Now a Texas legislator wants to ban minors from performers in drag, presumably including popular library readings.
and who has a long history of posing as a journalist during protests,
Some of the protesters held signs accusing the bar of “grooming.” This has become a favorite phrase on the far right. This avenue of attack, a right-wing think tank employee who is also largely responsible for launch the anti-“critical race theory” backlash. It’s anti-LGBT messaging builds off the QAnon conspiracy of liberals and leftists as Satanic pedophiles using children in blood-drinking rituals.
It has long been an anti-LGBT tactic to portray any discussion of sexual orientation or gender presentation to children as inherently sexual in nature, painting LGBT people and their supporters as aspiring pedophiles. This has never had any basis in fact, and, there has never been a shred of evidence that LGBT people are pedophiles in higher numbers than the general population.
“My kids are adults now, so drag story time wasn’t a thing when they were that age, but as littles they saw countless performances,” says Houston mom Mandy Trichell. “They grew up with drag just being a presence in their lives.”
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