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This is a really apt analysis of the Drag Queen Frenzy. I would add two more reasons for the recent push of drag queens into children's spaces:

Firstly, drag queens desperately seek validation for their lifestyle and who better than impressionable children that cheer them on, completely clueless about what is going on?

Secondly, and most importantly, many (not all, but many) of these men are nurturing dangerous fetishes about children, either a fetish about "being motherly towards children" (the recent "breastfeeding" trend comes to mind, or them putting kids or their laps between their fake breasts) or an even worse fetish, i.e. they are pedophiles. As you point out, their outfits are highly sexualized and they enjoy being with children in these sexualized outfits (I've never heard about drag queens reading at, say, retirement homes). It's profoundly disturbing, disgusting and wrong. They can do whatever they like in their private lives, I don't care, but leave the kids out of it.

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Hi! I'm quite a bit younger than you, but even when I was reaching my teen years in the early 2010's, every gay organization - esp. those tasked with supporting the youth - was captured by trans interests. It was at a gay youth center in Princeton, my refuge from a homophobic family, church, and high school, where the idea that I was actually trans was first planted into my head.

It's funny, how the integration that your generation won came at the cost of the gay kids with unsupportive families my generation and younger.

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