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Call drag queens ‘pantomime dames’ to fool protestors, librarians told

More than 100 librarians attended the training earlier this month in how to handle the fierce row with parents over a country-wide summer tour by Drag Queen Story Hour UK (DQSH).

The webinar on “managing controversial events” was organised by the national body Libraries Connected, formerly the Society of Chief Librarians, and only for library staff.

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In the forum, held on July 20, librarians from across Britain shared “war-game” strategies for dealing with “really distressing” drag criticism and being “bombarded by complaints letters”.

One speaker suggested the protesters could be fooled. “We’ve always said pantomime dame because we don’t want protestors outside our building,” Ian Anstice, a librarian from Cheshire West & Chester, told the seminar.

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Mr Anstice, who also runs the Public Libraries News website, showed attendees a picture of a man at a drag story event in the US wearing a “kill your local paedophile” T-shirt with an assault rifle logo. He said “this sort of thing has got its followers and adherents here in Britain” and is “pretty brutal”.