Wed May 18, 2022 – 9:08 pm EDT
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – A children’s festival taking place this weekend in Toronto is slated to feature drag queens reading to children and a “queer songbook orchestra” concert for kids.
Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre is hosting a “multidisciplinary festival for children” this weekend called “JUNIOR,” funded in part by taxpayer dollars through the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund. The festival, which is marketed to kids “ages 4–14,” features a “Storytime” event in which men dressed in drag read to children and a “queer” concert that promotes “the 2SLGBTQ+ community.”
According to a description of “Storytime,” “Drag performers Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé” will read “culturally diverse books” and play music while “encouraging everyone to see our differences as beautiful.”
In a description of the “Queer Songbook Orchestra Kids” event, “artists from the 2SLGBTQ+ community” weave together story and song as an “interactive exploration of identity and acceptance, intended to nurture understanding and inspire discussion and expression to support of how we feel inside.”
While the event has not been heavily publicized, one reader told LifeSiteNews that it was “extremely shocking and disappointing” to come across an advertisement that “features a
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