Drag Queen Story Time Canceled On Overseas U.S Air Force Base.

After a Republican lawmaker demanded the performance be withdrawn, an overseas US Air Force Base canceled a children’s storytime hour program featuring a drag queen. After Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on May 26 pushing him to reject what he called “public-funded propaganda,” the Ramstein US Air Force Base in Germany canceled the program originally scheduled for June 2 dubbed “Drag Queen Story Time.” “I encourage you to cancel this politically controversial event as soon as possible, and to take appropriate disciplinary action against everyone involved in facilitating this terrible misuse of government funds to place youngsters in a sexualized setting,” Rubio writes. The event, which was set to take place at the military base’s Ramstein Library and feature drag queen Stacey Teed, was supposed to commemorate June as “pride month.” The now-deleted event…

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