ALA Pushes Drag Queen Story Hour at ALA Annual Conference

American Library Association pushes Drag Queen Story Hour at its biggest conference, ALA Annual, by training librarians to push it into communities nationwide.  Notice, no mention of literacy—just intersectionality, no mention of unvetted drag queens turning out to be pedophiles like at Houston Public Library, no mention of how DQSH harms the LGBT community, but there's the Office for Intellectual Freedom "expanding boundaries" at this training session with the Assistant Director (a nice person individually) as a speaker.

I am writing about the pervasiveness of ALA's DQSH promotion, or DQS as they call it, so stay tuned here.

Telling Stories, Expanding Boundaries:

Drag Queen Storytimes in Libraries

Saturday, June 22 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Location: Washington Convention Center, 147B

"This session will explore the public library as a site for the intersection of gender expression/identity and intellectual freedom, by discussing the phenomenon of Drag Queen Storytime (DGS). The session will consist of a panel featuring originators of the DGS concept; librarians whose institutions have been involved in DGS, with both the popularity and the controversy that have ensued; and a local drag queen storyteller who will read a story to the audience. The DGS program has been immensely popular with many audiences at libraries across the country, but it has also produced its share of resistance and controversy. The panel will discuss how DGS was developed and originally implemented, how librarians have been using it today, how institutions have dealt with specific successes and controversies, and how DGS relates to intellectual freedom."

Source (archived), linked from here: "Que(e)ry's Coming to ALA Annual in Washington D.C.!"

“Telling Stories, Expanding Boundaries: Drag Queen Storytimes in Libraries” a @queeryparty #alaac19 event https://t.co/TyqO2Htcl5

SHOWS @ALALibrary DIRECTLY PROMOTES #DragQueenStoryHour: @OIF’s @KPekoll = speaker.@activist_mommy @toddstarnes @IngrahamAngle @TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/akC3ffDGPu

— Dan Kleinman (@SafeLibraries) June 21, 2019

NOTE ADDED AN HOUR LATER:

What is interesting is that they are holding a panel about DQSH, when in fact they are outrighting supporting it. They want to appear to show concern via debate panel. On the contrary, the ALA champions this indocrination platform.

— Kyle (@CCLibrarianLV) June 21, 2019

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