Drag Story Hour protester is arrested as more than 100 people gather to defy LGBTQ+ family event in New York, as one yells: “When Trump is president again, he will shut this shit down.”
- ‘Drag Story Hour’ was hosted by State Attorney General Letitia James.
- More than 100 protesters from both sides gathered in front of the LGBTQA facility
- Drag Story Hour NYC is a nonprofit organization that has received more than $200,000 in city contracts since 2018, according to records.
A protester wearing a gold mask and sunglasses was arrested when protesters clashed outside a Drag Story Hour event in New York City on Sunday.
The LGBTQ+ family event organized by the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, drew more than 100 protesters and counter-protesters to the Greenwich Village neighborhood, where police were forced to take control.
The masked protester was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. after allegedly assaulting another protester outside the LGBTQ Community Center on West 13th Street, on The New York Daily News reported.
Video posted to social media showed counter-protesters chanting ‘Love wins’ and protesters across the street from downtown responding: ‘No, we won! When President Trump is President again, he will shut this s**t down.”
In recent months, similar events across the country have sparked increasingly heated protests from groups who allege they intend to sexually “groom” young children.
A protester wearing a gold mask and sunglasses was arrested for allegedly assaulting another protester as protesters clashed outside a Drag Story Hour event in New York on Sunday.
The LGBTQ+ family event organized by the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, drew more than 100 protesters from both sides to Greenwich Village, where police were forced to take control.
Video posted to social media showed counter-protesters chanting ‘Love wins’ and protesters across the street from downtown responding: ‘No, we won! When President Trump is President again, he’s going to shut this shit down’
The NYPD and City Hall Sergeants-at-Arms squad were at the event Sunday which drew protesters who lined both sides of the street on Sunday.
Many of the protesters waved Trump signs and wore T-shirts supporting the white supremacist group the Proud Boys.
“I am against children being exposed to sexually explicit material, adult men in dresses twerking in front of them showing their boobs, showing their butts to young children and trying to indoctrinate them into transsexualism,” said John McGuigan of New Jersey. The New York Post.
Counter-protester Michael Henry responded: “I’m here to protect our vulnerable communities: our trans community, our children.” There are a lot of ignorant people in this world.
Outside the event, Councilman Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan) said the new york post office that there were ‘a couple dozen kids with their families’ inside.
Sunday’s ‘Drag Story Hour’ was hosted by State Attorney General Letitia James.
The NYPD and City Hall Sergeants-at-Arms squad were at the event Sunday which drew protesters who lined both sides of the street on Sunday.
Protesters supporting Drag Queen story hour hold signs outside The Center, a support space for LGBTQ+ people on Sunday in New York
A protester yells and points as the NYPD holds protesters back during story time.
He addressed the issue of additional security at the event: “The council’s security team goes to all these events that council members go to and there’s a chance somebody could get hurt.”
‘A couple dozen kids with their families sitting on mats and reading stories.
‘Guess what? It was like any other story hour. She just read it a colorful costumed character.
“And the idea that this is going to make kids want to grow up to be drag queens is ridiculous,” he said.
More than 100 protesters from both sides gathered at the event in New York on Sunday.
LGBTQ supporters held up signs reading ‘Stop the Hate’ and ‘Love wins’
Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Sunday that the goal of the event was to “condemn hate and combat rampant misinformation.”
Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement Sunday that the goal of the event was to “condemn hate and combat rampant misinformation.”
“The recent surge in anti-LGBTQ+ protests, rhetoric and policies has left New Yorkers, myself included, devastated and disappointed,” James said. “But I know better than anyone that when the choice is between love and hate, between joy and poison, New Yorkers will always choose love and New Yorkers will always choose joy.”
The event, among others, is co-sponsored by the nonprofit Drag Story Hour NYC, which has received more than $200,000 in city contracts since 2018, according to records obtained by The Post.