On Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 4:02:56 PM UTC-5, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/31/so-excited-emails-show-local-
> librarians-recruiting-drag-performers-for-kids/
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> Emails from librarians who brought cross-dressing performers to
> Republican-leaning Saint Louis suburbs this summer illustrate how easy it
> is for a few public employees to hijack tax-funded resources to promote
> sexual behaviors to children.
>
> Emails obtained by The Federalist show just a few local librarians in
> Collinsville and Glen Carbon, Illinois, working with other librarians to
> use their public positions to promote personal causes. The Collinsville
> and Glen Carbon Centennial public libraries this summer featured “drag
> queen storytime” events on June 3, 7, and 21 to promote homosexual “Pride
> Month.”
>
> National surveys show the profession is overwhelmingly white and female —
> 87 and 81 percent, respectively, in a 2014 American Library Association
> (ALA) survey. That’s the same demographic becoming Democrats’ most
> significant voting bloc and often the most likely to push identity
> politics, often for personal psychological reasons.
>
> While the ALA recently urged librarians whose communities don’t want
> public institutions to push sexual information on kids to “sneak” LGBT
> materials in, these librarians wanted to go further. They wanted more than
> a Pride Month display that merely puts sex books at toddlers’ eye level.
> They wanted drag shows for kids.
>
> Librarians All-In for Exposing Kids
> The obtained emails indicate professional librarians’ networks
> enthusiastically assisted with creating and promoting these events.
> February 2022 emails The Federalist obtained through an open-records
> request in June show Glen Carbon youth librarian Aimee Villet asking Saint
> Louis librarians to recommend drag performers to hire: “[W]ould love to
> offer a Drag Queen storytime at our library,” Villet wrote.
>
> The emails show Villet also wrote seeking drag performer names from
> Library Director Ashley Stewart in nearby Caseyville, Illinois, which
> featured a drag performance last year.
>
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> The response Stewart sent back wasn’t shown in the records returned, but a
> follow-up from Villet was. It shows the librarians expected negative
> feedback from local taxpayers but wouldn’t allow it to affect their plans.
>
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> “LGBTQIA+ programming for kids always leads to complaints,” Villet
> acknowledged. But, as she and Collinsville children’s librarian Sam Camero
> agreed in other emails, they were “prepared for hard conversations,” as
> Villet put it to Camero on May 18.
>
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> Villet ultimately obtained a link to drag performer Maxi Glamour’s contact
> page from Saint Louis Public Library Youth Services Manager Joe Monahan,
> the emails show. The performer’s IMDB page says he also goes by Max
> Wright. Villet booked Wright for two events in the Glen Carbon Centennial
> Library this summer — one for children and one for adults only.
>
> “We want to do something special this year [for Pride Month] beyond our
> usual displays and passive programs,” Villet told Wright.
>
> Glen Carbon Library Director Christine Gerrish told The Federalist the
> library paid Wright $300 for the two events.
>
> ‘So Excited’
> The emails show multiple librarians expressing enthusiasm and anticipation
> for Wright’s drag performance.
>
> “I was so excited when Aimee brought up the idea to have you come to our
> library,” Glen Carbon librarian Betsye Stinson wrote on March 8 to the
> drag performer. She suggested that his adults-only event at the Glen
> Carbon library promote activist causes by sharing “more about the history
> of Drag in STL [Saint Louis], hearing about your personal interest, and
> providing insight on how to be a better ally and how to support and uplift
> marginalized QTPOC members in our community.”
>
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> The like-minded librarians eagerly plotted their 2022 LGBT programming and
> especially the drag storytime together, according to the emails.
> Librarians from different towns eagerly offered to help promote each
> others’ LGBT events and offered emotional as well as strategic support for
> the community backlash they all expected.
