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New York Attorney General Letitia James Hosts and Celebrates ‘Drag Story Hour Read-a-Thon’

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New York Attorney General Letitia James over the weekend hosted and promoted a Drag Queen “Read-a-Thon” for families at the LGBT Community Center, designed to “condemn hate and combat rampant disinformation,” according to her office.

The event took place at the LGBT Community Center in Greenwich Village over the weekend. According to James’s office, “nearly 200” guests attended the event, which was described as a “day of family fun” as drag queens read stories to attendees, which included children.

“It’s time for Drag Story Hour! We’re at @LGBTCenterNYC with some amazing Drag Story Hour NYC storytellers, New York families, elected officials, and community leaders to kick off our Drag Story Hour read-a-thon!” James celebrated, providing a couple snapshots of the event. Several young children can be seen in the audience:

Other elected officials joined the event, including “Assemblymembers Tony Simone and Grace Lee, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Council Members Erik Bottcher, Shekar Krishnan, and Crystal Hudson,” per the press release, which also asserted that the event was in response to a “rise in homophobic protests and fearmongering surrounding Drag Story Hour, and disgraceful harassment and vitriol directed at the LGBTQ+ community, advocates, and leaders such as New York City Council Members Erik Bottcher and Shekar Krishnan.”

“With this event, Attorney General James and her colleagues and co-sponsors are ensuring New Yorkers know that everyone — regardless of sexuality, gender, race, or socioeconomic status — is celebrated, protected, and welcomed in New York,” it reads.

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Notably, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Public Library are listed as co-sponsors of the event.

This would not be the first time the public, taxpayer-funded libraries of New York have been involved in controversial events. The Brooklyn Public library, for example, reportedly hosted a drag queen makeup tutorial for teenagers last summer. That same library has shared sexually explicit books with teenagers as well.

Notably, one Drag Queen Story Hour event in Houston, Texas, brought a sex offender in close proximity to children. In 2019, the Houston Public Library admitted that one of the storytellers at its “Drag Queen Story Hour” was a registered sex offender posing as a drag queen. Nevertheless, New York officials are celebrating their weekend event.

“The recent rise in anti-LGBTQ+ protests, rhetoric, and policies has left New Yorkers — myself included — devastated and disappointed,” James said, reiterating her pride in hosting the event open to young, malleable children.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) also celebrated the drag event, asserting that drag queens are advancing what he described as a “love of diversity.” Adams also admitted that their goal is not to just educate children, but to mold them into accepting these leftist narratives.

“The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent,” he said. “I thank Attorney General James for hosting this event that clearly says New York City is the place where you can be yourself and love who you want.”

While crime is running rampant in the city, James seemed to ignore the critiques.

“I don’t know a lot of children harmed by drag read-a-thon. But I know a lot of children harmed by guns, so why don’t you focus on that?” she said.

James Lindsay: Goal of Drag Queen Story Hour Is to “Separate” Children from Their Parents

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Police and Teachers Fear Losing Jobs Over State-Backed Transgenderism Push

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Teachers and members of the police force in Ireland are now afraid of losing their jobs amid the state’s increasing support of transgenderism.

Police officers and teachers in Ireland are now reportedly concerned that they may lose their jobs if they refuse to obey the tenets of transgenderism, multiple reports in the country have suggested.

It comes as senior officials within the country’s government began to give militant support for the movement, with cabinet officials calling for the ideology to be taught as fact within the country’s school system.

According to a report by the Sunday Times, teachers are now afraid they may lose their teaching positions if they refuse to comply with the changing social climate, with some expressing fear of ending up like Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher who ended up in jail last year after a row about him refusing to use an allegedly transgender pupil’s preferred pronouns escalated.

“I do what I am told, not because I believe that it is the right thing to do but because I don’t want to lose my job or end up in court like Enoch Burke,” one anonymous individual who teaches languages at an ostensibly Catholic school, reportedly told the publication.

Members of An Garda Síochána — the Irish police force — now also appear to be in a similar situation, with Gript media reporting that senior figures within the force have now ordered staff and law enforcement officers within the organisation to use a person’s preferred name and pronouns or face punishment.

The new requirement was reportedly outlined in a HR directive circulated within the organisation titled “Gender Identity in the Workplace”, which warned that obeying transgender ideology was now “mandatory”, and that “strict compliance” was now being required by its leadership.

This has prompted both fear and anger within the force’s lower ranks, with many within the organisation “furious” that the measures were passed without consultation, but also fearful that any transgressions against them will destroy their lives.

