Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a U.S. Air Force facility, hosted a 'Reading with PRIDE' event for kids just weeks after a drag-queen storytime for kids event was canceled there.
held the event, which it dubbed"Reading with PRIDE," on June 15, with the official base Facebook page posting photos while boasting that volunteers read books to kids in celebration of Pride Month that were"focused on inclusion."
The event comes just weeks after the same base found itself at the center of controversy over its planned"Drag Queen Storytime" event for kids that was slated to take place earlier month but was canceled amid new guidance from the"We're celebrating Pride Month at the Ramstein Library with Drag Queen Storytime," read a promotion for the event on the base Facebook page that was later deleted, according to a report from Military.com.
"I think the more our military leaders are sort of dragged into spaces that have been politicized like that, I think the more it contributes to this perception that they’re political when they really aren’t," Wormuth said."So, I hope that we don’t see more of the kind of talk that’s been out in the past few days."
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