Festival sponsored by the City of Boise and other corporate sponsors features ‘Drag Kids’ segment – twitchy.com

This editor has asked before regarding things like Drag Queen Story Time and he’ll ask it again — what is the compulsion to put kids and drag queens together? Drag is adult entertainment. But now we’re seeing more and more “family-friendly” drag shows where liberal white moms give their kids crumpled dollar bills to hand to the drag queens. President Joe Biden and others have said there’s no reason for anyone to need an AR-15, and yet some very thin and undernourished militia types showed up with AR-15s to protect a family-friendly drag show in Texas recently … we wonder if all the moms were fine with assault weapons at a family event.

Christopher Rufo has tracked down a lot of kid drag shows — and this spring, Libs of TikTok posted a mega-thread of pride festival events featuring drag shows for and by kids. Now the City of Boise, Idaho, is having its festival and one of the features is “Drag Kids on Stage”: “A drag show like none other, the Drag Kids range from ages 11-18 and are ready to bring it all to the Boise Pride Festival Stage.”

Alongside the city, there are plenty of corporate sponsors: What corporation is going to say no to a pride festival?

The City of Boise is hosting a festival featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old. Sponsored by Citibank, Wells Fargo, Target, and Hewlett-Packard. pic.twitter.com/LgGdjgrxBU

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 6, 2022

And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are “site[s] of queer pleasure” used to liberate children from “the rhetoric of childhood innocence.”

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 6, 2022

Parents should follow their intuition: it’s a huge red flag for adults to have young boys dress up as women and dance for tips.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 6, 2022

Amazing that Zions Bank, founded by Brigham Young, is now supporting child drag queen performances.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 6, 2022

This is literally government (a city in deep red Idaho, no less!) joining forces with woke corporations to promote this abusive bullshit. This is partly why you pay higher local taxes, higher bank and credit card expenses, higher prices for groceries and computers. https://t.co/1ucHuWhzRH

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) September 6, 2022

you didn’t think the Californians moving to Idaho were really going to change their ways, did you?

— Ccar (@Carlso1) September 6, 2022

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— Kurt (@cookiekutter84) September 6, 2022

No child should be able to be a drag queen until 18, just like no one should be able to be a stripper until an adult. I can’t believe there is an argument about this.

— Andrea (@Anvesaka88) September 6, 2022

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Seriously, Boise! Damn Idaho what has happened?

— Steven 🇺🇸 (@airgumbi76) September 6, 2022

Boise has been like that for a very long time. No Idahoan is shocked by this but thanks for the sponsor list, I will no longer be shopping at Fred Meyer which I had up until today shopped at exclusively.

— spartangirl1986 (@spartangirl1986) September 6, 2022

If 11 yr old girls were doing this, they’d be airing an episode of To Catch a Predator.

— BamaCLT🥋 (@BamaCLT) September 6, 2022

The a** kissing of corporate America for these ridiculous CHILDREN events is chilling

— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) September 6, 2022

What “drag names” are they using? These two are problematic IMHO for “all ages”. pic.twitter.com/xkWDrg06Mz

— Jeffy (@jeffy007bond) September 6, 2022

Oh, come on, a “Back to School Pride Drag Extravaganza” in Provo, Utah, featuring Jenna Talia and Ana Lee Kage?

How or why is there even demand for this? Or is there?

— Mxndalorian (@JDO40707366) September 6, 2022

Huh, also in Boise: “Drag Out the Family”:

@MattWalshBlog @DrewHLive @Ccampbellbased @alexstein99 @whoever the hell else that I can’t think of atm that also hates these things pic.twitter.com/YTLUb6NwZk

— Of the Equation Persuasion (@SDMathProf1) August 29, 2022

As asked above … why is there even a demand for this? Who wants to see an 11-year-old boy done up as an hypersexualized caricature of a woman?

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