“If I speak up publicly, I’ll lose friends, family, get called far-right, end up in a dole queue or worse,” one insider within the force is said to have told Gript, who also reportedly claimed that they are “far from the only one in work who feels this way”.

Gript also reports that under the new directive, Garda staff who are “transitioning” but are “not in receipt of a Gender Recognition Certificate” will still be able to use the changing rooms and bathrooms of their preferred gender, something that has allegedly sparked fear amongst women in the organisation.

“The women I work with are already concerned about the section on bathrooms/changing rooms,” another anonymous source from inside the organisation is said to have told Gript Media.

However, this revelation is not the story which has caused the most public concern for women’s safety in Ireland this week, with it also being revealed that a male individual convicted of threatening to rape and murder their own mother is to be housed in the women’s section of an Irish prison.

Gabrielle Alejandro Gentile, who now goes by the name Barbie Kardashian, reportedly described how they wanted to “rape” their mother with a screwdriver, saying that “I am a woman and women rape using objects”.

“I would want her to bleed out after death after a number of hours, by putting objects into her vagina, pouring boiling water into that area,” the individual, who has previously been convicted of sexual assault, reportedly said.

Kardashian is now reportedly serving her sentence in the women’s section of Limerick Prison, with the Sunday Times reporting that their male genitalia remains “intact”.

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Christina Ricci: I Was Threatened with a Lawsuit for Wanting Boundaries in a Sex Scene

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Actress Christina Ricci claimed Wednesday that she was once threatened with a lawsuit because she was reluctant to shoot a sex scene in the way her film producers desired.

After being asked by The View co-host Sarah Haines about the differences between her own experiences in Hollywood and what she has seen other young actresses deal with, Ricci revealed she was once threatened with a lawsuit because she wanted to set “boundaries” for the shoot.

“It’s really great. Us older ladies talk about it all the time. It’s amazing to see that they don’t necessarily have to go through the things we had to go through. They’re able to say, ‘I don’t want to do this sex scene,’ ‘I’m not going to be naked,’” Ricci said.

“They can set boundaries for themselves that we were never allowed to do,” the Yellowjackets star added. “Someone threatened to sue me once because I didn’t want to do this sex scene in a certain way. It’s really changed and it’s great to see.”

This was not Ricci’s first time mentioning her experience of being threatened with a lawsuit over her objection to a sex scene.

Last summer, in an interview with Variety, the actress said, “I remember once on a movie saying I wasn’t comfortable with something and they threatened to sue me if I didn’t do it. That would never happen now.”

The type of behavior that Ricci described is typical of Hollywood, an industry that relishes lecturing everyday Americans while members of that same industry engage in debauchery.

Last week, Netflix’s Stranger Things star Grace Van Dien revealed that she quit acting after a producer on an unnamed movie suggested she join him for a threesome.

Last summer, actress Mena Suvari said that being pulled into the sex abuse culture of Hollywood helped her nail her role in the 1999 film, American Beauty.

In 2021, actress Keira Knightley noted that every woman she knows has been sexually harassed in some way, which even include threats and violence.

In 2017, three decades’ worth of sexual misconduct allegations against the now-disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein were brought to the light. And over the years, many in Hollywood appeared to have known about Weinstein’s behavior but said nothing about it.

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Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Trailer Gets More than 1 Million Dislikes in One Week, Left Blames ‘MAGA Racists’

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The first full trailer for Disney’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid is proving to be massively unpopular, garnering more than 1 million “dislikes” on YouTube less than a week after its unveiling Sunday during the Oscars.

Left-wing activists, including Disney star Josh Gad, are blaming “MAGA racists” for the overwhelmingly negative reaction while neglecting to mention that similar trashings have befallen other remakes, including last year’s live-action Pinnochio and 2016’s female-centric Ghostbusters, both of which had predominantly white casts.

The Little Mermaid trailer has accumulated 1.1 million “dislikes” on YouTube as of Friday afternoon, while the number of “likes” stands at just 196,000, according to a Google Chrome extension that unblocks the “dislikes” counter.

The teaser trailer, which was released six months ago, has received 3.5 million “dislikes,” versus 1.2 million “likes.”

Set to debut in cinemas May 26, the live-action The Little Mermaid features an ethnically diverse cast, with actress Halle Bailey, who is black, in the title role and Melissa McCarthy, who is white, as Ursula, the sea witch. The two actresses appeared onstage at the Oscars on Sunday to present the trailer in what felt like a glorified Disney junket.

