'Drag Queen Story Hour' sparks protests in rural, Southern towns

“Drag Queen Story Hour,” a program in which men in drag read children’s books to kids in libraries or bookstores, is reportedly seeing opposition in some rural, Southern towns.

The president of the local public library board in Lafayette, La., resigned due to pushback against the program, according to The Associated Press, which added that Lafayette Mayor Joel Robideaux (R) might cancel the library’s story hour.

The news service also noted that a small group of protesters also demonstrated outside a similar event at a library in Columbus, Ga., citing the Ledger-Enquirer.

And a group called Common Sense Campaign Tea Party is also reportedly calling for a protest of an event this month at a public library in Mobile, Ala., it added.

“The program is designed to purposely target children so as to make sexual perversion acceptable through repeated exposure,” according to a poster on the group's Facebook page, the AP reported.

Drag queen Khloe Kash is reportedly scheduled to visit Mobile and read “Rainbow Fish” and other children’s books, including “Stella Brings the Family,” about a little girl unsure what to do as Mother’s Day approaches because she has two fathers.

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