Protesters face off over drag queen reading in Waterville (Maine)

[jpak]

https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/06/01/protesters-face-off-over-drag-queen-reading-in-waterville/

WATERVILLE — Love not hate.

That was the chant on Main Street Saturday morning from more than 100 people waving LGBTQ flags and carrying signs in a counterprotest to the backlash over an event featuring a drag queen reading to children at a local bookstore.

About 50 people packed the inside of the Children’s Book Cellar, where is was shoulder to shoulder, like a rainbow mosh pit. Ophelia, a drag queen from Topsham, read from two books about inclusion. The scheduled drag queen, Valerie Honeywell, couldn’t make Saturday’s event.

Across the street, another much smaller group, called An End to Child Indoctrination at the Cellar Bookstore, said their message was not about hating anyone — it was about sparing young children from the confusion of adult gender identity. It’s not OK for a boy to be a girl, they said, displaying signs that included “Don’t drag children’s innocence into the mud.”

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The ball cap dude with his back to the camera is a disgraced racist...

[LuvNewcastle]

1. It's funny how some people are so scared of a kid

seeing a drag queen. It's not as confusing to kids as all of the shit they're taught in Sunday school.

[trev]

2. "It's not OK for a boy to be a girl"

Actually, it's not OK for a boy to be a Republican... as the racist clearly demonstrates.