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They’re “intended to capture children’s imagination and help children explore their gender fluidity through glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models,” according to the organization’s website. These story hours, where performers in drag read to children from 3 to 8 years old, first started in 2015 in San Francisco and have since spread to libraries and schools across the United States. This year so far has seen the New York City Council spending $80,000 on Drag Story Hour, more than triple the amount spent last year. The group in May alone made $46,000 in public funds for its appearances at schools, festivals, and libraries. Since the beginning of this year, Drag Story Hour has organized 49 appearances in 34 elementary, middle, and high schools across the city. New York City and state combined have paid drag performers more than $200,000 for appearances in New York City public schools since 2018, according to a report.ĭrag Story Hour NYC, an organization previously known as Drag Queen Story Hour NYC, has received $50,000 from the state’s Council on the Arts, as well as $157,000 from New York City’s departments of Education, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Community Development, and Transportation, according to records obtained by the New York Post.