The left is trying to blame Trump supporters for the trailer’s negative reception, claiming without evidence that “MAGA racists” have launched a “dislike” campaign against the movie.

Actor Josh Gad, who starred in another Disney live-action remake Beauty and the Beast, helped to spread the smear to his more than 660,000 Twitter followers.

As Breitbart News reported, Disney’s teaser for the recent live-action remake of Pinnochio received a similar online thrashing from the public, with “dislikes” outstripping “likes” by more than tenfold.

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Ireland’s Gay St. Patrick’s Day: A State’s Quest for Transgenderism

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For Ireland’s progressive government, transgenderism and other “LGBTQ+” talking points have become central elements within modern St Patrick’s day celebrations.

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone. It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So says, William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest artistic minds my country has ever produced. The line comes from a poem titled “September 1913”, a work that mourns the degradation of Ireland as the island slowly but surely became wealthier. At a time when many living on the island were finally starting to see some sense of financial prosperity, Yeats felt that they were becoming less and less like the heroic souls who came before them, and perhaps more and more like their then-fellow subjects living in Britain.

If Yeats found the Irish of the early 20th century of questionable character, he would surely find those of the early 21st completely unrecognisable. Though Ireland is now an independent nation-state, its politicians have largely lost interest in the national question.

The political class of the legendary poet’s period largely occupied itself with the independence of Ireland, fighting tooth and nail in order to establish a sovereign republic with complete control of every corner of the island.

Such political ambitions have long since been cast aside though, with the modern Irish elite more concerned with pushing progressive values onto the rest of the world, whether they like it or not. It has used its minor position on the world stage to push left-wing ideology, bolstering those who support progressivism and lashing out at those who don’t, frequently using its very identity as a currency to achieve these aims.

Like almost every other aspect of Irish culture, heritage and history, St Patrick’s Day has become just another weapon with which the island’s political class can further this progressive agenda.

Ireland’s current progressive obsession is that of transgenderism. Ministers across all of the government parties have adopted the view that the tenants of gender ideology must be taught as fact within the country’s elementary and high schools.

Understandably, this has not only greatly upset many parents in the country, but a number of schooling and religious associations on the island to boot. Amid talk that children in Ireland would soon be told that they would be able to change gender, the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA) — a body representing 89 per cent of the country’s elementary schools — came out to denounce the plan, arguing that there was “no scientific or medical consensus” for such gender ideology.

The group was soon joined by the Irish Muslim Council, which also attacked the measures for being “not appropriate” for school children, backing the claim that there is “a lack of scientific consensus” about the issue.

None of this appears to have dissuaded politicians in the country though, with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, along with a host of other ministers, coming out to vocally back teaching transgenderism to children in response to the CPSMA’s criticisms.

“Trans people exist, they’ve always existed, and I think it makes more sense in schools to just inform children about the world around them,” Varadkar claimed in response to the widespread backlash against his agenda.

Meanwhile, sitting Minister for Justice Simon Harris insisted that the gender ideology was necessary as it was simply teaching kids about the “facts” and the “science”, despite multiple organisations saying that experts have yet to come to any scientific consensus on transgenderism.

Such a hardline progressive mentality — often buttressed by farfetched claims about “facts” and “science” — has well and truly leaked into Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Although authorities in the United States will likely be spared the most sanctimonious of the progressive preaching, with the issue of Brexit and Northern Ireland instead expected to take centre stage this year, the island itself is nevertheless due to celebrate an LGBTQ+ St Patrick’s Day.

Progressive ideology has been front and centre in the state’s plans for Paddy’s Day. Official Ireland has been forthright in describing the holiday as being about promoting “diversity” and “inclusivity” rather than any notion of religion or nationhood, with the government rolling out drag queens and foreign dance groups.

The state even went so far as to host an LGBTQ+ St Patrick’s festival on Thursday night, converting Collins Barracks — a former British military instillation in the country’s capital of Dublin — into a venue.

According to the official Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day website, the event starred drag queens, cabaret artists and “performers from across the LGBTQ+ community”. It even sported a progressive version of a céilí, Ireland’s traditional kind of dancing and folk music gathering that has been held in the country for hundreds of years.

Described as a gay-lee by the organisers, the event reportedly included, of course, an “army of drag performers”.

Pushing transgender politics on Ireland isn’t for just one day a year, however. With Paddy’s Day soon to be behind us, the government is already reportedly moving on other initiatives to promote left-wing causes.

