After weeks of buzz and ramping up of rhetoric, the first-ever Drag King/Queen story hour was held at a Wasilla bookstore without incident this past weekend.
Store owner Taylor Jordan said people began leaving negative comments and reviews on the store’s websites out of opposition, but she’s not one to dispute a person’s right to free speech.
When Black Birch Books announced a drag storytime event, it put owner Taylor Jordan and her business squarely in the middle of a culture war playing out in Alaska and across America. She’s fine with that.