Greater than $200,000 spent on drag queen exhibits at NYC colleges: Report

New York is spending a whole lot of hundreds of taxpayer dollars to carry drag queens to metropolis colleges.

Greater than $207,000 in state funds has been paid to Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, a state chapter, based on the New York Publish. Not less than 49 drag applications have been organized at 34 public elementary, center, and excessive colleges, based on the chapter's web site.

"I am unable to consider this. I'm shocked," mentioned State Meeting candidate Helen Qiu, who can also 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."

STORY HOUR: HOW DRAG QUEEN SHOWS FOR MINORS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY COMMON

The overall funding consists of $50,000 from New York State's Council on the Arts, alongside $157,000 in funding from the town's departments of Training, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Group Growth, and even the Division of Transportation.

Not less than one Metropolis Council member is contemplating taking motion towards the funding.

"I'm contemplating pulling funding to any faculty in my district that's implementing Drag Queen Story Hour," Republican Metropolis Council member Vickie Paladino mentioned. "We're taking a whole lot of hundreds of dollars out of the pockets of hardworking New York taxpayers … to fund a program instructing little youngsters about their gender fluidity? Not. On. My. Watch."

"DQSH captures the creativeness and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and offers 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 youngsters's classics resembling The place the Wild Issues Are and The Rainbow Fish to pro-LGBT texts resembling 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 in style throughout Delight month and commenced showing at different public occasions. It sparked a notable quantity of controversy in Texas after offended dad and mom protested outdoors a "Drag the Youngsters to Delight" occasion at a Dallas homosexual bar on June 6.