The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly in Southeast Alaska plans to hear a proposal that would cut library funding over a storytime event hosted by a drag queen
KETCHIKAN - The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly plans to hear a proposal that would cut library funding over a storytime event hosted by a drag queen.
Harrington, in a written sponsor statement, said the goal of the proposal is to “stop library programs aimed at preschool and primary school aged children related to sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, thus leaving that discussion if needed to the parents. It is also hoped that it will let the kids be kids for a few more years.”
The Ketchikan City Council last week rejected, 5-2, a motion to cancel a drag storytime event at the public library., saying: “When kids see various individuals leading healthy lives, regardless of whether they’re LGBTQ+ or even disabled - they see that anything is possible, that you can be whatever you choose to be.”
The proposal before the borough assembly seeks to end a contract with the city of Ketchikan that funds about 38% of the library’s operating budget through a property tax.“We’d really have to think very hard about what it would be possible to do with a 38% budget cut,” Tully said.
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