LA County MassResistance Debuts in Major Fight Against
Drag Queen Story Hour
Major press coverage forces LA City and County Libraries
on the defense
MassResistance has new chapters and operations expanding at
an incredible pace.
We have more chapters opening up in states and sections of
the country in which any form of pro-family activism seemed remote, if even
possible.
Our latest chapter, in Los Angeles County, has already begun
turning heads and making headlines.
Headed by Cheryl, a mother and grandmother based in the
South Bay section of Los Angeles County, this new chapter has assembled people
from all over the region who want to put an end to the LGBT agenda targeting
their children and their communities.
In her first effort for the new chapter, Cheryl recorded a
Drag Queen Story Hour event at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Check out
the video here. “It’s just shocking to me that people are willing to put up
with this,” Cheryl told us.
El Segundo, CA
One of local activists informed Arthur, our Organization
Director (who also lives in Los Angeles County) about an upcoming Drag Queen
Story Hour in El Segundo, CA. This little city is also known as “Mayberry by
the Sea”, because it is a quiet, quaint community with relatively little
political upheaval or controversy.
This Drag Queen Story Hour program was announced on some
social media circles. The local library did not promote the program, however,
but rather a small boutique shop: The El Segundo Museum of Art.
Promotion of Dra Queen Story Hour in
El Segundo, CA
Cheryl made some phone calls, along with other activists to
find out what a museum of any kind would promote a drag queen reading program.
One of the staffers at the museum responded by announcing that she was “queer”
herself, and she wished that she had had similar role models who could read to
her and make her feel less “different” and more included.
The El Segundo team then recruited other concerned
pro-family activists, and they began passing out flyers to the different
businesses up and down Main Street in El Segundo. In the morning one day before
the event, two of our activists were briefly followed by one of the business
owners. She began recording the two ladies while they were passing flyers out
to other business owners in the area. Eventually, they called the police in
order to ensure their own safety.
In the afternoon, another team of LA County MassResistance
activists passed out flyers to another set of businesses. These members
reported back to us that they received strong, positive feedback from the
business owners, many of whom were not even aware that a drag queen was coming
to El Segundo, and that she was going to be reading to children.
Our team then sent out a press release to the major media
outlets in Southern California, informing them of LA County MassResistance’s
continued intention to protest the drag queen event, even if the museum did not
cancel it.
In their press release, LA County MassResistance included:
1.
A video compilation of Pickle the Drag Queen’s
worst statements on video. Click
here
2.
A full dossier of his most perverse statements
and pictures on social media. Click
here.
Then came the day of the event.
LA County MassResistance protests
(Photo: Daily Breeze, Dave Rosenfeld)
The day of the protest, a number of our members showed up
along the sidewalks.
LA County MassResistance protest was
front-page news in the local paper
Later,
the local paper reported the following about MassResistance and our efforts
to stop the program and inform the greater public:
The
program, called Drag Queen Story Hour, is coordinated locally by the Los Angeles
Public Library. It began in San Francisco four years ago and has since spread
to 40 cities around the country, with drag queens reading to children at
libraries, book stores, museums and coffee shops.
Faragher
said he has presented as a drag queen to tell stories to children four-to-five
times a month over the past two years and has, so far, not had any protesters.
But
that that was until Saturday, when conservative activists associated with the
pro-family group MassResistance showed up to demonstrate at the El Segundo
museum.
“This
is the most ridiculous gross thing imaginable,” Arthur Schaper, who organized
the protest, said on Friday. “They said this is about diversity and inclusion.
Give me a break. Really?
“You
have lots of people available who can speak about diversity,” he said.
“Why
not aerospace and police officer story hour,” Schaper asked. “This is adult
entertainment. I’m just shocked.”
Drag Queen Story Hour had been going on without protest for
nearly two years. LA County MassResistance was the first group to take an
active stance against this latest push of the LGBT Agenda in Los Angeles County,
and they got positive coverage from the local media, too.
Later on, a member of the city wrote a stinging critique of
the program in his city:
West Valley/Reseda area, Los Angeles, CA
Shawn, a mother who lives in the West Valley/Reseda section
of Los Angeles, contacted our office asking for help. At her local library, the
West Valley Regional Library, the librarians were planning on hosting their own
Drag Queen Story Hour.
Right away, our team got to work, connecting Shawn with
other activists in that section of the city of Los Angeles. Shawn worked with
fellow pro-family activists to alert the public about what was going on at
their local library. Even though the library promoted their Drag Queen Story
Hour program, the staff at the library repeatedly refused to identify the drag
queen to the public.
Undeterred, Shawn urged other LA County residents,
especially those in the Reseda/West Valley section of Los Angeles, to contact
the library and demand full information from the library about this drag queen.
In addition to a calling-in campaign, Shawn and other
activists passed around flyers outside of the West Valley library. They wanted
to inform as many people as possible what was going on, since the library
started reducing the amount of promotion for the drag queen program.
At one point, one of the library staffers confronted Shawn.
