Members of the group Parasol Patrol successfully blocked extremists at drag queen events across the national capital region.

Members of the group Parasol Patrol successfully blocked extremists at drag queen events across the national capital region. Christopher Wiggins February 27 2023 11:23 AM EST

Within a week of the Proud Boys’ violent attack on supporters outside a Maryland Drag Queen Story Hour, two Washington, D.C.-area communities teamed up with their residents to protect kids from right-wing extremists.

Hundreds of supporters and dozens of Metropolitan Police officers gathered in Capitol Hill outside Crazy Aunt Helen’s, an LGBTQ+ eatery, where drag queen Tara Hoot was expected to read to children on Saturday morning as part of a Drag Queen Story Hour brunch.

On social media, there was a buzz about the Proud Boys — a white supremacist group with a history of disrupting similar events — trying to interfere with the bimonthly drag story hour brunch.

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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I kinda like the idea going on here with holding them up really high. It's like when animals make themselves look really big to spook other animals off.