Former President of Drag Queen Story Hour Foundation Arrested on Child Porn

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One of the main problems is the generic belief that 'alternative sexual desires' are generally seen
as private acts or behaviour that have no reason to be performed in a public arena.

A Drag-Queen is a performance where the (usually) male overtly transforms into a female for reasons
that the public may find suspicious. If the lavishly-dressed person playing out a role of a character who
enjoys the exaggerated attire and make-up, there is a slight relaxation in the public's mind -as long as
such an outrageous display is kept in an adult setting.

Again, if this type of dressing-up is a personal need, then it would be appropriate in a civilised society to
confine this behaviour to a private setting. However, it seems the act of Drag demands it to have an audience
to benefit the performer, which to many, smacks of something akin to validating a personal sexual act in front
of witnesses.
It could be suggested that this kind of cross-dressing is no different from touching oneself on a crowded bus and
enjoying the shock of someone noticing.

Using education of the young as a vehicle to 'normalise' cross-dressing is very dangerous -in my view, because the
original reasons for Drag wasn't to validate transvestite-ism, but merely an outgrowth of the Mummers plays in
early English folklore.

But over all, it's a masking, a hiding of a person beneath another character. This is falsehood and ranges from a
hunter resembling his/her surroundings to get close to prey, to a person playing an exaggerated persona of a clown
to gain favour and adoration from an audience.

If one needs to disguise a belief or idea inside a more generally acceptable perception, it's not an honourable act
of truth-telling or having faith in the original message, it's deception.

Does this kind of betrayal sit well in a education-of-the-young section of society...? I would suggest not, it's akin
to the tactics of the hunter.

This is an outstanding post. I never even thought about most of these things. But it makes sense. 

A drag queen does not automatically equate with a pedophile. Any volunteer reading to kids could be a pedophile with nefarious motives. It does not need to be a drag queen. However, this time it is. The facts themselves connected the dots for many looking at the situation. Be that connection real or perceived. 

IMHO, if those in this "program" in Milwaukee really wanted to read to kids, then they would do so in non-drag. Those actions would reflect a genuine desire to help the kids. But they don't do that. Why? Because it's not about the welfare of the children, it's about the welfare of those reading in drag. And to that end, I can only speculate.