- "Wish You Were Here…ALA Annual 2018," by ALSC Intellectual Freedom Committee, Association for Library Services to Children, 21 July 2018 (hyperlinks in original):
I love this response from "Gary Hondel":
- No doubt you have heard that the ALSC Board voted unanimously to change the name of the Wilder Award to the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award”. Unfortunately, there has been quite a bit of confusion and misinformation circulating about this decision. It is well worth your time to read the entire ALSC Statement about its decision, and to follow up with the blogpost by Jamie LaRue, Director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, here. The title of the award now aligns more closely with one of ALSC’s core values, inclusiveness, and should not be interpreted as an attempt to censor Wilder’s books.
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- Interested in bringing Drag Queen Storytime to your library? ALSC Committee Members received tips for optimizing success from library pioneers who have already done it. We also had the chance to meet a Drag Queen who talked about the value of offering this program, including fostering empathy, tolerance, creativity, imagination and fun. Drag Queen Story Hour is a non-profit and you can find out more at its homepage.
I read the statement and there’s no confusion or misunderstanding. It’s clear to me (as it is to many others) that the ALA is giving in to overly sensitive, popular hype. The award has been given away since 1954, as I understand it, and just now, all of a sudden, it’s “insensitive?” Maybe you should have thought of that decades ago. Now it just appears disingenuous and an attempt to appease opposing forces that are imagined. I promise you, most of the reasonable world does not have a problem with the award being named after Laura Ingalls Wilder. To think that you all deal in knowledge for a living yet are behaving with such unreasonable irrationality. This organization has become willing slaves to its emotions.I'm pointing out the censorship on the one hand and the promotion on the other, both being in the very same publication for librarians who serve children. The subject matter of what was promoted is irrelevant. The point is the hypocrisy to censor one topic and promote another, and the brazenness to report it all in the same publication, same story, limited to librarians.
I'm reporting this hypocrisy because it further illustrates that the American Library Association is disingenuous when it promotes Banned Books Week as if it was really interested in stemming censorship. This kind of organization deserves no credence. Besides, ALA is homophobic: "Gay Hate @ Your Library."
For your interest, here are some drag queen story hour news reports in chronological order:
- "San Francisco Public Library Hosts Drag Queen Story Hour for Children," by Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 February 2016.
- "San Francisco Public Library Hosts 'Drag Queen Story Hour' For LITTLE KIDS," by Bushrod Washington, The Federalist Papers, 27 February 2016.
- "Read by Queens: Drag Queen Storytime Comes to Winnipeg Libraries; Drag Queens, Kings to Read Stories at Pair of Events Hosted by Winnipeg Public Library," by Kelly Malone, CBC News, 1 May 2017.
- "New York City Public Library Brings in Outrageously Glam Drag Queens to Read to Kids," by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart, 16 May 2017.
- "Library Brings Drag Queens, Kids Together for Story Hour," by Deepti Hajela, Associated Press, 16 May 2017.
- "NY Library Brings Drag Queens to Kids Story Hour," by Ted Shaffrey, Associated Press NY (YouTube), 16 May 2017:
- "Drag Queen Story Hour Puts the Rainbow in Reading," by Una Lamarche, The New York Times, 19 May 2017.
- "Drag the Kids: The Queen and Co. Host Children's Storytime at Saskatoon Library; 3 Drag Queens Entertain and Inspire Large Gathering of Kids During Saturday Book Reading," by Guy Quenneville, CBC News, 10 June 2017:
CLIP: From today's Drag Queen Storytime: the introduction of Puffy von Pop-n-Fresh. #yxe #saskatoon #saskatoonpride pic.twitter.com/s1SscpvB3w— Guy Quenneville (@gq_in_sk) June 10, 2017
CLIP: The Queen, upon hearing one child say he's worn a dress: "You should do as you please. Do as you please." #yxe #saskatoon pic.twitter.com/4npi9WHwFR— Guy Quenneville (@gq_in_sk) June 10, 2017
- "Drag Queens Lead Story Time at Edmonton Library; 'To See the Rapt Attention of these Kids, the Excitement ... This is What Pride Should Be All About,'" by Roberta Bell, CBC News, 11 June 2017:
Lourdes leads a rhyme - 5 clumsy drag queens a hit w/ the crowd (there are about 150 people here) #yegpride pic.twitter.com/lYRVATtRiY— Roberta Bell (@roberta__bell) June 11, 2017
- "'Are You a Boy Or a Girl'? Drag Queen Story Hour Riles the Right, But Delights Kids; Across the Country Drag Queens are Reading Stories, and Teaching Tolerance, to Kids – But the Events Have Come Under Fire from Some Conservatives," by Erin McCormick, The Guardian, 13 June 2017.
- "Drag Queen Storytime for Kids at the Library -- What In the Name of Captain Kangaroo Is Going On?," by Todd Starnes, Fox News, 25 July 2017.
- "Public Libraries Host Drag Queen Story Hour — for Kids," by Todd Starnes, Todd Starnes, 25 July 2017.
- "Demonic Clown Drag Queen Does Story Time at Michelle Obama Public Library," by Megan Fox, PJ Media.com, 17 October 2017.
- "Drag Queen Story Times Teach Acceptance, Diversity at Toronto Libraries," by Rachel Levy-McLaughlin, The Globe and Mail, 2 January 2018.
- "Calgary Public Library Launches New Drag Storytelling Series," by Lauren Pullen, Global News, 24 February 2018.
- "Drag Queen Debut: P.E.I. Library Hosts Special Storytime; 'It's a Really Important Message for Families and for Kids to Hear, That It's Okay To Be Yourself,'" by Nancy Russell, CBC News, 29 March 2018.
- "Queens Library Brings Drag Queens, Kids Together for Story Hour," by Shirley Chan, WPIX 11, 9 May 2018.
- "Drag Queen 'Over the Rainbow' Story Hour at SJPL," by San José Public Library, San José Public Library, 12 July 2018.
- "Drag Queen Story Hour Brings Message of Acceptance and Diversity to Westchester," by Julie Moran Alterio, The Journal News, 13 July 2018.
- "Drag Queens at Public Libraries: The New Strategy to Indoctrinate Kids and Sideline Christians," by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews.com, 19 July 2018:
Drag Queens at Public Libraries: The New Strategy to Indoctrinate Kids and Sideline Christians https://t.co/VIRlUoR02u— LifeSiteNews.com (@LifeSite) July 20, 2018
- "Drag Queen Storytime at Metrotown," by Burnaby Public Library, Burnaby Public Library, 21 July 2018.
- "Miss Roxee Embraced by More Than 300 People During Drag Storytime at Wollongong City Library," by Greg Ellis, Illawarra Mercury, 21 July 2018.
- "The Best Moment of Drag Storytime at Wollongong Library Captured in Photos," by Greg Ellis, Illawarra Mercury, 21 July 2018.
- "Drag Queen Storytime at Toronto Public Library Tries to 'Indoctrinate Kids': LifeSiteNews; This Type of Backlash Doesn't Surprise Event Organizers,'" by Sima Shakeri, The Huffington Post, 21 July 2018.
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