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    'Are you a boy or a girl'? Drag Queen Story Hour riles the right, but delights kids

    Across the country drag queens are reading stories, and teaching tolerance, to kids – but the events have come under fire from some conservatives
    by Erin McCormick in San Francisco Jun 13, 2017 4 minutes
    Honey Mahogany, a drag queen in San Francisco, reads stories to children at a local Drag Queen Story Hour event at the city’s public library. Photograph: Erin McCormick for the Guardian

    It was the Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Francisco public library and six-year-old James Mendenhall intended to get right to the bottom of things.

    “Are you a boy or a girl?” he asked the 6ft 2in story reader, who was wearing a maroon satin gown, a hot pink frock, silver high-heeled pumps and false eyelashes. The drag queen, who goes by the name Honey Mahogany, leaned her delicately-braided blond wig towards him and paused for effect.

    “Well, I guess I was born a boy,” she replied. “But I like to dress like a girl. It’s for fun.”

    For the 175 or so children and parents who turned out for the event last weekend at San Francisco’s and sporadically in bookstores and classrooms around the country – offers a mix of gay pride and kid-friendly entertainment.

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