Proving that nothing is sacred to those currently in power, the government has announced that it will even attempt to change the country’s constitution this year in the hopes that rewriting it will put it more in line with modern progressive ideals.

The document — admittedly a shadow of its original self due to previous government-sponsored meddling — has been deemed to be “outdated and sexist” by activists within state-funded NGOs. While there have been many parts that such state-funded non-state entities have balked over, the most offensive line in the document right now is the one mandating that the government must protect a woman’s ability to be a stay-at-home caregiver if she so choses. The government has now announced that a referendum will be held on removing this clause later this year.

Although the exact wording of the referendum has yet to be announced, many fear that the government will use the vote as an opportunity to remove the only use of the word “woman” in the entire legal document, a move that some have linked to the state’s pro-transgenderism push.

“It’s about gender confusion, and erasing the word ‘woman’ from the Constitution,” Irish Freedom Party President Hermann Kelly told Breitbart Europe at the time of the announcement, describing the move as “woke nonsense”.

Woke nonsense or not, however, the vote looks almost certain to succeed. A whole host of other government efforts to see the constitution changed to suit modern progressive ideals have succeeded without much of a fight, with there being no indication that things will be any different this time around.

That is not to say the country has grown completely passive over the last number of years. While for many, it did appear that Romantic Ireland had been dead for some years, early 2023 has seen the previously comatose nationalist scene sputter back into life. While attempts to challenge transgender ideology have yet to truly take hold in the country, resistance to mass migration grew to a fever pitch in the country over the space of just a few weeks, with the arrival of illegal migrants into the country going from a non-issue politically to a potential general election decider.

Sparked by state authorities trying to sneak a large number of non-Ukrainian migrants into a disused office in a working-class area, a widespread protest movement has erupted across the country, with large swathes of the general public in Ireland now expressing the belief that the state’s open borders approach to immigration simply is not working.

Politicians are now desperate to stamp the movement out, with many members of the ruling coalition advocating for planned hate speech laws to be rushed into force in the hopes of smothering attempts to resist mass immigration. Ireland’s president, Michael D. Higgins, described those protesting the arrival of thousands of migrants as “unforgivable“.

Higgins even went so far as to dedicate a large amount of his St Patrick’s Day address on Thursday to decrying the growth of “racism” and “poisonous xenophobia”, arguing that the Irish patron saint’s status as a foreign former slave makes him similar to today’s migrants.

Some officials appear eager to move beyond simple rhetorical attacks though, with politicians going so far as to suggest that attending the mass migration protests be made a criminal offence. Others have advocated for foreign migrants — both legal and illegal — to be given special protections from harsh words or criticism under Irish law in order to curb the working-class backlash against open borders.

To make matters worse, the ostensible opposition in the Irish parliament, Sinn Féin, has been all but absent from the scene when it comes to the issue of immigration, abandoning their hitherto working-class base to deal with the crisis as the party goes hunting for a piece of the progressive vote. So bad has the situation gotten that at many of the demonstrations against open borders, you will not be hard-pressed to find a placard emblazoned with the visage of party head Mary Lou McDonald with the caption “traitor” scribbled underneath it.

“Sinn Fein used to be a nationalist party opposed to the foreign occupation of Ireland. Their catch cry was once ‘Brits out’,” explained Kelly, who hails from the UK-controlled northern region of the country where the issue of Irish nationhood and independence remains central to this day.

“But the party has been transformed by Woke Leftism and a newfound love of the European Union so that it is now completely pro-mass immigration without restrictions,” he continued. “Its immigration policy is summed up as ‘Brits out, everybody else in’.”

With both the country’s government and opposition parties in lockstep regarding progressive politics, it is clear that left-wing ideology will continue to have hegemonic control of the country long after this St Patrick’s Day. While thankfully still a holiday that average families can enjoy, it is beyond doubt that the core state celebrations of the day are now fueled by a left-wing agenda fully bought into by the country’s political class which remains alien to the average Irish citizen.

As Europe drifts rightwards by the year, this almost certainly looks set to change. As a country, Ireland is always late to the party politically speaking. Society here adopted the tenants of progressivism far later than those in neighbouring western countries, and will likely be one of the last EU states to see populism truly start to rise as the coming decades come.

So, with all this being said, would Yeats’ assessment be correct when it comes to 21st-century Ireland? Is the nation lying there, festering, next to the long-lifeless bodies of dead Fenian revolutionaries?

Well, if not dead, it is comatose for now.

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