Far more than $200,000 invested on drag queen reveals at NYC universities: Report

Christopher Hutton

June 12, 03:23 PM June 12, 03:23 PM

New York is investing hundreds of countless numbers of taxpayer pounds to deliver drag queens to town colleges.

More than $207,000 in condition money has been paid to Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, a condition chapter, in accordance to the New York Publish. At least 49 drag packages have been arranged at 34 general public elementary, middle, and substantial universities, according to the chapter's web site.

"I can't feel this. I am stunned," said Point out Assembly prospect Helen Qiu, who is also a mother to an 11-calendar year-outdated. "I would be furious if he was uncovered without having my consent. This is not component of the curriculum."

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The total funding contains $50,000 from New York State's Council on the Arts, alongside $157,000 in funding from the city's departments of Schooling, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Community Advancement, and even the Division of Transportation.

At the very least a person City Council member is contemplating taking motion versus the funding.

"I am contemplating pulling funding to any school in my district that is employing Drag Queen Tale Hour," Republican Metropolis Council member Vickie Paladino reported. "We are taking hundreds of countless numbers of pounds out of the pockets of hardworking New York taxpayers … to fund a program instructing small young children about their gender fluidity? Not. On. My. Check out."

"DQSH captures the creativeness and perform of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, beneficial, and unabashedly queer function models," the nonprofit organization's website states. The readings have showcased a wide variety of texts, from kid's classics such as The place the Wild Issues Are and The Rainbow Fish to professional-LGBT texts these kinds of as The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.

Drag Queen Story Hour has been a source of controversy for yrs. Initially web hosting tale hours in general public libraries, the gatherings have grown additional well-known through Pleasure thirty day period and began showing up at other public activities. It sparked a noteworthy amount of controversy in Texas soon after indignant moms and dads protested outdoors a "Drag the Young ones to Satisfaction" event at a Dallas homosexual bar on June 6.