A staple in Chicago for years, drag events for kids targeted by far-right groups
CHICAGO — In a blue dress and wig, drag queen Muffy Fishbasket — Miss Muffy when performing for kids — opened the children’s book “My Lucky Day,” as a child yelled, “I read it!” “No way, don’t tell anyone the ending,” Miss Muffy replied. “It’s a secret.” Miss Muffy narrated the story at Andersonville’s Midsommarfest in June, eliciting laughs and giggles from the crowd of children and adults, ...
by Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune
Jul 27, 2022
3 minutes
CHICAGO — In a blue dress and wig, drag queen Muffy Fishbasket — Miss Muffy when performing for kids — opened the children’s book “My Lucky Day,” as a child yelled, “I read it!”
“No way, don’t tell anyone the ending,” Miss Muffy replied. “It’s a secret.”
Miss Muffy narrated the story at Andersonville’s Midsommarfest in June, eliciting laughs and giggles from the crowd of children and adults, according to a video on social media.
Kid-friendly drag performances and story hours have been held in Chicago and some suburbs
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