We’ve got a great idea that would solve all of the problems associated with Drag Queen Story Hour, and that would be to stop having Drag Queen Story Hour and keep the children out of it. This is America, though, and drag queens reading to first-graders is one of the blessings of liberty, David French reminds us. And there are a lot of parents who are happy to take their young children to all-ages, family-friendly drag shows held before naptime.
New York City councilman Eric Bottcher, who is gay, says his building was vandalized by opponents of Drag Queen Story Hour, and he even posted photos.
Today people who call themselves “gays against groomers” vandalized the hallway outside our district office. We will not be cowed. We will not be silenced. We will continue to stand up against hate. pic.twitter.com/WaUEjhWc2Z
— NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) December 19, 2022
That appears to be a riff on his last name.
Tonight the Drag Story Hour protesters came to my apartment building and gained entry. My super called the cops and two of them were arrested for trespassing. This is pure hate, unmasked. If they think this is going to intimidate us, they’re mistaken. Our resolve is strengthened. pic.twitter.com/i45eyGg1AS
— NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) December 20, 2022
“This is pure hate, unmasked.”
https://t.co/yhhoMF1gTA— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 20, 2022
The Daily Beast reports:
Two women were arrested after a New York City Council member said a number of people protesting a drag reading event targeted and vandalized his office and apartment building, police said. The pair were arrested on criminal trespass charges on Monday at the apartment building of the politician, Eric Bottcher, who represents a swath of Manhattan. Bottcher tweeted that “the Drag Story Hour protesters,” including the two women in custody, had entered his apartment building, sharing photos of messages written on the sidewalk outside calling him a “pedo child groomer” and “predator.” He continued, “This is pure hate, unmasked. If they think this is going to intimidate us, they’re mistaken. Our resolve is strengthened.” Police told NBC News that roughly 10 people had been demonstrating outside the building when officers arrived on the scene around 5 p.m.
“Our resolve is strengthened,” he said, vowing to do everything he could to expand Drag Queen Story Hour to even younger audiences, probably.
Groomer clown story hour
— The (now defunct) ministry of matt (@jadedpanther14) December 20, 2022
Chalk on sidewalk is vandalism?? Lol
— Ceazar (@Ceazar_Black) December 20, 2022
He should see what’s been happening to pregnancy crisis centers, for reference. 🙃
— Edwierdo (@Edwierdo) December 20, 2022
Or the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Haha…they wrote in chalk on the sidewalk, and he calls it vandalism?
What a dishonest clown.
Stop grooming kids.
— Brian Knotts (@brianknotts) December 20, 2022
— Bitterchick (@Bitterchick) December 20, 2022
OK Groomer.
— Latin X (@RealLatinX) December 20, 2022
Don’t perform in front of children and you won’t be called groomers
— Colin (@coronadorukus) December 20, 2022
So they’re domestic terrorists that destroyed his building right @FBI @NewYorkFBI ?
I’m sure you’ll be doing an investigation like into parents at PTA meetings lol
— MagicSam (aka Fultz Force Five & Fat Jimmy) (@jj4t12win10) December 20, 2022
Stop supporting it.
— The Voice of Dissent (@TheVoiceofDiss1) December 20, 2022
Daily Beast grifters getting desperate
— TRUTH Matters (@NuanceOverDogma) December 20, 2022
Hate?
Indeed, I "hate" the fact that vile, predatory freaks are so hell-bent on performing sexualized routines in front of children. Guilty.
— Alan Stanwyck (@PLEASANTBANTER) December 20, 2022
But the burning down of communities and violence in the riots during the summer of 2020 was about “mattering”. 🤡 🌍
— LizzyKate (@mental_squint) December 20, 2022
It didn’t even matter that COVID-19 was raging, because medical experts declared that “racism is a public health emergency.”
When they stop exposing minors to sexualized adult content we will stop calling them groomers.
This isn’t hard.
— Skeptical Stoic (@StoicSkeptical) December 20, 2022
Area man advocates for grown men with a cross dressing fetish to be able to include children in their fetish.
Results predictable.
— Greenbrier (@greenbrier_n) December 20, 2022
Yes, people should hate the grooming of children. And gay people should hate that pedophiles are hiding behind their community. The gay community should be ostracizing these child predators, not lumping themselves in with them.
— Sean Bahre (@bahrecat) December 20, 2022
Hence the existence of Gays Against Groomers. And “pure hate unmasked” — why not address the hate by explaining the importance of bringing together little kids and drag queens? If people only understood how important that is, they might not be “haters.”
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Related:
Custom printer has decided to deny service to Gays Against Groomers, saying they’re anti-LGBTQ https://t.co/fNBV9PKS8w
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 12, 2022
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