Texas venue cancels drag show performances after alleged threats: 'A safety measure'

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The Starlighter, a live music venue in San Antonio, Texas, has canceled any remaining drag show toy drives following backlash to footage that emerged showing a child in attendance.

earlier this week following the backlash, explaining how an inundation of threats has led it to cancel any additional all-ages drag show toy drives this year.

"The Starlighter's goal has always been to provide a safe all ages space for entertainment," the establishment said in the statement."Unfortunately, we're now being made to feel unsafe in our own space. We're being bullied and threatened by both online and comments, reviews [and] tweets. Journalist Tayler Hansen recorded an all-ages drag show in Roanoke, Texas, earlier this year attended by armed protesters standing guard outside.

"For the safety of our queen staff and patrons we're canceling all of the drag events for the remainder of the year. This was a decision made between the queens and the Starlighter owners as a safety measure [and] nothing more," the venue's statement added.was never left unattended or in any danger," the venue further explained."They are the child of our food vendor that night who was right outside the door.

Drag queen "Pickle" reads from a book during the Drag Queen Story Hour program at the West Valley Regional Branch Library in Los Angeles on July 26, 2019.

 

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It wouldn't be safe to do that with my kids...

AS CRAZY AS THIS IS,,OK HERES ONE FOR YAH,,LETS TAKE YOUR SON TO THE LOCAL TOPLESS BAR AND SIT HIM DOWN GET A FEW LAP DANCES AND HAVE A BEER,,NAH,,THATS NOT HAPPENING EITHIER

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