Rhetoric against LGBTQ people is now targeting drag storytimes with interruptions and other protests around the country during Pride Month.
At one recent event outside San Francisco, members of the extremist Proud Boys walked in and began hurling insults at a drag queen as she read to children and their parents.
Organizers of the reading programs say that they have faced pushback from the beginning but that the recent vitriol is new. They say opponents who claim they want to protect children are actually just scaring and endangering them.
And they say they plan to enhance security but won’t stop their reading programs.