{"id":1576165,"date":"2022-07-28T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576165"},"modified":"2022-07-28T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:16:16","slug":"more-akin-to-disney-than-anything-risque-chicago-tribune-celebrates-drag-shows-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-akin-to-disney-than-anything-risque-chicago-tribune-celebrates-drag-shows-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More Akin To Disney Than Anything Risque\u2019: Chicago Tribune Celebrates Drag Shows For Kids"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmore-akin-to-disney-than-anything-risque-chicago-tribune-celebrates-drag-shows-for-kids%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=1576165&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>The Chicago Tribune, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-kid-friendly-drag-performances-20220726-nqvwbz3qbvamvpdf3wd6msbl6e-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Don%27t%20miss%3A%20News%20%2B%20Business&#038;utm_content=5701658975118\">article<\/a> about \u201ckid-friendly drag performances,\u201d compared them to productions created by Disney.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune posited that \u201cextremist groups have seized\u201d on such events and described them as inappropriate and harmful to children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKid-friendly drag performances are modified to be appropriate for children \u2014 more akin to Disney than anything risqu\u00e9,\u201d The Tribune celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune cheered a drag queen named Muffy Fishbasket, who calls himself \u00a0Miss Muffy for performances in front of kids, saying he appeared at Andersonville\u2019s Midsommarfest in June, \u201celiciting laughs and giggles from the crowd of children and adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting \u201cKid-friendly drag performances and story hours\u201d that have been around Chicago and suburbs for some time, the Tribune wrote enthusiastically, \u201cThe events, replete with colorful costumes and makeup, offer children a chance to see free expression and broken-down gender norms, according to those who host them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muffy Fishbasket told the Tribune he has been asked by children why he wears \u201cgirl clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say, \u2018They\u2019re not; they\u2019re my clothes,\u2019\u201d he declared. \u201cIt\u2019s taking away these gender normatives that just don\u2019t even need to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/entertainment\/music-news-reviews\/article263872577.html\">filed a complaint<\/a> against a Miami bar, asserting that the bar\u2019s Drag Show Brunches exposed minors to \u201csexually explicit drag shows.\u201d The complaint stated, \u201cThe nature of the performances described above, particularly when conducted in the presence of young children, corrupts the public morals and outrages the sense of public decency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis noted that Florida\u2019s Department of Business and Professional Regulation visited the bar, adding, \u201cWhat they found was not only were there minors there for some of these, and these are sexually explicit drag shows, the bar had a children\u2019s menu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a video out of Dallas where they had all these young kids, putting money in the underwear of these drag queens,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2022\/07\/27\/florida-gov-ron-desantis-takes-aim-at-wynwood-restaurant-r-house-for-popular-drag-show\/\">remarked.<\/a> \u201cHaving kids involved in this is wrong. That is not consistent with our law and policy in the state of Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diamante Habibi, a New York drag queen, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/drag-queens-targeted-us-far-right\">The Guardian<\/a>, \u201cThe drag queen story hour is super important for kids. You need a creative person to bring an imaginative state to the kids and we\u2019re able to do that in a way that\u2019s safe for them and entertaining for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans to develop children\u2019s entertainment content.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune, in an article about \u201ckid-friendly drag performances,\u201d compared them to productions created by Disney. 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