Andrea Widberg "In 2015, drag queens reading in libraries suddenly became a "thing." While I see these men as grotesque appropriations of womanhood, they were sold as cute, sparkly people who make reading fun. Once the camel's nose was in the tent, drag queens performing for children started appearing everywhere, not just in libraries, where weird parents intentionally bring their children, but at nightclubs and across schools, where children are captive audiences. It's become so endemic that Libs of TikTok has put together a seemingly endless thread of such appearances.
"Back in the early 1990s, some men I knew when I worked in San Francisco performed as part of a Drag Queen a cappella group. Unlike many of the drag queens parading around today, these guys were actually talented performers, so I enjoyed the first show I attended. By the second show, though, I'd had enough. While some songs were clever parodies of pop culture issues, way too many were obsessed with sodomy (in more detail than most people should ever want to know), fecal matter, and STDs. ". . .
. . ."So the drag queens have continued to dig their way into children's lives. It's not just at libraries. The big children's entertainment media companies are on board. Andrew Levitt, an untalented drag performer but highly talented self-promoter, inveigled his way into Nickelodeon, appearing on the children's show Blue's Clues and You and singing about LGBTQ identities in a video aimed at children. And now Disney+ has Levitt urging little children to celebrate gay pride and drag queens with him.". . .
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