NYC ‘Drag Story Hour’ draws protesters, cops, even City Council guards
drew more than 100 protesters from all sides Sunday — forcing cops and even City Council security guards to the raucous Manhattan scene.
“The council security team goes to all these events where the council members go and there’s a chance of someone being hurt,” Councilman Erik Bottcher told The Post outside Sunday’s story hour. “I’m against kids being exposed to sexually explicit material, to grown men in dresses twerking in front of them showing their breasts, showing off their behinds to little kids and trying to indoctrinate them into trangenderism,” said John McGuigan of New Jersey.Demonstrators on both sides of the LGBTQ debate were on hand for state Attorney General Letitia James’ “Drag Story Hour” in the West Village on Sunday.
“Drag Story Hour” events in the Big Apple are co-sponsored by the nonprofit Drag Story Hour NYC, which has received more than $200,000 in city contracts since 2018.“Guess what? It was like any other story hour. It just happened to be read by a colorful character in a costume.
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