![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as a Daily Mail investigation has exposed, behind these seemingly innocuous statements lies an altogether more sinister backdrop. 'We can change the world book by book!' he proclaims, adding in a worrying sentence for one keen to promote greater literacy: 'We are built out of the dreams of children, let these dreams be fabulous.' The protesters have been met with equally robust opposition from a pro-LGBT crowd - frequently masked and wearing dark glasses - waving rainbow flags and shouting that the protesters are 'homophobic' and' fascists'.Īt first glance, this could be seen as another overblown chapter of the culture wars, a storm in a teacup in which pearl-clutching traditionalists are agog about nothing more harmful than a panto dame reading story books to children.Īfter all, spectacles such as the television hit RuPaul's Drag Race and the hit coming-of-age musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie, which follows the story of a teenage boy as he pursues his dream of becoming a drag queen, have brought the act firmly into the mainstream.Īnd certainly, on his Drag Queen Story Hour UK website, Samuel emphasises his focus on promoting nothing more sinister than literacy and childhood aspirations. Waving placards with slogans such as 'Let kids be kids' and 'Stop grooming kids', on one occasion a group tried - unsuccessfully - to perform a citizen's arrest on Samuel as he left a library in a Bristol suburb. Samuel's tour is called Drag Queen Story Hour UK, part of a new phenomenon which gained greater public prominence last week when it emerged that angry protesters had gathered at venues on Samuel's 70-strong tour demanding the event be called off. What may be more startling is that at the moment, Samuel - performing as his flamboyant alter ego 'Aida H Dee', a play on the neurological disorder ADHD - is undertaking a nationwide tour on which he takes over 'storytime' at our local libraries.Ĭlad in a tight-fitting sequinned rainbow costume - through which, on occasions, the outline of his genitalia can clearly be seen - he reads his self-authored books on 'diversity' - including a book called It's Snot A Problem about lesbian hedgehogs - to an audience comprised largely of toddlers, all paid for by local taxpayers through their council tax. Many of them not mysteriously removed as those of Samuel's have been in recent months. There are thousands, if not millions, of similar posts all over the internet. In a world caught in an ongoing culture war over sex, gender and identity, none of this material, dismaying though it may be, arguably comes as a surprise. Pictured: Protesters in favour of the Drag Queen Story Hour at Welling Library The protesters have been met with equally robust opposition from a pro-LGBT crowd - frequently masked and wearing dark glasses - waving rainbow flags and shouting that the protesters are 'homophobic' and' fascists'. Other questionable images he has posted include a picture of a pubescent boy and an older man accompanied by a comment remarking that gay clubs are 'wild' as you can 'meet both types and be told both are 23'. In a similarly unpleasant - and now-deleted - offering last November, Samuel threatened to publish the personal information of a female critic and as recently as April, he aimed an abusive threat at 'Terfs' - the unflattering slur hurled by hardcore trans-rights activists against those they believe are trying to curtail their right to identify as their chosen gender simply by declaring it out loud. In another from July 2020, he proclaimed that 'love has no age', a phrase once adopted by the now-defunct campaigning organisation Paedophile Information Exchange in its revolting crusade to lower the age of sexual consent so that adults could have sex with children. In one such post, dated April 2019, the 27-year-old from Cardiff made a crude joke about an orgy, which is definitely not repeatable in a family newspaper. A drag queen called Sab Samuel used to post all manner of eye-opening pictures and outlandish comments on social media. ![]()
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