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Drag Queen Storytime at my local library (photo attached)

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Carla786 · 03/02/2026 18:59

I had a lovely trip to my local library yesterday. Spent a long time there choosing books, basically the whole time there was a very noisy toddler event going on in the next room. I didn't mind, they host a lot of stuff for various people & that's good.

As I left, I looked at the posters of various things they were advertising. I saw one for 'Mama G', clearly a drag queen, which I photographed for identification purposes. I thought this nonsense of drag story hours might be quietening down, but clearly not at my library. I'd never seen them advertise anything like that before 🤦‍♀️

Checking the photo when I got home, I saw the event had taken place that day, while I was choosing my books. I wasn't listening particularly hard, but from what I heard it sounded more like a 'panto dame' style event than anything sexualised. It still seems odd and inadvisable though. If a drag Queen wants to do panto style entertainment for kids too, he should have a separate line in that, rather than mixing it up. 'Drag queen shows ' are by nature sexual and adult, so 'drag queen' shows blur boundaries whatever the content/intention.

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Bertiebiscuit · 24/02/2026 12:41

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changedusernameforthis1 · 24/02/2026 12:54

Depends what was being read to the kids.

Was it Winnie the Pooh or pre-2015 page 3 of The Sun newspaper?

JustSomeWaferThinHam · 24/02/2026 16:43

changedusernameforthis1 · 24/02/2026 12:54

Depends what was being read to the kids.

Was it Winnie the Pooh or pre-2015 page 3 of The Sun newspaper?

They often read books that promote gender ideology.

Stonewall is a promoter/funder of DQST as it fits with their stated target to promote gender ideology to children from age 2. They started targeting nurseries.

JustSomeWaferThinHam · 24/02/2026 16:48

IrisieMendimeve · 23/02/2026 22:04

it happens when you’re a closet homophobe :)

Eh? So the lesbians and gay men of LGB Alliance who object to DQST are….

homophobic?

mm ok.

SpringTimeIsRingTime · 24/02/2026 19:38

JHound · 24/02/2026 12:20

Definitely a homophobe but not closeted.

Children are no more forced to be read to by Drag Queens as they are forced to be Performed to by Drag Queens at Panto.

Britain trying to import this particularly aspect of US culture wars is nonsensical given our history of pantomime.

Panto Dames and Drag Queens reading to kids - the exact same goddamn thing.

Drag Queens and Panto Dames are both men parodying women which is inherently misogynistic which is why those who support it resort to calling those who denounce it "homophobic" even when the men in drag are straight.

darkchocolatebounty · 24/02/2026 19:48

Bertiebiscuit · 24/02/2026 12:28

My local library did something similar a while ago. I emailed them to express my view that "drag" is not appropriate for children and public money should not be wasted on stuff like this when libraries are struggling to stay open. I got no response from them. So i don't use that library any more. I think it's gross tbh, i hate "woman face", it's insulting to women. Libraries should not waste taxpayers money on garbage like that. They wouldn't put on shows featuring white people pretending to be Black, which amounts to the same thing. Misogyny just doesn't ever seem to be considered by these bandwagon jumping wokies.

I can’t imagine you went to the library very much, so they’re unlikely to miss you.

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