Drag queen story hour at local library sparks outrage in Gerritsen Beach
A popular library program promoting tolerance is sparking a furious demand from some Gerritsen Beach neighbors: stay away from our kids.
The event: Drag Queen Story Hour. The headliner: a big-wigged performer named Angel Elektra.
Drag Queen Story Hour is a worldwide program that invites drag queens to read to kids and teens at libraries, schools, museums and other community spaces. It aims to give “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models,” according to the program’s website. As the Gerritsen Avenue branch of the Brooklyn Public Library began advertising its first local installment of the story hour, outraged neighbors started pushing a flyer of their own.