'Are you a boy or a girl'? Drag Queen Story Hour riles the right, but delights kids

Across the country drag queens are reading stories, and teaching tolerance, to kids – but the events have come under fire from some conservatives

It was the Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Francisco public library and six-year-old James Mendenhall intended to get right to the bottom of things.

“Are you a boy or a girl?” he asked the 6ft 2in story reader, who was wearing a maroon satin gown, a hot pink frock, silver high-heeled pumps and false eyelashes. The drag queen, who goes by the name Honey Mahogany, leaned her delicately-braided blond wig towards him and paused for effect.

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