>
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> The librarians also coordinated on responding to community objections to
> the events once they were announced, the emails show. The executive
> director of Collinsville’s public libraries, Kyla Waltermire, reached out
> to nearby Glen Carbon Library Director Christine Gerrish after local
> Republican politician Kurt Prenzler objected to their drag events on his
> email list. They decided not to publicly respond.
>
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> Drag Spreads One Suburb Over
> In Collinsville, Waltermire started preparing for her library’s separate
> summer drag performance in February, the emails show. Waltermire uses the
> salutation “Mx” and specifies the pronouns “she/her” in her email
> signature. Collinsville is another Republican-leaning suburb of Saint
> Louis.
>
> On Valentine’s Day, Waltermire also emailed Caseyville library director
> Stewart. In 2021, Caseyville featured a drag storytime for kids by a
> cross-dresser with the stage name Chasity Valentino. In the emails, the
> two discuss how to “coordinate” and “cross promote” the drag programming.
>
> “I’d like to pick your brain about what you learned from Caseyville’s
> experience – what to plan for, how to respond to critics, etc,” Waltermire
> wrote Stewart.
>
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> Some of the Caseyville librarians “are members of the LGBTQ+ community and
> they would love to help in ANY way with flyers, materials, book
> recommendations, resources, community partners, etc.,” Stewart wrote
> Gerrish. “…As a director, please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you
> begin to receive negative feedback and would like some assistance and go-
> to responses.”
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> Stewart.jpg>
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> Thanks to the recommendations from Caseyville’s Stewart, Collinsville also
> featured Valentino. Valentino was initially scheduled for an in-person
> performance in Collinsville but ultimately decided to read virtually,
> alleging concerns about safety once his performance became known in the
> local community.
>
> More Public Employees Help Out
> The emails also show how LGBT clubs in local public schools function as
> political outposts to help recruit volunteers and audience members for
> sexually charged events such as drag storytime.
>
> On May 6, Waltermire wrote special education teacher Cathy Kulupka, the
> gay-straight club sponsor at Collinsville High School, to say, “Based on
> how a similar event at the Caseyville Public Library was received last
> year, we are anticipating protesters” at their June 3 drag show. “Would
> the GSA be able to support this program by attending the storytime and/or
> by assisting at the library’s entrances to welcome and direct families to
> the storytime?”
>
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> Kulupka wrote back less than an hour later, “Absolutely!”
>
> “Let me talk to my students more and see, but I have mentioned it and they
> are down…I will prep them on how to behave and to not react to
> protesters…we can meet and discuss details further. Sidenote: I am super
> excited about this!” Kulupka wrote Waltermire on May 9 after further back
> and forth.
>
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> Camero, whose work email signature tells people to use plural, third-
> person pronouns for her as well as the gender-queer salutation “Mx,”
> promoted Collinsville’s drag storytime to multiple organizations and
> contacts. In one email, Camero refers to the event as “my Drag Queen Story
> Time program” and comments that she is “really excited, and I want to get
> the word out!”
>
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> Another email from Camero to a librarian about a half hour away at Hayner
> Public Library in Alton, Illinois, invites the fellow librarian to the
> event as a personal matter.
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> “I hope they’ll be able to get enough info and will see the support and be
> able to convince their director to let them try a DQST too,” Camero writes
> in another email redacted so as to obscure what other librarians she
> appears to be encouraging to host more drag performances.
>
> Camero also emailed local LGBT organizations to recruit attendees,
> enabling the librarians to tell library trustees and others including The
> Federalist that there was a high interest in the program as measured by
> very strong attendance compared to other library programs. The emails show
> she reached out both to the Metro Trans Umbrella Group of Saint Louis,
> which partners with abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood to
> distribute disability-producing opposite-sex hormones, and the Southwest
> Illinois chapter of TransParentUSA to ask their members to come to
> Collinsville’s library drag performance. Both organizations are located
> outside Collinsville.
