Drag Queen Storytime at my local library (photo attached)

[Carla786]

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.

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.

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

homophobic?

mm ok.

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.

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

Update: Mama G is back at the Library and this time in a more overtly LGBT way. I don't think drag is the way to positively represent gay & bi people.

"Happy Pride Month", "Story Time with Mama G" LOL, utterly ridiculous shite. The days of this nonsense are numbered, not appropriate in tax funded public spaces, if he/she wants to do a private venue and ask parents who are interested to bring their children along fair enough, but I don"t want this performative clown in the background when I"m trying to read a Wilbur Smith novel.

What on earth is wrong with this? I swear some people are looking to be offended.

Couldn’t care less, looks fun. Pantomime Dames offend people now ..what fragile creatures

Are you still wanging on about this, OP? Just don’t go, no big deal.

It's an inclusive event for Pride month. Go or do not go. Stop the faux outrage.

Exactly! Totally OTT reaction.

Blast from the past 🙄

Mama G was back at our local library last week. The audience was generally under 2 yo so they had no idea what was going on

This again? Give it up OP. It literally doesn’t affect you in any way. Just don’t go.

But the event is being held in a public library, it is not a ticketed event in a private venue.

So don't go to the library on that day? You've had plenty of warning (heh) about the event.

Does that mean you'd never take your children to a pantomime? Poor kids!

I don't understand why you think this new poster is "more avertly" LGBT friendly?

Today's Drag is nothing like Pantomime; it's misogynistic and disrupts safeguarding for children. Why are you trying to deflect any scrutiny?!

They don't disrupt safeguarding. Never seen a safeguarding referral let alone a 'positive' (ie confirmed harn) s47 investigation about a drag queen. Seen many in relation to CIS men. But I imagine you don't want to let facts get in the way of your prejudices.

That could be because they just jumped straight to the charge and subsequent convictions for child sex offences?

A quick internet search returns the following:

Robert Clothier: A UK-based drag queen known as "Lady James" who was jailed at Southwark Crown Court for arranging sex with individuals he believed were children, as well as possessing indecent images.
Darren Sewell / Darren Meah-Moore: A UK drag artist (performing as "Crystal Couture" and "CC Quinn") who had historic 1999 convictions for the rape of a boy under 16, and a subsequent 2011 conviction for breaching a sex offender's order.
Andrew Way: A UK drag queen sentenced to 34 months at Caernarfon Crown Court after admitting to sending sexual messages to what he believed was a 14-year-old boy and breaching a sexual harm prevention order