Barbada de Barbades, the drag personification of elementary school teacher Sebastien Potvin, spoke with True North about the “family friendly” concept and the controversies surrounding it.
Potvin has been performing drag queen story hours in libraries, bookstores and daycares since 2016. His website states that the activity is meant for kids 3 to 6 years old, but younger children are also welcome.
The supposed family-centered Calgary Stampede, which dubs itself as the “Greatest outdoor show on earth,” is set to host a “Drag Queen” Brunch while at the same time green-lighting its food vendors to sell hotdogs stuffed with bugs.
Last month, the Stampede, which is taking place from July 7 to July 17, announced it was offering a “Drag Queen Brunch” as part of the rodeo festivities.
The “Drag” brunch concept, which has become popular in recent years notably in left-leaning cities, for the Stampede will include no less than eight “Drag” performers.
One of the performers goes by the name “Karla Marx,” which is a name wordplay for Karl Marx, who is noted as the father of Communism.
The article reflects on the curiosity of children before lamenting that Senator Marco Rubio and numerous others on the right have criticized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) for being used as an explicitly sexual and political tool to groom children to accept progressives’ fluid view of sexuality.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network says “groomer” narratives — a hateful discourse used to target queer and trans people — are being spread across social media platforms like Twitter and TikTok.
According to the network, researchers are seeing an importation of specific discourse topics from the United States. This includes groomer narratives, disinformation about gender-affirming care and transphobic comments about family-friendly drag storytime events.
The Michigan Attorney General has called on every school to have its own drag queen, stating that drag queens are “fun” and “make everything better.”
AG Dana Nessel made her comments during a civil rights conference in Lansing after falsely claiming that Critical Race Theory isn’t being taught in schools, despite multiple instances showing it to be true.
On Wednesday, Fisher-Price unveiled the Little People Collector RuPaul figure set. The beloved toy brand shrunk down the 6-foot-5-inch drag icon into 3-inch toy figurines that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans and their kids can have for their own playroom or mantle.
Discovery+ is set to debut a new docuseries, “Generation Drag,” in June that will follow around five teenage drag queens as they discover their identities while being gawked at on stage by predators.
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During Oklahoma State University’s Pride 2022 events on-campus, local drag queens read woke books to young children during Drag Queen Story Hour for children 2-10 about inclusion and acceptance.
The preacher said that he wanted to “show” the kids how to be joyful by doing what makes him feel joy — which is putting on a dress, wig, makeup, and high heels.
There’s growing evidence that Nickelodeon’s hard push to promote the LGBTQ agenda to children is having a negative impact on the network’s ratings.
In the last two weeks, both Nickelodeon and its preschool-targeted network, Nick Jr., have released videos championing “trans,” “queer,” and “pansexual” inclusion. One video that sparked mass outrage depicted a cartoon version of drag queen Nina West singing about various LGBTQIA groups “[loving] each other so proudly” on “Blues Clues and You,” a show for two- to five-year olds. That same video showed a female-to-male transgender beaver who appeared to have post-operative surgical scars on its chest.
Many conservatives have grown accustomed to doing business with companies that are at least a little “woke.” It’s hard to go about our daily business without running into such companies, which seemingly is most of them these days. Still, there are some of us who refuse to do business with any company that is not at least politically and culturally neutral and we actively seek out companies that are truly patriotic in nature such as MyPillow (promo code “TLD” for those asking).
Nickelodeon, the children’s network, debuted a video over the weekend featuring drag queen Nina West explaining the colors of the LGBTQ Pride flag, the latest in a series of materials aimed at explaining Pride month to Nickelodeon viewers, most of whom are children.
h/t Marvin
