No longer just in libraries, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is now in our schools! That is correct. Your tax dollars not only support DQSH in libraries but is showing up in schools as well.
Drag Queen Story Hour
- The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour
This article reveals the history and real goals of DQSH.
- 21,460 Attend Library Conference Featuring Workshops on Drag Queen and Queering Elementary Schools
The American Library Association (ALA) continues, even today, to allow erotic performers to influence and interact with innocent and impressionable children using public funds and buildings.
How DQSH Began in Minnesota
- Libraries Violate Public Trust with Drag Queen Story Hours
This news article describes how Child Protection League along with parents and citizens exposed the library Drag Queen Story Hours in Hennepin County. The CPLAction Facebook post went viral overnight with over 658,000 views and the story was picked up by numerous national news outlets.
- Drag Queen Story Hour in MN Public Libraries (22 minutes)
Barb Anderson’s presentation is a must watch as she explains with video clips, illustrations, and quotes about these DQSH in MN libraries.
- Drag Queen Flashes Crotch to Children in Minnesota
(4 minute video)
Ways to Take Action
The following are suggestions for ways to stand against drag queens from being allowed to read LGBT+ and transgender books to children in libraries and schools.
- Find out if your library or school has hosted Drag Queen Story Hours.
Contact your school administrators and school boards! Contact the library directors, the library board members as well as the American Library Association (ALA) with your concerns.
- Submit a letter
These letters can be adapted for schools as well.
Sample letter to editor: What is going on in our public libraries?
Sample letter to city council: Promoting Drag Queen Story Hour to Children During Pride Event (PDF)
- Inform your legislative candidates.
Find out if they can tell you why publicly funded libraries and schools are no longer a safe place for children!
- Give testimony before school and library boards.
If your school or library is involved in hosting DQSH, give testimony in writing and/or in person against exposing children to drag queens.
Sample: Testimony Before Hennepin Library Committee (PDF)
- Apply to serve on the library board or run for school board.
Example: In Hennepin County MN, applications are being taken for library board members until December 31. Interviews and appointments are decided by the Hennepin County Commissioners.