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Minneapolis — Next month, several Minnesota Chick-fil-A’s will be hosting Drag Queen Story Hour, which is being billed as a family-friendly event; and get this they’ve agreed to do it on Sundays but not until after 1 p.m. so everybody gets a chance to go to church!
The story hour will be held at multiple participating Chick-fil-A for the entire month of December, on each and every Sunday from 1:00-2:30 p.m..
One of the books the drag queens will read is “Red, A Crayon’s Story,” by Michael Ball. The plot is described online as “a blue crayon mistakenly labeled as ‘red’ suffers an identity crisis and colors ‘zeeself’ orange and has the ‘crayon dr’ rip of all of its paper off for ever in this picture book by the New York Times–bestselling author.”
Other books to be read by the drag queens will be chosen from a list of 10.
Merriam-webster.com defines a drag queen as “a usually gay man who dresses as a woman and performs as an entertainer especially to caricature stereotypically vampish women.”
Chick-fil-A’s Twitter web page has a notice promoting the event saying:
Being in drag is an artistic and creative expression of oneself, and is not limited to gender or orientation. We at Chick-fil-A have learned from our mistakes and wish to help these brave and stunning minds influence other young, confused, and impressionable children all across the nation to be who they think they want to be. Why be Peter Pan when you can be Paula Pan?
By crafting programs that create a joyful and engaging environment for everyone, we want to show our community that we welcome all people, from all backgrounds, and difference is not something to be feared. And really, who doesn’t love our sandwiches?
After the stories are read, children will be invited to make crafts at the front corner of Chick-fil-A with Crystal and Mimi who will be teaching the kids to construct an ‘Ahnel beaded necklace — beaded small beads to big’ which they say they can teach the kids to use at their next showing at the ‘hop house’.
The Hop House as they describe it is an underground Performing Arts Center for out-of-work male actors. Tickets are normally $15 a piece but children who come unaccompanied get in for free.
“If you boil the program down into a nutshell, the program is a character dressed up in a costume with makeup who is reading stories to kids with positive themes and delicious chicken,” said Chick-fil-A’s very own Dan Cathy, who said that he asked the queens to dress modestly.
“Some of those themes are be true to yourself, love those who are different, walking in their shoes, **children will have an opportunity to try high heels** inclusion, and being a good friend. Those are the kind of stories we are talking about,” Cathy concluded.
