Protests of drag performances, particularly Drag Story Hour events, have increased sharply across the U.S. Even New York City, the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, is not immune to the surge of anti-drag protests that has swept across the U.S. this year. In December 2022, there have been at least two such protests in NYC. The latest occurred outside a public library in the borough of Queens, where a Drag Story Hour event for children was scheduled. Shekar Krishnan, a New York City Council member who represents parts of the borough, estimated there were 500 protesters, with counterprotesters far outnumbering their anti-drag counterparts. Last year, the LGBTQ+ media advocacy group GLAAD issued a report stating that there had been more than 140 incidents of anti-LGBTQ+ protests and threats targeting drag events across 47 states in 2022, with Texas, North Carolina, and Illinois reporting the most such protests. Some of the protests, the organization found, had been organized by white nationalist groups, including the Proud Boys, who, in some cases, have shown up to Drag Story Hour events armed. The Crowd Counting Consortium, a public interest and scholarly project that documents crowds and contention in the U.S. found a sharp increase in the number of anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations across the U.S. over the past two years.
New Study Shows 2022 Had Greatest Number Of Anti Drag Attacks In History
- Jasmine Pryce Lords
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