Taunton Library drag queen children’s story event sparks outrage

An event at which a drag artist will read stories to children has sparked outrage on social media.

Alyssa Van Delle has been invited to Taunton Library in February as part of LGBTQ+ History Month.

The performer will read from children’s books that cover LGBTQ themes or challenge traditional fairy tales.

Event organiser Tom Canham said he was ‘quite surprised’ at the criticism as previous events had been warmly received, BBC reports.

We don’t see the problem that drag queens reads stories to children – but we see a problem with the outrage from people that clearly has drag queen phobia and clearly wants to transfer their prejudice to the children.