{"id":256730,"date":"2022-07-29T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256730"},"modified":"2022-07-30T06:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:57:47","slug":"protestors-vows-to-target-drag-queen-story-hours-in-bristol-leeds-and-oxford-after-police-had-to-escort-performer-from-a-reading-library-after-group-stormed-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256730","title":{"rendered":"Protestors vow to target Drag Queen Story Hours in Bristol, Leeds and Oxford after police had to escort performer from a Reading library after group stormed event"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Police were forced to escort a drag queen to safety after library protest Monday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thames Valley Police were called to a protest of around 25 people at 9:30am\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Protestors stormed a &#8216;Story Hour&#8217; event run for three to 11-year-old children<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Outside library they shouted at &#8216;woke&#8217; parents as they walked into ticketed event\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mr Samuel said he was overwhelmed with support from locals who &#8216;came along and gave their support &#8216;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kaya Terry \u2013 Mail Online July 27, 2022<\/h1>\n<p>Protesters who stormed a library drag queen &#8216;Story Hour&#8217; have vowed to target future performances and hinted at further action by declaring the &#8216;first phase&#8217; was done.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous video supplied to MailOnline showed a demonstrator telling supporters he would be at other events on the tour.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed:\u00a0&#8216;I will be at the Oxford ones, the Bristol ones and hopefully I will get to the Leeds one. Those are the ones I am hoping to commit to by swapping days this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have done the first phase, well done everyone. Top marks for everyone involved.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It came after police were forced to escort a drag queen to safety after a group of protestors stormed the &#8216;Story Hour&#8217; event run for\u00a0three to 11-year-old children at a library.<\/p>\n<p>Thames Valley Police were called to a protest of around 25 people outside a library in Abbey Square, Reading, at around 9.30am on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators\u00a0claimed they had turned up to &#8216;protect children&#8217; and shouted at &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/woke-culture\/index.html\"><strong>woke<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; parents who are &#8216;probably teaching their children that there are 100 genders&#8217; as they walked inside the ticket-only event.<\/p>\n<p>Drag Queen Story Hour UK is a project run by 27-year-old Sab Samuel who performs as\u00a0Aida H Dee, wearing multicoloured sequinned outfits with a red wig and heavy make-up.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Samuel is touring Britain across the summer, with almost 70 events in 20 areas of the UK, including\u00a0Bristol, Cornwall, Oxfordshire and Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>The group says the sessions &#8216;teach inclusivity&#8217; and encourage children to &#8216;get fabulous&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11052687\/Police-forced-escort-Drag-Queen-safety-protesters-storm-childrens-event.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police had to escort Drag Queen Story Hour host to safety after angry parents stormed the event in protest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":256732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256756,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256730\/revisions\/256756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}