BREAKING: Boise Pride “Postpones” Controversial LGBT “Drag Kids” Event After Loss of Major Sponsors — Organizers Double Down on Child Drag Queens
After major sponsors pulled out from the Boise Pride event set to take place September 9 through the 11th, Boise Pride has postponed the controversial “Child Drag Show” that was set to be held on the 11th.
Statement from Boise Pride: pic.twitter.com/0A7iGyZyfr
— Boise Pride (@boisepride) September 8, 2022
Major sponsors, such as the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Zions Bank, and Idaho Power were not informed that there would be male children scantily dressed in woman’s clothing dancing on stage for adults.
Sponsors began to pull their support from the event after leaning there were going to be children dancing on stage in front of adults.
The Idaho GOP Chairman, Dorothy Moon, issued multiple statements, pressuring sponsors to drop off of the event, and for voters to pressure their legislatures.
BREAKING: Idaho GOP Chairman – Dorothy Moon closes her Wells Fargo bank account over Boise Child Drag Queen Sponsorship
“I’m not going to support companies or large corporations that are going to support these kinds of events that hurt our kids” pic.twitter.com/pHYXfRoA47
— Idaho Tribune (@IdahoTribune) September 8, 2022
Event organizers continue to defend child drag queens, and repeated their support for them multiple times in their announcement.
Residents are not happy and continue to call for the event to be cancelled completely.
You should actually cancel it.. stay away from our kids!!
— Ryan Slater (@BigSlates0317) September 9, 2022
Too little, too late.
We aren’t backing down until you cancel the entire event, and never EVER attempt to do this in Idaho ever again.
— ID Freedom Fighters (@FightForIdaho) September 8, 2022
Cancel it
— Musculus (@xMusculus) September 8, 2022
Should never have been a possibility in the first place.
Drag is not for kids.— Emrys (@ConservLiberty7) September 8, 2022
At least one legislature, Representative Tammy Nichols, suggested organizers of the event would be guilty of multiple crimes if children were performing in or in the presence of sexually obscene actions.
The Boise Pride event is set to be held as scheduled, with many children under the age of 18 to be present for numerous drag queen performances, and other adult activities.
