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NY Atty General Letitia James Joins “Drag Queen” Story Time for Kids Face Off at Greenwich Village LGBTQ Center
Edited by: TJVNews.com
For those who have been assiduously following the woke, progressive culture that has been foisted upon us, by this time, most all familiar with an event known as “Drag Story Hour” where men dressed as women read children stories.
Well, folk, this most controversial of events has come to New York City. The New York Post reported on Sunday that groups of staunch opponents and fierce advocates of this practice gathered at an LGBTQIA center in Manhattan to express their views on what was actually going on inside the building on West 13th Street in Greenwich Village.
Joining the perverse display was New York State Attorney General Letitia James, the Post reported. 100 supporters of the “Drag Queens” who were exposing their lifestyle to young children through story telling assembled and 40 people showed up to express their revulsion over the fact that young children were being influenced by degenerates and sexual deviants.
Keeping the opposing forces at bay were New York Police Department officers and New York City council guards who did some crowd control at the gay and lesbian center. The building on West 13th Street has been refurbished in the last decade but it has been a New York City public school building before being transformed into a center for the LGBTQIA crowd.
Critics of the event were miffed at the fact that “drag queens” were being paid with tax dollars to read stories to young children at various locations throughout New York City, the Post reported.
The New York City taxpayer also unwittingly shelled out big bucks for the City Council’s Sergeant-at-Arms squad, which provided security for at least a half-dozen city lawmakers who showed up for the event, as was reported by the Post.
Councilman Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan) told The Post outside Sunday’s story hour that, “the council security team goes to all these events where the council members go and there’s a chance of someone being hurt.”
Bottcher said that the risk to the security of the council members was of deep concern ad he explained that a council member who funded one of the events has had unwelcome visitors to his home and had his office vandalized, the Post reported. He added that security is “certainly not taking any chances.”
The events in which children are exposed and even groomed for morally reprehensible lifestyles such as those exhibited by the “Drag Queens” are co-sponsored by the nonprofit Drag Story Hour NYC, which has received more than $200,000 in city contracts since 2018, according to records, as was reported by the Post. This has prompted an “outcry” from those opposed to such events and to moral turpitude in general.
Councilman Bottcher said Sunday’s event involved “a couple dozen kids with their families” inside the Greenwich Village center, the Post reported. He added that “Guess what? It was like any other story hour. It just happened to be read by a colorful character in a costume. And the idea that this is going to make kids want to grow up to be drag queens is ludicrous.”
“And the idea that this is going to make kids want to grow up to be drag queens is ludicrous,” he said.
The Post also reported that police said at least one unruly protestor outside was arrested, while a contingent of NYPD motorcycles was seen escorting a reputed member of the right-wing Proud Boys to safety during the demonstration.
The protester who was arrested was described by cops as an “anti-drag story protester who was arrested for assaulting a pro-drag agitator,” the Post reported.
Meanwhile, protesters on both sides of the debate faced off outside the event on Sunday, according to the Post. John McGuigan of New Jersey told the Post, “I’m against kids being exposed to sexually explicit material, to grown men in dresses twerking in front of them showing their breasts, showing off their behinds to little kids and trying to indoctrinate them into trangenderism.” McGuigan said he is gay but is rejected by that community because he holds politically conservative views.
LGBTQ supporters held up a “Stop the Hate” banner and chanted, “We are home!” behind barricades outside the nearby Kaplan Diamond Building, the Post reported.
Michael Henry, 52, of Washington Heights said, “I’m here to actually protect our vulnerable communities — our trans community, our kids. There’s a whole lot of ignorant people in this world.”
“The recent rise in anti-LGBTQ+ protests, rhetoric, and policies has left New Yorkers — myself included — devastated and disappointed,” said Attorney General Letitia James. “But I know better than anyone that when the choice is between love and hate, between joy and venom, New Yorkers will always choose love, and New Yorkers will always choose joy, “ she said, as was reported by the Post.
