Leeds Library hosts Drag Queen Story Hour on June 22nd

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I could weep, I really could.
Leeds City Council is planning a Drag Queen Story Hour with “Aida H Dee”, to take place tomorrow, 22nd June.
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Local hero, Councillor Sarah Field, is requesting any comments or complaints you may have, to assist her in objecting to this event. Email: [email protected]

For Cllr Field

@PelicanDeuce

Cllr Field got it cancelled. She was up most of the night putting a rocket up the people in charge. She’s also put in a FOI request and formal complaint asking for an immediate investigation.

Good. Maybe people are beginning to see through the glitter? Thank god.

@PurpleHoodie

For Cllr Field

I’ll second that!

I just don't understand what people think children will take away from this? A man becomes a lady if he puts on fake boobs and loads of make up? How exactly is that helpful?

If they want to teach boys it's ok to wear stereotypically female clothes then why not give them a dressing up box full of princess dresses and feather boas and glittery beads? It might take a bit of encouragement but it would do far more to bust stereotypes than sitting them in front of a drag act.

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Thank you Cllr Field

@Supergoggles

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Hopefully this link works

here’s a performance from earlier this month. From what I can tell it’s just a mediocre panto dame really, not exactly sure why everyone is falling over themselves to go to these?

I’ve just watched a dance and the first story. What annoys me, as well as everything we’ve already said, is that he doesn’t teach spelling with phonics, which is how the kids learn it. He just adds in “how to spell ‘coat’” and ‘roar’ as random bits to claim it’s ‘educational’. And I think it’s scary for children, especially when his wig starts falling off, or this purported ‘woman’ suddenly speaks with a man’s voice

Who the fuck takes their toddler to these bloody awful things?

I have emailed Leeds Libraries and Sarah Field. It hurts my brain that someone who has a media profile as an adult entertainer is upset that they can’t take this persona to a children’s event.

@QualityFeet

I have emailed Leeds Libraries and Sarah Field. It hurts my brain that someone who has a media profile as an adult entertainer is upset that they can’t take this persona to a children’s event.

This is a great point: why not construct a new persona, especially for ‘children’s entertainment’, if that’s a direction a drag Queen wants to go in?

Someone who is a specialist in children’s entertainment or education dressing up to tell stories I get.

Adult entertainers specialising in sexualised delivery telling children stories - what is the point other than to normalise this form of entertainment. There is just no crossover .

If anyone goes to the facebook twitters instagrams of their local funded booked drag queen for Pride or Drag Queen Story Time I guarantee you will find sexualised obscenities. Please screen shot them and send them to your local council, post them on their threads, maybe let Sonia Poulton know who made this documentary about DQST earlier this year. Goddess.

On this man's facebook page he posts this about himself!!

oops I meant this

This from his "about" page

Two words: pantomime dames.

We all watched Lily Savage on Blankety Blank growing up, didn't do us any harm!

Well done Ms Fields, what a shero! Another example of 'women said no, get over it'.

Well done councillor Field! You star.

There is a world of difference between panto dames who appear in family oriented shows and the current self styled drag queens whose acts and personas are extremely sexualised and not at all suitable for children.

Lily savage was on television, not in the library surrounded by a load of wound up toddlers pressed to his legs.

It is easy to get the attention of excitable small children but what do you do with this adoration?

I mean have parents asked let’s get in drag queens to read stories to toddlers

Jeez it’s last thing on my mind when I go to story time

Would frighten the shit out of my bunch

They should stay in their lane