How to solve the upcoming drag culture war

A very simple solution to a difficult problem

Recently, Aida H Dee had a Drag Queen Story Hour performance disrupted by what appears to be a right-wing organisation. It was a protest you would never see from any feminist group because it ran the risk of upsetting children. These particular protesters didn’t seem to give that any thought. Still, they’re clearly surprised and pleased that they’ve caught a wave.

Speaking of upsetting children, here are some photos promoting a Drag Queen Story Time event in Wales.

I promise you this is not a joke. I actually asked some Welsh people about it.

Did we die? Is this hell? Have these children been particularly naughty? When you’re a parent of young children you’re desperate for anything that might give you half an hour of zoning-out time, but I think even at our most exhausted we would have avoided bringing our children to whatever kind of AI-generated nightmare playgroup this is supposed to be.

To sum up, everything about Drag Queen storytime is a shitshow, and proves something groups like the LGB Alliance have been saying for years—that when the Right gets wind of just how crazy and contemptuous of safeguarding these people are, the backlash will come, and LGB and trans-identified people will be its first victims. In Reading, I think it’s important to stress again, there were also very young children who could have been hurt. I understand also that the Bristol Black Pampers have turned their attention from terrorising women to rumbling with the Far Right at future Drag Queen Story events. So it looks like we’re going to have great scenes like this here in the UK! Except with toddlers!

I have a solution that will immediately put a stop to this stupid new front in the culture war. You ready? Here it comes.

Stop hosting, promoting or otherwise normalising drag shows for kids! No-one wants this except a few opportunistic drag queens who spotted a gap in the market. Aida H Dee doesn’t even bother changing from his nightclub outfit to entertain children. He also doxxes people who cross him and he doesn’t like JK Rowling. How is this person an appropriate figure to be reading to children??

Drag is a contentious issue even within the gay community. Many lesbians don’t like it, finding it offensively misogynistic. And there have now been multiple stories of paedophiles using the relaxed safeguarding around such events to gain access to children. Nothing about this is good! Nothing!

If you want kids to meet gay people, get a lesbian firefighter in to read to them.

Drag has nothing to do with kids. And if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe an actual drag queen.

Write to your MP, write to your local library, write to anyone in a position of authority and tell them to start being the adults in the room. People like Aida H Dee aren’t the problem. Individuals are not to blame but the councils and libraries that are pushing a contentious agenda without listening to concerns. If something happens, make sure you give them no opportunity to wriggle out of the blame.

Tell them that Drag Queen Storytime is a terrible idea, that it’s going to put children and perhaps even gay people at risk, and it’s all entirely avoidable. Write to them and get it shut down.