{"id":1520758,"date":"2022-06-17T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520758"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:05:07","slug":"core-to-what-our-city-embraces-nyc-mayor-defends-drag-queen-story-hour-after-councilwomans-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/core-to-what-our-city-embraces-nyc-mayor-defends-drag-queen-story-hour-after-councilwomans-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Core To What Our City Embraces\u2019: NYC Mayor Defends Drag Queen Story Hour After Councilwoman\u2019s Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fcore-to-what-our-city-embraces-nyc-mayor-defends-drag-queen-story-hour-after-councilwomans-comments%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=1520758&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended drag queen story hour Thursday on Twitter after a city councilwoman threatened to remove funding for any school that promoted what she called \u201cdegeneracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces,\u201d Mayor Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1537577926257934336\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York City has spent over $200,000 of taxpayer funds to the group Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/11\/over-200k-being-spent-on-drag-queen-shows-at-nyc-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the New York Post reported<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Documents obtained by NYP showed that $157,000 of that money came from the city\u2019s Departments of Education, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Community Development, and the Department of Transportation. $80,000 has been set aside for the group in the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am considering pulling funding to any school in my district that is implementing Drag Queen Story Hour,\u201d New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/11\/over-200k-being-spent-on-drag-queen-shows-at-nyc-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/25\/jack-dorsey-nypost-hunter-biden-steve-scalise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the pockets of hardworking New York taxpayers \u2026 to fund a program teaching little children about their gender fluidity? Not. On. My. Watch.\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Paladino doubled down on her comments Monday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny school in my district participating in \u2018drag queen\u2019 degeneracy risks losing their funding,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am quoted in this article, and I will reiterate: Any school in my district participating in \u2018drag queen\u2019 degeneracy risks losing their funding.<\/p>\n<p>Adult drag performers have NO BUSINESS in our schools, and they will not be in my district. Period. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rCKuvYNW0K\">https:\/\/t.co\/rCKuvYNW0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VickieforNYC\/status\/1536386629857857536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018hate speech\u2019 to say drag queens don\u2019t belong in schools. I make zero apologies for that,\u201d Paladino <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VickieforNYC\/status\/1537564240671817728?s=20&#038;t=lfZvTLgfy4IzhXV-JEIDug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She added that her office now requires a security detail due to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VickieforNYC\/status\/1537564238159429635?s=20&#038;t=lfZvTLgfy4IzhXV-JEIDug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threats of violence against her<\/a> since her comments.<\/p>\n<p>Paladino did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate,\u201d Mayor Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1537578910317166592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThe goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment in time for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended drag queen story hour Thursday on Twitter after a city councilwoman threatened to remove funding for any school that promoted what she called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520758","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\/1520758","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\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}