What a Drag: Corrupting the Innocent at Children’s Libraries
The New York Times has treated its readers to an article: “Drag Queen Story Hour Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash.” It must be a relief to the Times’ audience to know that this is so. The struggle to assure the ascendancy of the Drag Queen Story Hour is, of course, presented in the usual terms of intolerance on the side of those who oppose it, and toleration and acceptance on the side of those who embrace it. Melissa Bean, who started the Middle Tennessee chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour, reassures us. “There is no hidden agenda or meaning behind it. We are not trying to breed drag kids.” Indeed, what they are most interested in is not drag recruitment but something much bigger. That is, establishing the public acceptance of the principle at the heart of the LGBTQ movement. That includes allowing men to traipse around in women’s clothing and makeup in front of children. But it goes even further than that. The hidden agenda exists, and it is a metaphysical one. I