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Once upon a time, a group of drag queens went throughout the land sharing stories of hope and inclusion to children and their families.
Many people loved the drag queens and the stories. But some villains who thought drag queens should not exist started threatening the drag queens, the families who chose to come to hear the stories, and even the people who ran the venues where the stories were told.
The villains also called on others to hate the drag queens and encouraged them to show up and disrupt the story times, sometimes even with violence.