{"id":24418,"date":"2023-08-04T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2023-08-04T17:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:57:02","slug":"tax-funded-ohio-group-sponsors-program-to-teach-children-how-to-be-drag-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/tax-funded-ohio-group-sponsors-program-to-teach-children-how-to-be-drag-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax-Funded Ohio Group Sponsors Program to Teach Children How to Be Drag Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheading\">An organization funded by Ohio taxpayers is sponsoring a tutorial program to teach children how to become drag queens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The Fairview, Ohio, Colors+ Youth Center is offering monthly programs to teach children how to become drag queens, according to the group\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The youth center is working in collaboration with Drag Queen Story Hour Cleveland to offer a Saturday event featuring a \u201cdrag performer reading an age-appropriate book with positive themes for LGBTQ+ youth highlighting inclusivity, creativity, and love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center employs drag performers including Sassy Sascha, Rhett Corvette, Veranda L\u2019Ni, and Zoey Zegai to read to children, the site adds.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the story hour, the center also hosts \u201cmonthly drag tutorials by a local drag performer who teaches the fundamentals of drag (makeup, costume design, and performance).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center also notes that the drag operation is funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Cuyahoga Arts and Culture is a taxpayer-funded organization that, according to its\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cacgrants.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">webpage<\/a>, \u201cis one of the largest local public funders for arts and culture in the nation, helping hundreds of organizations in Cuyahoga County connect millions of people to cultural experiences each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/31\/tax-funded-ohio-group-sponsors-program-teach-kids-drag-queens\/\">www.breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organization funded by Ohio taxpayers is sponsoring a tutorial program to teach children how to become drag queens. The Fairview, Ohio, Colors+ Youth Center is offering monthly programs to teach children how to become drag queens, according to the group\u2019s website. The youth center is working in collaboration with Drag Queen Story Hour Cleveland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/tax-funded-ohio-group-sponsors-program-to-teach-children-how-to-be-drag-queens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tax-Funded Ohio Group Sponsors Program to Teach Children How to Be Drag Queens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6lQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24419,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions\/24419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}