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(288 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2019, 11:32 PM Mar 2019

Houston drag queen story time organizers quit after death threats from Loving Christians

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/03/houston-drag-queen-story-time-organizers-quit-death-threats-loving-christians/?utm_source=LGBTQ+Nation+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b75a1b4ebe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_22_04_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4eab596bd-b75a1b4ebe-429855713

The organizers of Houston’s Drag Queen Story Time project are calling it quits after intimidation and death threats by conservative Christians and nonstop harassment by a religious right leader. Earlier this year, an armed man burst into a Houston library and was arrested after he refused to leave.

Directors Trent Lira and Devin Will wrote a piece for Houstonian that describes the hell they’ve been going through since a local news report spotlighted the children’s reading initiative and why they’ve decided to “step aside.”

“The segment coincided with a City Council meeting at which at-large member Michael Kubosh condemned our program,” the two wrote. “We got our first protesters that same month, July 2018. Texans Against Transgender Tyranny, they were called.”

“They were peaceful and civil. No one inside the Freed-Montrose Library knew there were protesters outside until a patron came in and told us. It continued like this through August and September. It disturbed us, but what could we say? They were standing outside and politely informing the public that there were drag queens in there reading to children. It was their right. It was not a threat.”