At the first Boise Pride Festivals roughly three decades ago, Joseph Kibbe and his friends had to hide their faces and were greeted by protesters holding nooses.
Volunteers help set up for the three-day Boise Pride Festival on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 in Boise, Idaho. Organizers of the festival have been subjected to intense political pushback from the Idaho GOP and conservative groups in part because of a"Drag Kids" performance scheduled for Sunday. – When Joseph Kibbe attended the first Boise Pride Festival in 1989, he and about two dozen other participants wore paper bags over their heads to hide their faces from potentially violent onlookers.
The event garnered national attention from far-right websites and podcasts, and by Tuesday organizers realized this wasn't the “normal” amount of opposition, said festival president Michael Dale. But the political maelstrom was growing more intense by the hour, and five kids were stuck in the middle. Riley Burrows, a full-time drag entertainer from Boise who was co-producing the Drag Kids event, began getting death threats on social media.
Her daughter's first performance was in 2019, in the rural Idaho town of Emmett. She loved it, Innocent said.
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