Deputies said the incident happened around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library on the Paseo Grande. Alameda County Sheriff Lt. Ray Kelly said the team entered the library during an event called Drag Queen Story Time. Kyle Chu, also known as drag queen Panda Dulce, hosted a story hour for preschoolers to celebrate Pride Month. “I always received death threats, hate messages because I did drag queen story hour. This time I felt very close to the violence,” Dulce said in an interview with KPIX 5 on Sunday. The Panda Dulce, which appeared at the time of the story in the San Lorenzo Public Library on June 11, 2022. Panda Dulce The sheriff’s Facebook page said: “The men were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent behavior that frightens people for their safety. Deputies responded on stage and managed to de-escalate the situation.” Dulce said eight to 10 men came in to stop the event. There was a small group of preschoolers and their parents. Dulce was dressed in San Francisco Giants clothes. “It was extremely loud. It was like a cacophony of voices just shouting at each other, making fun of me, calling me a best man, a pedophile, a trans and ‘it’. Are you bringing your children into it?” I did not feel safe because one of “He was wearing an AK-47 shirt and he wrote, ‘Kill your local pedophile,’” Dulce recalls. Mobile phone video of one of the men allegedly interrupting the story of the drag queen at the San Lorenzo Public Library on June 11, 2022. CBS Dulce said she eventually went to a back room to avoid an immediate collision and hoped it would escalate the situation. “Fear, confusion, alarm. I remember a child looked at his mom and said, ‘What’ s going on? Why do they raise their voices? “Who are these people?” Dulce recalls. There is no agenda here other than being able to accurately reflect the diversity of our world. “And just because a person’s worldview cannot be tolerated does not mean that we should deprive children of it.” Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputies responded by saying that the men were most likely part of the Proud Boys, a right-wing hate group. In addition to possible hate crime charges, authorities said they could be charged with child molestation and harassment. “They want us to disappear. They want us not to exist so that they do not have to face their own suffering with the idea that there are people different from them in the world. But guess what? There are people different from you in the world. And we will stay here. And “We will continue to do what we do. And we will be visible about it,” Dulce said.
Accompanied by men from the Library of San Lorenzo, Dulce completed her book reading event. He said he would not let hatred win. Drag Queen Story Hour describes the program as “exactly what it sounds like – drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and playfulness of childhood sex and gives children shine, “Positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In places like this, children can see people who defy strict gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present themselves as they please, where clothing is real.” Da Lin contributed to the report.