ARLINGTON, Va. – A Drag Story Hour function hosted by the Arlington, Va., a bomb threat sent by email to a gay bar and restaurant on Saturday, April 6, required parents and their children attending the event to leave the bar and park in its exterior outdoor seating area and parking lot pending a weapon-sniffing puppy from the authorities and a weapon-sniffing dog searched the area and discovered no bombs.
The disturbing message from an unidentified recipient, according to Freddie Lutz, proprietor of Freddie’s Beach Bar, was sent during his first Drag Story Hour occasion, which features a drag performer reading children’s stories to their parents, at the Crystal City area of South Arlington.
“We had a lot of community families with young children, young children, and one grandmother that,” according to Lutz. “It was a great attendance, and we had to push them all out to the rear parking lot,” he said. “And they waited, which I thanked them for until the coast was clear. Next, they entered again.”
At the time of the Drag Story Hour function, Lutz claimed that two protesters who were against the move function showed up outside Freddie’s on Saturday. He claimed that Tara Hoot, the move actor who ran the Drag Story Hour at Freddie’s, had previously been the target of bomb threats and protesters.
“So, we were a little bit prepared, or at least I guess you could say cognitively prepared for it,” Lutz said. “And confident enough, we got an email threatening the bar and even me professionally at my house, which was a little unsettling,” he said, adding that nothing was found at his local South Arlington home.
Arlington police released a short statement about the tragedy in response to an investigation from the Blade.
‘At about 11:15 a.m. officers were dispatched to a report of a bomb threat that had been sent to a business on April 6,” the speech states. Responding officers called the inhabitants, conducted a sweep of the building, and discovered no criminal activity at the restaurant as a result,” it states. The risk analysis is still pending.”
Hoot, who has been organizing Drag Story Hour activities in the D.C. C. up to eight of her past events have been targeted by angry protesters or weapon risks, although no weapons have ever been discovered at the places where the activities have taken place, according to the place for more than a year.
The two protesters at the Freddie’s occasion, a person and a girl, allegedly cited their religious beliefs as the reason they opposed the Drag Story Hour event, according to Hoot.
“They were spewing religious hate,” Hoot told the Blade. They were making a point of deceiving kids into bringing their children.”
Hoot claimed that she includes in the shows songs that will appeal to children and excerpts from children’s books like the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which explores bravery and other good styles. And then I give them rainbow ribbons and balloons, and we all start coloring up,” she said. “It’s only joy and love and joy.”
Drag Story Hour, a group that was founded in San Francisco in 2015, organized history hours events that have taken place in libraries, bookstores, and venues like restaurants and bars across the nation.
On their website, the organization states that kids can see people who defy stringent female restrictions and imagine a world where everyone can get their true selves.
