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I’ve never heard of them until someone brought them up on reddit the other day.
Seems just as stupid as child beauty pageants to me.
There aren’t drag shows for kids. There are kids activities that involve drag queens. This isn’t common at all. Does it happen, sure, somewhere, but you’ll have a hard time finding such a thing in the vast majority of the country.
Never heard of it and I Live in a large city with a significant lgbt population
There are reasons some got canceled when they were told they couldn’t sexually dance in front of kids…
There are some libraries that will have a drag queen in a family friendly costume read books to kids in their drag persona, the same way you’d have an actor or clown do storytime with children. It’s not very common, but many places find that kids like having a colorful costumed person at storytime.
It isn’t widely accpeted.
There have been events marketed as kid friendly drag shows. And drag shows with explicit sexual themes that allow kids to attend.
They aren’t extremely common, but kids should not be allowed to attend them.
There’s a lot of misconceptions that are exaggerated for political purposes.
There aren’t “drag shows for kids”.
What actually happened was a few libraries in the US were holding “drag queen story hour” events where a drag performer would hold a public reading of a children’s book, typically while dressed as a character from that book (a princess in a fairy tale, for example).
Conservatives, who are famously homophobic and transphobic, became enraged. They associate all drag performances with sex work, and falsely assumed these events were some kind of sex act being performed for children to watch.
Reactionary armed groups started to show up to these events to object while brandishing guns, and state legislatures began to pass laws prohibiting children from being at any “drag” performance of any kind, all while screaming about how they’re protecting children from being corrupted.
This is one of those things that I literally never heard of being a thing until people on the internet started getting mad about it.
The terminally online varieties of both sides seem to be far more invested in it than anyone else. I think conservatives are being ridiculous about it being somehow harmful to kids to have a drag Queen read cat in the hat to them, but I also think progressives need to understand that organizing “drag Queen story time” events is not the way you endear yourself to middle America.
Kids don’t care about it one way or the other. Acting like you genuinely believe it will psychologically warp them is disingenuous at best, but I’m also pretty skeptical that there was much of a demand for that sort of activity in the first place.
A year or two ago it was never a thing that you ever heard about.
Coming from a childhood where my father was gay and heavily involved in a fundraising organization that put on drag shows to raise money, I can say drag events with kids in attendance did happen, being a kid at a drag event, but I had never heard of a drag event targeted at children.
That is, until somewhere down the line, one event got enough media attention that the right caught wind of it and blew it out of proportion. As a reaction to that, the left continued their own play book of pushing absurd things just because it annoys the right, and started actually making drag events for kids because they knew the right would get all up in arms about it.
In the end, from both sides, its all political performance art.
There are some very rare shows where children will dress up in drag (boys dress as girls and girls dress as boys) and they’ll have a beauty pageant. I have only seen these on the news or on like a TLC show so take this with several grains of salt.
The other, more common thing I’ve seen is drag storytime for kids. A library or similar business will hire a drag show queen to wear their costume and read stories for children. As far as I have seen, it’s always been age appropriate, and basically it’s more of an unnecessarily gender-specific clown than a classic drag queen. These are controversial because of the general dislike of LGBT individuals by the political right. I personally don’t love the idea of drag storytime because the general connotation with drag queens is generally lewd, and it feels unnecessarily gender- politicky. If you go to a drag queen bingo show, the expectation is usually kind of a lewd/crude humor and the queens are generally sexual.
A lot of other people have mentioned “Drag Queen Story Hour”.
Some venues that feature drag performers would also have shows that were open to all ages and had more family friendly content than they have at their adult only shows. They aren’t performances that are specifically aimed at children but people were free to bring their kids to them.
Every drag show I’ve ever attended checked ID. Are you talking about drag queens reading to children to normalize gender fluidity because that’s different.
This isn’t common or accepted.
There have been isolated incidents, and the extremists on each side latch on to them. The far right clamors on about them being bad and associates anything involving a trans person with these horrific events, the far left says there is nothing wrong and calls anyone who is against them a transphobe.
The vast majority of us left or right see that it is not so cut and dry and you can be against sexualized acts involving minors and for trans persons rights to have a normal life with the same rights as the rest of us at the same time.
absolutely not a common occurrence.
