Jeffers also said that “Michelle Tea, specifically, was not involved as the presenter or host,” though Radar Productions presented the story hour. San Francisco Public Library spokeswoman Michelle Jeffers confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation that this story hour took place at the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library. “It was a huge hit,” Tea said, “and then it just spread.” At the first Drag Queen Story Hour, a drag queen read a “queer-inclusive book” to children. Tea collaborated with RADAR Productions, a queer literary arts organization she founded in 2003, to produce the first Drag Queen Story Hour at a library in the historically LGBTQ San Francisco neighborhood of Castro.
“It’s just a certain sense of humor, a sense of the fantastic.” Tea did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation. “There is just a sort of flair with which queers do anything,” she told BuzzFeed News in November 2018. Tea had just given birth to a baby boy and frequently attended library story hours, but said they were “really straight” and did not properly include her queer family. Queer author Michelle Tea reportedly organized the first Drag Queen Story Hour in San Francisco, California, in 2015. The New York City-based organization did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation. “In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real,” the Drag Queen Story Hour’s website states. 22 Drag Queen Story Hour in Ithaca, New York, drag queens Coraline Chardonnay and Tilia Cordata read the books “ Prince and Knight” and “ Maiden and Princess,” books created to explore gender through fantasy. The events are designed to be about 45 minutes long for children aged 3 to 8 years old, intended to capture children’s imagination and help children explore their gender fluidity through “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”īooks used during Drag Queen Story Hours focus on gender identity and same-sex relationships. These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children.
Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events-aimed at children as young as age 3-have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities.
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