Initially, he told her that she did not have a right to distribute flyers on
the library property. He provided her a copy of the code of conduct for
leafleting and pamphletting outside. After contacting one of our leaders for
information, Shawn recognized that she retains every right to pass out
literature and inform the general public about the library’s decision to bring
in an adult entertainer to read to children.
What’s worse, the library refused to explain to the public,
especially a number of our activists, whether they had conducted a background
check on the drag queen. After nearly two weeks of calls, the library refused
to even identify the drag queen, both his stage name and his real name.
This LA City Councilman actually
supports the taxpayer-funded
drag queen story hour programs!
Shawn also confronted the local city councilman, Bob
Blumenfield, whose office informed her that he was actually in support of the
program. “I asked him if he was OK with this adult entertainer reading to
children without a background check, too,” Shawn later commented.
Just like with El Segundo, our LA County MassResistance team
issued a press release condemning the program as a whole, but this time particularly
calling out the library for refusing to answer questions from outraged
residents. Our team informed the same media outlets about the unnerving amount
of secrecy around the drag queen program at the West Valley library and our
upcoming protest.
Fox News and NBC News followed up on our press release! One
of the reporters contacted our LA County leaders for more information. They
explained at length that the whole premise of the program is inappropriate. On
top of that, the public safety issues are a real concern, since MassResistance
activists uncovered not one but two sex offenders reading to children at the
Houston, Texas drag queen program earlier this year. (Click
here for details)
The day of the protest, a number of our LA County
MassResistance members, along with fellow members from surrounding counties
came to protest the event. One of our members, Genevieve—the same woman who
exposed and protested the Drag
Queen Story Hour program in Riverside, CA last year—recorded the entire
event, even up to the point where library staffers confronted her and told her
to leave!
Check out the whole video below [LINK]
Outside of the event, our LA County MassResistance chapter
leader was interviewed by NBC 4 News, one of the largest affiliates of the NBC
Universal Media Group. Check
out the full report here. The reporter tried to get a few words with Pickle
the Drag Queen, but he ran away, probably since he was uncomfortable with trying
to justify this program in front of a camera. The reporter then confronted the
library director, Mr. Jimmy Tokeshi, who tried to allay the fears of the
public, pointing out that all volunteers who work in the library do receive
background checks, etc.
Of course, the library did not feel the need to explain their
whole vetting process until MassResistance stepped in and exposed the library’s
intense secrecy about the whole program. Because of media prodding, the LA City
Library system public relations manager did issue a statement regarding their
vetting process, too:
Once again, the library would have received no scrutiny
whatsoever if not for MassResistance activists demanding answers.
Another
local paper reported on our protest, as well:
Gene Bolsoni of Northridge, who
joined members of MassResistance in protesting the event, did not concur. He
couldn’t understand why drag queens were being “normalized,” he said.
“Teaching little kids that they can
reserve their sex. What is it about?” he said. “This is kind of insane.”
But Jimmy Tokeshi, a spokesperson
at Los Angeles Public Library said the event was important because it aimed “to
reflect diversity represented in the city of Los Angeles.”
“We want children to be engaged at
the library,” Tokeshi said. “At the end of the day, parents can choose their
programming, and that’s why we offer such variety.”
Further Plans
In the next month, LA County MassResistance members will be
protesting other drag queen story hour programs, including an event in South
Los Angeles, a historically poorer section of the city with a large minority
population.
Activists across the state of California have informed our
office at length that the LGBT Agenda has been specifically target poor,
minority, immigrant communities because the people driving this agenda know
that those parents do not have the time or resources to fight back. Many of
them work two or three jobs just to make ends meet, and in many cases the
pro-LGBT programs forced onto their children are provided in English only.
Our LA County MassResistance member also intend to confront
the LA County Library, Skye Patrick, an out-lesbian and social justice warrior
activist who is more interested in pushing an agenda of left-wing diversity and
inclusion. She has been the main driving force for bringing in programs like
Drag Queen Story Hour into county libraries.
One librarian, who contacted our Organization Director
Arthur Schaper two years prior, gave us more background on the county library
director:
He later responded that the LGBT agenda has gone further
than most people realize!
In fact, the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors actually promoted Drag Queen Story Hour on
its official Twitter feed, and their video featured none other than Pickle the
Drag Queen!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p
lang="en" dir="ltr">Drag Queen performer
"Pickle" stops by the <a
href="https://twitter.com/WeHoLibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeHoLibrary</a>
to lead a story hour for kids of all ages. The <a
href="https://twitter.com/LACountyLibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LACountyLibrary</a>'s
popular program is modeled on similar reading programs across the country that
aim to inspire literacy and unite families and communities. <a
href="https://t.co/nfn4sSkJQK">pic.twitter.com/nfn4sSkJQK</a></p>—
Los Angeles County (@CountyofLA) <a
href="https://twitter.com/CountyofLA/status/1039989233740537856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
12, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
charset="utf-8"></script>
The LA County Board of Supervisors are the highest elected
oficials in the County of Los Angeles. They supervise the county library as
well as other countywide facilities. Our team intends to confront the elected
officials in one of their upcoming board meetings next month for their
promotion of Pickle the Drag Queen in the county libraries.
We will keep you informed about these events in the weeks to
come.
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