“My favorite part was how everyone was saying they don’t want people going there, and then she ends up having to do the storytime three times,” said 10-year-old Ketchikan resident Kinyon Clevenger.
Guest reader Luna, left, acts out a line from the book “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish” alongside Amie Toepfer, the Ketchikan Public Library’s head of children’s services, on June 17, 2022.
“The city should not be promoting or advocating for events where the goal is to normalize gender fluidity in young children,” said City Council Member Riley Gass at a meeting on Thursday, the day before the storytime event was scheduled. He asked the council to prevent the reading from going forward.
“If you’re that worried that seeing a bit of glitter’s going to change your child sexually, then yes, you should probably stay home,” she said. “I’m not going to support this because I think it’s very discriminatory. And I really am embarrassed to be sitting here, knowing that we have to deal with this.”
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