A District of Columbia collection aimed to hire a move wife with a criminal history to do at children’s pride-themed Drag Story Hours.
A staff member at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library solicited drag queen Latrice Royale, otherwise known as Timothy Wilcots, to sing and dance in drag before children, according to an email obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project ( The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news outlet ).
According to that May 17, 2023 email, the library employee was under the impression that the LGBTQ organization, the Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ), would pay the drag queen’s travel fees and$ 10, 000 performance fee. In a later email, Brandon Hooks, the HRC’s Brandon Hooks, shared that the final cost of wickels was too expensive for the occasion ( neither Hooks nor the HRC responded to requests for comment ).
” Before I ping her boss again, I just want to make sure HRC would be able to handle 10k cost plus, hotel, ground, and heat. Please let me know if this is possible”, wrote the school’s children service manager, Paula Langsam. The collection did not immediately target The Daily Signal’s comments.
Hooks and Amy Oden of the HRC were both addressed in that message. The senders content collection read:” Pride Family Day at MLK Update”.
Wilcots, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, was originally arrested and incarcerated for custody of tramadol, drug, cannabis, and joy,  , court documents show.
Since then, Wilcots has described his time in prison in a number of internet discussions.
Despite his legal context, the school’s involvement in Wilcots raises questions about whether drag queen story hour organizers are failing to check the adults who dress in drag and study LGBTQ books to children at drag queen story hours.
Wilcots is a natural man who stands at six legs, four feet tall, weighing about 400 pounds. When dolled up and wearing shoes, one press document says, Wilcots” towers near to seven foot tall”. He has over a million social media followers, describes himself as “large and in command,” “big, thick, strong, bold, and beautiful,” and is lawfully married to a person.
The standard Drag Queen Story Hour site boasts of about 50 independently operated chapters in the United States, including in New York City, D.C., and Chicago, as well as two worldwide chapters in Tokyo and Berlin.
According to the , Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website, the events are designed to be about 45 minutes long for children aged 3 to 8 years old and intended to capture children’s imagination and help children explore their gender fluidity through “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models”.
For example, The Daily Signal previously reported that drag queen “VV Majesty” led a Capital Pride Alliance drag queen story hour in Washington, D. C. where “VV Majesty” read a book about a trans- identifying little boy to toddlers.
According to the drag queen, the drag queen wore a “fairy rose princess” gown with a black bodice and an exposed red bra. A three-horned crown with red paper roses on it, a long, black wig, and a large, glittery necklace were also present.
Critics on both sides of the aisle have expressed strong concerns about lasciviously dressed men, often in corsets, heels, wigs, and heavy makeup, reading books about gender ideology to very young children.
News reports about the Milwaukee judge’s arrest on child pornography charges add to these concerns. That judge was the former head of a company that was organizing Drag Queen Story Hour.
In December 2021, Brett Blomme received a nine-year prison sentence followed by 20 years of supervised release for producing child pornography that depicts young boys ‘ abuse. District Judge James Peterson referred to the child pornography that Blomme was distributing as” the worst of the worst” at his sentencing.
Drag queens who perform for children at story hours make a point about their intentions.
” I’m a nonviolent offender, not a child molester, or a pedophile”, Wilcotts reportedly said in an interview with NewNowNext. ” I was n’t standing in front of schools targeting kids” . ,
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