I live in NYC and used to live near Provincetown MA, and I haven’t heard so much about it as I have in the last year.
Honestly… enough. It turned up as a topic of discussion in *defense hearings. Enough.*
this happens occasionally(i think) in the most liberal and affluent suburbs and cities, but it’s unheard of anywhere else. any library in my state would be closed if they so much as discussed it. Imao it’s a boogeyman by right wing instigators
I’ve never once seen or heard of one in reality (then again I’ve never seen a standard drag show advertised); it is primarily a mirage, a phantom, made up to terrorize people into being afraid of drag shows in general. The handful of actual events are, in order of likelihood:
– Libraries having a drag queen host a reading hour
– Drag shows set up in ways that are family friendly so kids can attend with parents
– A drag show in an outdoor public place that kids happen to show up at
– Someone striking oil in their backyard
– Someone having ‘Blue ice’ from an airplane lavatory hit them in the head.
– A meteor flattening a car
– Someone somewhere claiming to have a family friendly event, and then pushing the envelope to deliberately piss people off
Drag shows for kids specifically I imagine are a rare occurence, but they certainly have happened. There has been a trend of introducing and exposing children to drag and drag performers in various ways. I find it to be really offputting and odd.
And to whoever wants to make a comment about child beauty pageants, I dont like those either.
Drag queen shows are bad but taking kids to concerts to see adult women singing about sex and dancing provocatively is somehow ok lmaooo
It’s right wing pearl clutching tbh.
They have no real policies since Trump so now everything is just culture war bullshit 24/7
* Drag = performance of gender, meaning an individual does some kind of performance with an added characteristic of extreme gender expression of some kind, often using current stereotypes or social norms established by the community or society the performer lives in.
* Queen = the gender expression of the performer is hyper-feminine.
* King = the gender expression of the performer is hyper-masculine.
* What kind of performance could they do? Anything. Dancing, singing, comedy, hosting events, could be adult themed, or family friendly, activism, or some people just like to dress in drag for fun or as a hobby.
* Drag is NOT by default sexual, or adult themed. That is something a performer would have to willingly choose to add or include into their performance on their own.
* **One such type of performance, or activity a drag performer could do is reading stories to kids.** Some call it a drag hour, or drag story hour, or something like that. A drag performer will dress in drag and read a children’s book to kids. Sometimes their expression is just their general drag character or persona, or it could be a character from the book even. One of the reasons some places have held these kind of experiences is to teach children that how they choose to express themselves is accepted and welcomed…that they shouldn’t feel bound or restricted by their gender as to how they express themselves.
* This is in the news now, because people who don’t understand drag believe propaganda that drag is the “gay agenda” or “liberal agenda” grooming and indoctrinating their kids to be sexual deviants. The people screaming about it therefore are pulling any mental gymnastics they can to twist the purpose of drag into a definition that is by default sexual and predatory towards children.
* Overall, drag story hours were not very common, but they have been growing in popularity. This extreme outrage by the far-right is only going to make them more popular in reality.
The issue is exaggerated for political purposes on both sides.
They have had a couple at my local library. A guy dressed as a woman read kids stories. We didn’t go to either just because of timing. The first guy was pretty modestly dressed but the second guy was a bit more risqué and flashy.
These aren’t “drag shows” and as far as I know the content is never sexual in nature. I hesitate to say never just because I suspect there may be an example or two where it was but that is absolutely not the norm.
Drag story hour isn’t sexual at all. It’s no biggie. It’s just people in outlandish outfits reading books.
It depends on where you are. If you are in a liberal area then people just eat it up and they feel super virtuous taking their kids and posting instagram photos of how cultured they are.
In other areas it’s considered inappropriate sexual material. Or grooming kids for an ideology.
I honestly never heard of this until right-wing weirdos started talking about it. I’ve been to a decent amount of drag shows and like 99% of them were in clubs that required you to be at LEAST 18 years old, if not 21. The exception is maybe like, pride parades or something.
I honestly think it’s weird as fuck. What is the need for “drag queen story hour”, and would anyone take their kid to it?