'Drag Race' stars slam Republican attempts to ban drag queen library events

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“We talk about things like playing pretend, different animal noises, different instruments we like to play and singing,” Jackie Cox says. “All the things that happen in drag can happen in a way that is appropriate for children.”

would, like Missouri’s bill, mandate that each library elect a committee that would “determine whether any sexual material provided to the public by the public library is age-inappropriate sexual material.”

The legislation was introduced in both the state’s House and the Senate by Republican lawmakers Rep. Andy Holt and Sen. Paul Bailey. Holt, a farmer and a Baptist deacon whose motto is “Grow crops, not government,”that while he doesn’t want “big government” telling us “how to live our lives,” he’s in favor of “keeping things in public facilities age-appropriate to protect children from being exposed to things they shouldn’t be exposed to at a young age.

Jackie Cox stressed that Drag Queen Story Hour events have “nothing to do with sex or any negative things that you would want to keep a child away from.” Jan lamented the “misconceptions” and “preconceived notions” people have about drag queens, which lead them to think drag performances should just be relegated to nightclubs.

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