Find out about upcoming events at https://www.dragstoryhour.org/ Drag Story Hour is just what it sounds like: local drag artists reading stories to children. Drag Story Hour (DSH) was created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions, under the leadership of Juli Delgado Lopera and Virgie Tovar, in San Francisco in 2015. It started out as drag queens reading stories to children in libraries and grew into a global phenomenon! DSH now offers literary and creative programming for kids and teens of all ages led by drag queens, kings, and creatures all over the world. DSH is a global network of local organizations, each of which is independently managed and funded. Drag Story Hour captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity in childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly q***r role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, and where dress-up is real. The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/kids-attend-drag-queen-story-hour
Cosmopolitan:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a62476/drag-queen-story-hour-kids/
Vice:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a62476/drag-queen-story-hour-kids/
SF Gate:
http://www.sfgate.com/life/article/Drag-Queen-Story-Hour-San-Francisco-Public-Library-6856221.php
Want to bring a Drag Queen Story Hour to your local library, bookstore, school, or community center? Send us a message! Here’s what one librarian had to say about the program:
"Drag [Queen] Story Hour is a wonderful program that helps to bring acceptance of diversity to our communities. At the most recent DQSH at The Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library, the presenter, Black Benatar, read 'My Princess Boy,' by Cheryl Kilodavis. When she finished reading, she asked the children (about 40 of them), “If you met a Princess Boy, would you make fun of him?" and all the children said, "No!" Then she asked them if they would ask him to play with them, and they all said, "Yes!" I had tears in my eyes, it was so beautiful and moving. This program is more important than ever."
— Barbara Warden
Children's Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
