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New York is spending lots of of hundreds of taxpayer {dollars} to convey drag queens to metropolis faculties.

Greater than $207,000 in state funds has been paid to Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, a state chapter, based on the New York Submit. A minimum of 49 drag packages have been organized at 34 public elementary, center, and excessive faculties, based on the chapter’s web site.

“I am unable to imagine this. I’m shocked,” mentioned State Meeting candidate Helen Qiu, who can be a mom to an 11-year-old. “I might be livid if he was uncovered with out my consent. This isn’t a part of the curriculum.”

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The full funding contains $50,000 from New York State’s Council on the Arts, alongside $157,000 in funding from the town’s departments of Schooling, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Group Growth, and even the Division of Transportation.

A minimum of one Metropolis Council member is contemplating taking motion in opposition to the funding.

“I’m contemplating pulling funding to any college in my district that’s implementing Drag Queen Story Hour,” Republican Metropolis Council member Vickie Paladino mentioned. “We’re taking lots of of hundreds of {dollars} out of the pockets of hardworking New York taxpayers … to fund a program instructing little kids about their gender fluidity? Not. On. My. Watch.”

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“DQSH captures the creativeness and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and provides children glamorous, constructive, and unabashedly queer function fashions,” the nonprofit group’s web site says. The readings have featured quite a lot of texts, from kids’s classics corresponding to The place the Wild Issues Are and The Rainbow Fish to pro-LGBT texts corresponding to The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.

Drag Queen Story Hour has been a supply of controversy for years. Initially internet hosting story hours in public libraries, the occasions have grown extra fashionable throughout Delight month and started showing at different public occasions. It sparked a notable quantity of controversy in Texas after offended mother and father protested exterior a “Drag the Children to Delight” occasion at a Dallas homosexual bar on June 6.