{"id":1636219,"date":"2022-09-08T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636219"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:19:44","slug":"boise-pride-festival-loses-sponsor-over-scheduled-drag-kids-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boise-pride-festival-loses-sponsor-over-scheduled-drag-kids-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Boise Pride Festival Loses Sponsor Over Scheduled \u2018Drag Kids\u2019 Performance"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fboise-pride-festival-loses-sponsor-over-scheduled-drag-kids-performance%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=1636219&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 Utah-based bank pulled its sponsorship from the upcoming Boise Pride Festival in response to backlash over a scheduled \u201cDrag Kids\u201d show where children as young as 11 are set to perform on stage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zions Bank posted a statement to Twitter on Wednesday announcing it was \u201cunaware of the event\u2019s activities involving children\/minors\u201d and decided to withdraw sponsorship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, Zions Bank has supported a variety of Pride events because they are an important part of our support for our LGBTQ employees and allies and are representative of our efforts to foster an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace and community,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThis support for all of our employees and communities remains unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IHBJxFT0wM\">pic.twitter.com\/IHBJxFT0wM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zions Bank (@ZionsBank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZionsBank\/status\/1567608336950136834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a manner of hours, Boise Pride organizers responded with their own statement on Twitter, accusing Zions Bank of responding to \u201cclearly anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and actions\u201d and defending the scheduled \u201cDrag Kids\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinors have participated in the Boise Pride Festival both on and off stage for many years. Pride and inclusivity do not begin at age 18,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boise Pride&#8217;s response to the statement from Zions Bank about pulling their participation in this weekend&#8217;s Boise Pride Festival. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/boisepride2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#boisepride2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/supportingoursuperhumans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#supportingoursuperhumans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fm16eCHBIP\">pic.twitter.com\/Fm16eCHBIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boise Pride (@boisepride) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boisepride\/status\/1567643299263184897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zions Bank had an \u201corange tier\u201d sponsorship, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9\/t\/622f805924f3ab682740c785\/1647280298943\/2022-Sponsorship-Brochure.pdf\">brochure<\/a>, pledging $18,000 for various advertising opportunities and exhibit space. The financial institution was removed from the Boise Pride Festival website following the announcement of its departure on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrag Kids\u201d is planned for 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, and is described in the Boise Pride Festival <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6046fb95a0a3ed5aaf7702e9\/t\/63110189f37d207226ca483b\/1662058937017\/2022+Boise+Pride+Guide.pdf\">downloadable guide<\/a> as \u201ca drag show like none other the Drag Kids range from ages 11-18 and are ready to bring it all to the Boise Pride Festival Stage! Come and cheer them on as they bring drag to the younger generation!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A newly-elected chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, Dorothy Moon, urged businesses to pull their support from the festival on Wednesday, calling on \u201cconcerned Idahoans\u201d to \u201cdisavow this attack on Idaho\u2019s children and invest their sponsorship dollars\u201d elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Moon criticized Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the financial donors of the event for encouraging the \u201csexualization of children.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon has put out a statement she says is about Boise Pride Festival, which runs this weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/idpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#idpol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fQPpllB0vm\">pic.twitter.com\/fQPpllB0vm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clark Corbin (@clarkcorbin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clarkcorbin\/status\/1567539635727007744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut-of-state companies promise to bring investment and jobs to Idaho,\u201d said Moon. \u201cInstead, they are financing the sexualization of our children and the perverse idea that children should engage in sexual performances with adult entertainers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attention surrounding the event began on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, when the activist and writer Christopher Rufo created a thread criticizing the City of Boise for \u201chosting a festival featuring child drag queens as young as 11 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are \u2018site[s] of queer pleasure\u2019 used to liberate children from \u2018the rhetoric of childhood innocence.\u2019\u201d added Rufo, quoting from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/03626784.2020.1864621\">academic paper<\/a> published by \u201cqueer theorists\u201d entitled \u201cDrag Pedagogy: The Playful Practice of Queer Imagination in Early Childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And yes, drag shows involving children are explicitly designed to re-engineer child sexuality. As the academic queer theorists have explained, these performances are &#8220;site[s] of queer pleasure&#8221; used to liberate children from &#8220;the rhetoric of childhood innocence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1567223349725794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Utah-based bank pulled its sponsorship from the upcoming Boise Pride Festival in response to backlash over a scheduled \u201cDrag Kids\u201d show where children as young as 11 are set to perform on stage.\u00a0\u00a0 Zions Bank posted a statement to Twitter on Wednesday announcing it was \u201cunaware of the event\u2019s activities involving children\/minors\u201d and decided &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636221,"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-1636219","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\/1636219","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}