on June 22, 2017 in World News
Brooklyn Public Library Hosts ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ ‘Classic tales read by drag queens’
BY: Elizabeth Harrington Follow @LizWFB The Brooklyn Public Library is hosting almost monthly “Drag Queen Story Hour” events that teach “gender fluidity” to preschoolers. “Drag Queen Story Hour puts the rainbow in reading [and] also captures the imagination and play of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models!” according to a listing for an event last weekend posted on the library website. The events began last fall, and are modeled off a program created by Michelle Tea, an “author of five memoirs,” in San Francisco. One of the first story hours in Brooklyn featured the drag queen… View Article
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