{"id":1936001,"date":"2023-05-23T03:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-to-spend-83k-on-training-featuring-drag-queen-story-hour-director\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T03:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T07:42:01","slug":"washington-state-to-spend-83k-on-training-featuring-drag-queen-story-hour-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-to-spend-83k-on-training-featuring-drag-queen-story-hour-director\/","title":{"rendered":"WA State to spend $83K on training with Drag Queen Story Hour Director."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwashington-state-to-spend-83k-on-training-featuring-drag-queen-story-hour-director%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=1936001&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--><h2>Washington State to Spend $83,000 on Diversity Training Featuring Drag Queen Story Hour Director<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington DEI Empowerment Conference, set to take place every Wednesday in June, will focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">diversity<\/a>, anti-racism, and equity. The conference will cost an estimated $83,000, with $48,000 going towards speaker fees, $17,923 towards accessibility services, and $17,440 towards technology for the virtual conference.<\/p>\n<h3>Drag Queen Story Hour Director to Deliver Keynote Speech<\/h3>\n<p>The conference will feature a keynote speech titled &#8220;Drag Story Hour and Fireside Chat&#8221; by Jonathan Hamilt, the Executive Director of Drag Queen Story Hour. The speech will defend the performance of drag in front of children and will discuss the importance of LGBTQAI+ family programming. Hamilt has a personal goal of offering affirming and accepting programming for kids. However, Drag Queen Story Hour has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-to-spend-83k-on-training-featuring-drag-queen-story-hour-director\/\" title=\"WA State to spend K on training with Drag Queen Story Hour Director.\">caught bringing registered sex offenders<\/a> into close contact with children at their events on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Talks at the Conference<\/h3>\n<p>The conference will also include talks on incorporating DEIB and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-posts-worst-ratings-since-2007-despite-homebound-audience\/\" title=\"Super Bowl Posts Worst Ratings Since 2007 Despite Homebound Audience\">anti-racism work<\/a> into recruitment, led by Lisa Grund and Tangi Tash, and a session called &#8220;The Elephant in the Room&#8221; discussing America&#8217;s &#8220;original and most persistent sin, racism,&#8221; led by Phillip Jacobs. The conference aims to help state employees learn more about the lived experiences and challenges of Washingtonians who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-push-taxpayer-funded-abortions-overseas\/\" title=\"Dems Push Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Overseas\">face systemic barriers<\/a>, exclusion from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-now-signed-52-executive-orders-and-actions-in-first-20-days-in-office\/\" title=\"Biden Has Now Signed 52 Executive Orders And Actions In First 20 Days In Office\">accessing government services<\/a>, harm from policies, or discrimination in the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state plans to spend $83,000 on employee diversity training with the Director of Drag Queen Story Hour. The Washington DEI Empowerment Conference will feature talks on diversity, anti-racism, and equity every Wednesday in June. Deputy Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce, Hayden Michaels, will also speak at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":1936002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[26644,6350,7069,7889,7291,6319,4178,4213],"class_list":["post-1936001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-83k","tag-director","tag-drag","tag-hour","tag-queen","tag-spend","tag-story","tag-training"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936001","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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}