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My soul is in the midst of lions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
whose tongues are sharp swords.
Psalm 57:4
Children’s Drag Queen Dance Party Draws Outrage in New England
"A government-run drag queen dance party for high school kids has set off outrage among parents in an affluent seacoast New England community.
Newburyport Mayor Sean Reardon did not return phone calls
from the Epoch Times about the event titled “Over the Rainbow.”
Newburyport City Council Bruce Vogel called those opposed to it
“viciously intolerant”
telling one parent in an email
“you should move to a community that supports your intolerant views.”
“Local municipalities should not be endorsing adult sexualized entertainment for minors,”
MFI director of communications and research Mary Ellen Siegler told The Epoch Times,
“this is crazy to be promoting someone in the adult entertainment business as a fun time for kids.”
The drag queen providing the entertainment for the 9th grade to 12th grade dance party
goes by the name Miz Diamond Wigfall.
Wigfall, a biological male,
performs at a variety of venues locally and nationally.
He also posts videos of himself performing in drag.
Wigfall also has several partially nude pictures of himself posted on his Instagram page
including completely nude
and closeup photos of his buttocks.
The Epoch Times also reached out to Andrea Egmont,
Director of the Newburyport Youth Services (NYS),
which is co-sponsoring the event with the North Shore Alliance for LGBTQ+ Youth.
She called complaints about the dance as “homophic rhetoric,”
and that it has mistakenly labeled a drag show,
when it is just a dance
with a drag queen DJ “playing music
and running some games.”
“NYS is not in any way a private organization,
it’s a city department just like DPS/DPW, our Planning Office, Parks Department and so-on,”
Newburyport City Councilor Omar Zeid told The Epoch Times,
“its employees are city employees.
All of the funds it collects are subject to public scrutiny.”
Kench told The Epoch she finds it questionable that NYS didn’t post the event on its website and instead decided to announce it on its instagram account.
“The agenda seems obvious,” she said,
“to keep parents in the dark while they exploit and groom our children.”
In support of the event, Newburyport City Councilor Ed Cameron
wrote in a statement
that “it was concerning that the right wing ‘culture wars’ are coming to Newburyport.”
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