At the first Boise Pride Festivals roughly three decades ago, Joseph Kibbe and his friends had to hide their faces and were greeted by protesters holding nooses
Volunteers help set up for the three-day Boise Pride Festival on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 in Boise, Idaho. Organizers of the festival have been subjected to intense political pushback from the Idaho GOP and conservative groups in part because of a"Drag Kids" performance scheduled for Sunday.
Festival organizers envisioned a short performance where kids could put on sparkly dresses and lip-sync to songs like Kelly Clarkson’s “People Like Us” on stage. But others, including Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon, expected a lurid scene where children would “engage in sexual performances with adult entertainers.”
A conservative pastor from California began rallying like-minded congregations, asking members to tell the Ada County Sheriff to arrest any festival organizer who “contributes to the delinquency of minors.” A group known for armed protests told followers to show up Sunday. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric has been increasing in Idaho and around the U.S. in recent months, and earlier this year 31 members of aoutside of a northern Idaho Pride event for allegedly planning to riot. The Boise Pride organizers have been working with Boise Police to boost security since the northern Idaho arrests in June.
“She was really looking forward to being able to do it on the Pride main stage — it was a big opportunity for her to share her talent."
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