Drag Queen Story Hour Has Met Its Match: Parents Are Fighting Back
Big League Politics
Parents and grandparents are joining forces to reclaim America’s public libraries.
If you haven’t heard about “See You at the Library Day” on Fox News or Newsmax or your other favorite news sources, please let me tell you why it’s so critical.
Back when you were growing up, you may remember lazy Saturdays at the library with a kind but stern librarian.
She would fill your mind with classics like Pat the Bunny and The Little Engine That Could. And eventually you got old enough to roam by yourself and discover adventures like the Three Musketeers, Treasure Island and Charlotte’s Web.
But today, all that has changed.
Instead of filling children with wholesome stories, the president of the American Library Association (ALA) says libraries should be used to address ‘systemic racism’ and elevate ‘BIPOC and GLBTQR+ writers and voices.’
Radical librarians call Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird “racist.” They’ve stripped Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a prestigious book award because of her “problematic’ Little House series.
And they bring in men wearing full makeup, dresses, and high heels for “Drag Queen Story Hours” where books like these are read to children of all ages…
A is for Activist. An ABC board book for “families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for.”
Woke Baby. “For all the littlest progressives, waking up to seize a new day of justice and activism. Woke babies raise their fists in the air. Woke babies cry out for justice. Woke babies grow up to change the world.”
Prince and Knight. The “premier queer-friendly fairy tale” about a prince who marries a knight instead of a princess.
And The Hips on the Drag Queens Go Swish, Swish, Swish. A “family-friendly celebration of drag” that encourages children to “work it.”
I wish I could tell you this was only happening in places like New York City and San Francisco…
…but that’s just not true.