Quote (bena2OO5 @ 22 Oct 2017 19:41)
LONG BEACH (CBSLA) — A Long Beach congressional candidate says he’s “outraged” after a drag queen sporting demon-like horns was invited to read to children at a local library.
Omar Navarro, a Republican candidate looking to unseat Maxine Waters for the 43rd District, posted an image of performer Xochi Mochi reading to kids as part of the Drag Queen Story Hour at the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library on Saturday.
Navarro’s tweet asked, “What are we teaching kids in school? Demonic teachings alive in Long Beach. I’m outraged they would allow this.”
The image shows Mochi – clad in heavy makeup and sporting red-tipped horns on his head – in front of an audience of kids, some of whom also appeared to be in costume.
An official link for Drag Queen Story Hour did not describe it as a Halloween-themed event.
Mochi later said it was one of his “best experiences…as a drag queen.”
“It’s so important to have representation and normalize all the letters in LGBTQIA+ in everyday lives,” he wrote on an Instagram post.
Other posts showed Mochi taking pictures in drag with a library staff member.
The Drag Queen Story Hour is part of a collaboration between the LBPL, The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach, the Genders and Sexualities Alliance Network and the LGBTQ nonprofit Imperial Court of Long Beach.
What's low about this? You never saw Dame Edna Everidge or Blankety Blank's Lily Savage as a kid? It's just a drag queen reading stories. Nothing abnormal or remotely new about female impersonators performing in front of children. People been doing this since forever.
e/ and by 'since forever' I mean literally since the ancient world. It's actually much more modern and progressive to have genuine females teaching and performing.
This post was edited by Scaly on Oct 22 2017 02:01pm