Drag community gets support at public library story times after escalating protests yyc
The program, however, has faced escalating protests in Calgary and other cities around the world with complaints that drag contributes to the sexualization or grooming of children.
At the Country Hills Library in March, two men stood holding placards along the edge of the library’s parking lot. A larger protest could be heard on a loudspeaker a few blocks away.Article content Several teens sang “Let it Go” and “Dancing Queen” nearby as police officers, on bikes and in marked vehicles, kept watch and recorded video between the protest and the rally.
“This is a post-COVID impact,” suggested Demers. “These people are looking for community, they found it over COVID protesting and we have become the target.”“I am here to support the drag queens and the idea of diversity and the idea of children learning to read rather than hate,” Alison Whitley said at the rally.
Kris Wells, an expert on gender and youth at MacEwan University in Edmonton, said many of the protests are connected to a movement in the United States.
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