A San Diego-area parent accused her local school board of being “groomers and activist pimps” after it invited the community to a “queer” Halloween party featuring a “family friendly” drag queen show.
The Encinitas Union School District removed a flier promoting the Oct. 29 “Boo Bash” event after reportedly deciding it did “not meeting district approval criteria” — but festering anger led dozens of parents to protest outside Tuesday’s meeting as mom Brittany Mayer tore into officials.
The Saturday block party set for San Diego’s LGBT stronghold in the Hillcrest neighborhood touts itself as “the queerfest free Halloween party for youth and families,” and is sponsored by Align Surgical Associates, a San Francisco gender reassignment surgery center, and Rich’s Nightclub, a popular gay nightclub.
The racy party wasn’t hosted or endorsed by the public school district, but it was included on Peachjar, an “optional information hub containing community events and opportunities for families in the district,” education officials told KGTV.
Mayer posted a clip of her fiery diatribe at the board meeting.
“I just want to know what it is that makes a drag show family friendly?” Mayer sarcastically asked the board, footage she posted of her blistering rant showed.
“What is it about a grown man costumed in a sparkly bra with augmented boobs busting out and wearing a miniskirt barely covering his twerking ass with duck tape on his front while spreading his fish-netted legs as he writhes on the ground, grinding his groin next to a minor, family friendly?” she demanded before demanding an apology.
“While we have a culture with a massive problem with child porn and child sex trafficking, you, a little school district board of adults made the decision to feature an event to hypersexualize your children,” Mayer raged.
“You all played the activist pimp for Align Surgical center and for a 21 plus gay bar,” she insisted. “It makes you groomers and activist pimps and we won’t have those sitting on a school board that oversees the education of our children.”
The issue — which wasn’t on the board’s agenda — reportedly galvanized a group of parents to hire a lawyer to determine how the event became intertwined with the district in the first place.
Carrie Prejean Boller, a conservative activist who yanked the two kids she shares with former pro-quarterback Kyle Boller from the district over its mask mandate last year, joined the protest.
“Our message is very clear. We don’t want strip shows, we don’t want drag shows, and definitely not … inviting the parents and kids in our district,” she reportedly said.
Attemtps by the former Miss California USA winner — stripped of her title after speaking out against gay marriage at Donald Trump’s Miss USA pageant in 2009 — to reach a settlement with the pageant were thwarted by her appearance in an “extremely graphic” porno movie, according to TMZ.
Justin Ried, a candidate for school board who has children in the district, walked a thin line when describing his stance.
“We certainly want to be an inclusive community and support groups of all kinds, but the question is where do we draw the line?” he reportedly said. “At what point do we think well, maybe drag shows shouldn’t be promoted to our kindergarten through 6th families is that something that would be suitable for somebody who is 5 to 10 years old, maybe not. We should know how those decisions are being arrived at.”
Meanwhile, San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer gave the event a full-throated endorsement and said she’ll bring her 3-year-old son.
“The parents in my home school district (Encinitas Union) protesting the Halloween Drag Show should be ashamed of themselves for pushing hate and intolerance on all of us,” the Democrat tweeted Wednesday.
“THIS KIND OF BIGOTRY HAS NO PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY,” she wrote.
Despite the opposition in the small beach city 25 miles north of San Diego, the show will go on as scheduled, organizers reportedly said.