“We’re celebrating Pride Month at the Ramstein Library with Drag Queen Storytime!” Ramstein Air Force Base event details read. “Be sure to wear your brightest and most colorful outfits!”
QUICK FACTS:
- The U.S. Air Force is hosting ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ at Ramstein Air Base Library in Germany on June 2, National File reports.
- “The US Air Force is officially holding a drag queen story hour for children at their Ramstein AF Base Library. Really sick stuff,” according to a National File source. “My tax dollars are being used by the MILITARY to sexualize children.”
- The Facebook announcement posted by the Ramstein & Vogelweh Air Force Libraries page reads, “We’re celebrating Pride Month at the Ramstein Library with Drag Queen Storytime! Join us with special guest reader Stacey Teed! Be sure to wear your brightest and most colorful outfits!”
- One mom of a toddler, whose husband is stationed at the base and who often takes her child to the library for storytime, told The Post Millennial that she was “shocked to see the Ramstein Air Force Base Library plans to hold an official drag queen story hour for children.”
EVENT DETAILS:
- The Drag Queen Story Time will take place on Thursday, June 2 from 10:30–11:00 am, according to the Facebook post.
- The event will be held in building 409.
BACKGROUND:
- The library hosted a similar story hour event in 2021 that featured a reading from a woman dressed in male drag.
- A drag queen, historically, “is a person, usually male, who uses costuming and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes,” The Post Millennial notes.
