Bryan Slaton announced on Tuesday he planned to introduce legislation banning minors from drag shows.
After an anti-LGBTQ protest outside of a family drag event in Dallas, Texas Rep. Critics have spread misinformation about drag story hours and performers for the last few years, and this week threats of violence led to the cancellation of an event in North Carolina. In a May 27 letter and press release, Rubio inaccurately referred to drag queen story hours as “sexually charged content.” While GLAAD’s interview with Lil Miss Hot Mess was recorded prior to Rubio’s actions, she responded to Rubio on Twitter here, calling Rubio’s comment “an attack…on the lives of LGBTQ+ people.” The incident came exactly one year after Lil Miss Hot Mess was targeted by anti-LGBTQ activists for reading from her book on the PBS program Let’s Learn. Air Force base in Germany as a kickoff event for Pride month. Lil Miss Hot Mess was recently targeted by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who objected to a drag queen story reading scheduled at a U.S. Johnson ( All Boys Aren’t Blue), Harry Woodgate ( Grandad’s Camper), and Maia Kobabe ( Gender Queer.)
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Authors previously interviewed in the series include GLAAD President & CEO Sarah Kate Ellis and her wife Kristen Ellis-Henderson ( All Moms), George M. The interview is part of GLAAD’s ongoing #BooksNotBans campaign, which responds to book bans and school censorship by uplifting the work of LGBTQ authors as well as working with coalition partners to speak out against censorship. Watch the interview with Lil Miss Hot Mess and GLAAD’s Anthony Allen Ramos on Instagram here and on YouTube here. Both books are colorful, fun plays on classic nursery rhymes that encourage kids to sing, dance, move, and express themselves creatively.
It is her second children’s book, following 2020’s The Hips On The Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish. Her latest picture book with illustrator Olga de Dios Ruiz, If You’re A Drag Queen and You Know It, was published by Running Press Kids, a Hachette Book Group imprint, on May 17th. GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today released an exclusive interview with Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag queen, children’s book author, and board member of Drag Queen Story Hour.
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