{"id":1506224,"date":"2022-06-07T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506224"},"modified":"2022-06-07T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:36:11","slug":"mayor-announces-cancelation-of-drag-queen-story-hour-after-community-backlash-ensure-that-all-voices-are-represented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-announces-cancelation-of-drag-queen-story-hour-after-community-backlash-ensure-that-all-voices-are-represented\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Announces Cancelation Of \u2018Drag Queen Story Hour\u2019 After Community Backlash: \u2018Ensure That All Voices\u2019 \u2018Are Represented\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayor-announces-cancelation-of-drag-queen-story-hour-after-community-backlash-ensure-that-all-voices-are-represented%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A mayor in North Carolina announced Saturday that a proposed LGBT Pride \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour\u201d event has been canceled after backlash from the community.<\/p>\n<p>Apex Mayor\u00a0Jacques Gilbert, a former captain of the\u00a0Apex Police Department, said in a Facebook message that the event was shut down after he relayed feedback from the community to the festival commission hosting the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that this part of the event was not originally presented when the event was proposed, I met with representatives from the organizations hosting the event, the Apex Festival Commission, and presented the feedback I have received from citizens,\u201d Gilbert wrote. \u201cToday I was notified that the Apex Festival Commission has taken the feedback into careful consideration and has decided to remove the Drag Queen Story Hour from the event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt continues to be my goal to ensure that all voices in our community are represented,\u201d the mayor told his constituents, adding that he had \u201creceived a variety of feedback regarding the Drag Queen Story Hour.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comments on the post were a mixed bag, and eventually disabled this week by Mayor Gilbert over \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was THE Pride event I was planning to attend with my toddler,\u201d one woman posted. \u201cVery disappointed in the event organizers who were swayed by hateful, misguided comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cMr. Mayor, if your goal is to ensure that all voices in our community are represented, you should speak out against the silencing of this segment of the local community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">One man commented, \u201cI think this is a reasonable decision for a public venue. I wish well the event and attendees, but this performance (stage names, etc.) is too adult for a children\u2019s activity. Thank you, mayor and festival committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert on Monday said he appreciates \u201cthe engagement regarding this matter,\u201d but \u201cwill not tolerate disrespectful comments attacking others and hate speech on this page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, effective June 6th at 10:20 am, I will be disabling comments on this post after several days of observing hate speech on this post,\u201d he told the public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cDespite the misinformation represented throughout the comments above, I will continue to love all members in our community as represented in the Pride proclamation that I was the first mayor of Apex to sign,\u201d the mayor added. \u201cI have very close family members of the LGBTQIA+ community who I love dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/indiana-town-cancels-family-friendly-drag-show-after-being-exposed-by-libs-of-tiktok\">\u201cfamily friendly\u201d drag event<\/a> scheduled to take place in Jasper, Indiana, was canceled after backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Pride in the Park\u2019 was advertised as being an \u2018all ages\u2019 event,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/indiana-town-cancels-family-friendly-drag-show-after-being-exposed-by-libs-of-tiktok\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. \u201cThe flyer, which [popular Twitter account] Libs of TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1531430816466669569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1531430816466669569%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Findiana-drag-show-kids-cancelled\">shared<\/a> in the post, said tips were greatly appreciated since drag \u2018is not cheap.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/indiana-town-cancels-family-friendly-drag-show-after-being-exposed-by-libs-of-tiktok\">Indiana Town Cancels \u2018Family Friendly\u2019 Drag Show After Being Exposed By Libs Of\u00a0TikTok<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mayor in North Carolina announced Saturday that a proposed LGBT Pride \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour\u201d event has been canceled after backlash from the community. Apex Mayor\u00a0Jacques Gilbert, a former captain of the\u00a0Apex Police Department, said in a Facebook message that the event was shut down after he relayed feedback from the community to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1506241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}