Attendee: ‘I just wish more people were accepting of everybody’
Before the interruption at the Los Gatos event, the children’s section of the library was packed with families singing and smiling. Los Gatos residents Stephanie and Rhyan Lynn brought their daughter Harper to the event and said they loved the energy in the room.
“We’re part of the community. I’m trans myself, and so I wanted to be supportive of our community,” Rhyan Lynn said. “And I also think it’s important for our kids to grow up with the normalcy of people being themselves.” Drag Story Hour is a global nonprofit organization founded in San Francisco that has drag queens reading stories to children in libraries and schools to give kids queer role models and promote self expression.
Library director Ryan Baker said he puts out a survey for event recommendations every year, and Drag Story Hour was on the list for years. “This summer it was one of 248 events we did,” Baker said. “We try to have something for absolutely everybody, and everybody is welcomed within the library space.”“I was given some information last night of an email chain going around trying to organize a protest,” Baker said. “I thought we would get a large congregation of people protesting. I was actually very surprised that we didn’t. … We had quite a bit of pre-planning and communication with our police department and all those things.
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