Very well stated, thank you! In a story I published yesterday, I also wrote about drag queens, about conservative religious leaders in a small Texas city freaking out over drag queens lip syncing to Christmas music in a parade.

The religious leaders who organized the parade along with the city tried to bar not just drag queens but all openly LGBTQ people from the parade. The whole situation looked like a setup for violence and further contagion/contamination vilification.

Fortunately, city officials put their heads together and came up with a very creative solution. And it turned out that actual residents of Taylor, Texas weren't interested in endorsing hatred. I don't write a lot of feel-good stories, but yesterday's is one of them, if you want to take a look.

I'm getting ready to write a story, on the other hand, about self-described Nazis in my home state of Ohio turning out in pretty big numbers the other day, heavily armed, to "protect" their community from drag queens reading stories. It's just absurd, besides being really frightening.

Children don't drive themselves to drag-queen story hours. Maybe all these hateful protesters should worry about their own children instead of trying to parent other people's children ... with guns and Nazi salutes.