"We feel like it's our job to provide a safe family-friendly space for that. "There's young children just in general who need that sense of exploration and creativity and even like, permission to know it's OK to dress up," Yanez said. "Adult sexuality introduced to a child - especially outside of the family unit - is not 'playful' or safely entertaining. It is at best inappropriate, and at worst, criminal."Īt Saturday's event Quentin Yanez, who goes by the name of "Mimi Southwest" while performing in drag, read picture books like "Pig the Rebel" by Aaron Blabey and "Pete the Cat's Groovy Imagination" by Kimberly and James Dean to a crowd of children and their parents. "Drag queen storytime is an exercise in normalizing what is not normal, and can be upsetting, scary and confusing to a young child," the Oakland County GOP said in a statement.
The Oakland County GOP also encouraged adults to attend Saturday's protest. Shane Trejo, Grand New Party PAC executive director, called the event part of a child grooming agenda in an email promoting the protest against the storytime. The protest was organized by a conservative group that formed late in 2022 called the Grand New Party. "Out here we have men dressed like ladies that are teaching children sexualization, which is obviously a perversion and pretty much as I see as pedophilia," Frantjeskos, 44, said. View Gallery: Drag Queen Story Time protest in Royal OakĪ Westland native Jason Frantjeskos was one of a few dozen protesters and said it "is sexualizing our children."
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