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> Collinsville-Childrens-Librarian-Asks-Trannies-to-Come-1-1024x626.jpg>
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> While a number of the public employees involved appear to have personal
> motivations for pushing these performances, they are a divisive issue even
> among people who support LGBT behaviors. Prenzler told The Federalist that
> his friend, a gay man who married his partner two years ago, signed a
> local referendum that successfully put the drag shows onto November’s
> ballots in Glen Carbon: “His point was, this is not for kids and it brings
> shame on the gay community.”
>
> Two lesbians joined several other locals this summer in going door to door
> to collect signatures to put the referendum on ballots, Prenzler, chairman
> of surrounding Madison County, also said: “Both of them thought this was
> outrageous, it was inappropriate.” While collecting some 200 signatures
> for the initiative, Prenzler said he noticed that the majority of those
> who answered their doors had not heard about the local drag events even
> though they were extremely controversial locally.
>
> Emails Show Multiple Complaints from Locals
> The Federalist asked for all Glen Carbon library records containing the
> terms “Maxi Glamour,” “Max Wright,” “drag queen,” “and/or the dates ‘June
> 7’ and ‘June 21’ over the last six months; and any other reasonably
> available library records from the last six months that contain the terms
> ‘Maxi Glamour’ and/or ‘Max Wright.’” Gerrish, Glen Carbon’s library
> director, is responsible for collecting and disclosing the records
> requested by the public about her own and her staff’s activities.
>
> It appears from the records that she allowed library staff to select the
> records disclosed from their work email accounts in response to the
> requested open-records search. This setup effectively allows public
> employees to oversee legally mandated disclosures of their own activities,
> a clear conflict of interest.
>
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> A Federalist review of the records Gerrish returned also shows both
> multiple complaints and positive notes about the drag show from locals.
> Some complaints include pictures of Wright’s social media pages where he
> displays a sex toy, nudity, and illicit drug use as well as making profane
> comments about Christianity.
>
> “Unfortunately, after researching this person further, I discovered there
> is also a video on Maxi Glamour’s social media of Maxi bathing while
> completely nude with genitalia exposed. This post was from January 2022,”
> wrote one alarmed community member to Villet in May.
>
> When The Federalist asked Gerrish what her line would be for deciding
> whether specific content was too risqué for sponsoring with public
> resources, she responded, “Personally I generally go by PG-13 and milder.
> This performer is providing that tomorrow night and much milder for the
> children.”
>
> Trustees Refuse to Stop Drag Shows for Kids
> The emails also show members of both libraries’ boards of trustees
> discussing community reactions to the event. In Collinsville, Waltermire
> sent trustees a list of talking points about the event in response to
> community backlash.
>
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> CollinsvilleLibrarian-To-Trustees-May-26.jpg>
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> An email from Collinsville library board Vice President Laura Gottschalk
> to Waltermire includes screenshots from the Collinsville mayor’s wife,
> Diane Miller, expressing concerns about the drag show: “I cannot fathom
> you would have voted to allow this,” Miller texts Gottschalk. Later in the
> conversation, Miller appears to relent a bit, texting Gottschalk, “I
> agree. Parents should decide on this.”
>
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> Glen Carbon Board Vice President Marcella Starck and Trustee Kevin Tellor
> forwarded to Gerrish both positive and negative emails they received from
> local residents, and Gerrish did the same with the entire board, at their
> request.
>
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> The emails also show the trustees were aware before the program occurred
> of the drag performer’s public pornographic materials available to anyone
> who searched for his stage name. Tellor forwarded to Gerrish the below
> email that included explicit photos backing up the community member’s
> claims.
>
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> Regardless of this foreknowledge, the Glen Carbon Centennial Library
> trustees did not step in to stop the in-person drag programs. The
> Collinsville trustees also allowed the drag performer to read to children
> from their library’s online platform and be promoted under their library’s
> name all over town and the Saint Louis suburbs.
>
> Two of Glen Carbon’s seven library trustees are up for re-election in
> April 2023. Four of the seven Collinsville library trustees are also.
>
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