns over child safeguarding.
There are links to other family drag events....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3810196-Sigh-Trying-again-MNHQ-what-are-we-allowed-to-say-about-safeguarding

I guess drag has often been associated with gay male culture. That doesn't mean all gay men like drag and it certainly doesn't mean it has anything to do with lesbian or bisexual women. I'm pretty sure a lot of trans people also have a problem with drag as they see it as making fun of them. This whole thing just shows the extent to which men have completely taken over the narrative around LGBT. It's almost as if lesbians don't even exist apart from to satisfy straight male fantasies.

I fail to see what drag has to do with LGBT or any other group. Are Transexuals really saying that these caricatures are how they see themselves as women? Theres a difference between wanting to live as a woman and wanting to live as a fetish caricature.

I've just put "Shay Shay drag queen" into Google image search and the first thing that comes up is a photo of him "seductively" eating an ice cream in the shape of penis. What. The. Fuck. In what universe is this appropriate for children?

Cripes wtaf is going on with all the drag queens reading stories to kids

Why is that a thing. Now

Is there an agency putting out pr stuff

It’s just weird.

I thought drag queens were forvadults in clubs and pubs not libraries

I don't understand it. One of the most highly regarded libraries in the world doing this?!

What are children suppose to learn from this?

Wait until they're adults FFS

I've not been able to find out who the BLM is paying to read to children wyhile dressed as a pronographic caricature of a woman. But I have discovered that the National gallery is also putting on a DQST, on their Rainbow Family Day (IDK either!) on 20th February:
"Join Drag Queen performer Topsie Redfern, who’ll be bringing glam, wit and joy to a story time session in the Gallery. Particularly suitable for under 5s."
And there's more! The National Maritime Museum is putting on an Out at Sea Family Day which also includes a DQST session and "deep sea dancing with the spectacular drag queen Shay Shay"!! www.rmg.co.uk/see-do/exhibitions-events/out-at-sea

who is the 'turn'?

The thing is, why this? If you want to have Mr Tumble along dressed as Aunt Polly (and other characters) to show that men can wear dresses too, fine as far as I'm concerned. But drag queens wearing clothes no woman would EVER enter a library wearing? It's just so unbelievably inappropriate and weird. It's sexualising children and it's wrong.