Drag storytellers grapple with growing threats by Republicans and far right

"I want to teach her that she can wear whatever, love whoever, be whoever," Towle said, patting the flower garland on top of her daughter's blonde hair. 

But drag story hours are no longer simple in the US. They have been targeted by Republicans and the far-right with protests and threats of violence and wild conspiracy theories around grooming and abuse. At the same, there has been a concerted legislative push to erode LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the US, an effort to remove LGBTQ literature from public libraries and rising acts of violence against the community…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/us-drag-storytellers-face-growing-threats