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Curiosities t1_j29zwwk wrote

>(burlesque houses and gay bars are not kid friendly spaces)

They're not going to burlesque houses or gay bars, and nor are they getting an adult-oriented performance. They're getting silly, colorful performers reading age-appropriate material, and performing for children, with their audience in mind.

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Wowzlul t1_j2a6itu wrote

I think a lot of this anger is stirred up by social media shit-stirrers (one in particular) who posts videos from actual drag and burlesque shows where a few parents have (wrongly, in my view) taken their children to be in the audience.

This conveniently omits the much larger number of shows where this does not happen, the much larger number of parents who don't take children to these events, and of course the completely age-appropriate, de-sexualized drag queen story hours put on by NYPL.

It implants the idea that lgbt people are somehow publicly sexual (in the prurient sense) in all contexts, at all times, that there is no such thing as drag or crossdressing or gender-nonconforming behavior of any kind that isn't sexual, and that therefore lgbt people have to be driven from any and all public spaces where children are present, to protect children from age-inappropriate sexual displays. It erases all distinctions between drag queen story hour and the drag show at your local gay bar, putting a target on the back of the performers as well as anyone who "supports" them.

It's sneaky, posisonous, and pretty scary to be honest with you.

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