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Drag queen Jadein Black (Instagram\/jadeinblack1)<\/p>\n
A city council in Michigan<\/a> has voted to cut a drag queen<\/a> story hour from its Pride<\/a> festival line-up.<\/p>\n The council for Madison Heights called a special meeting on 1 June to discuss whether or not it would be appropriate to host the drag queen story time event at a local park. According to WXYZ<\/a>, the meeting saw some council members call the event \u201cvulgar\u201d and \u201covertly sexual\u201d.<\/p>\n The story time was originally set to be part of the town\u2019s Arts and Pride Festival line-up at Civic Center Park on 7 June. The council ultimately voted 4-3 to cancel the event.<\/p>\n Jennifer Nagle, a member of the Madison Heights Arts Board and the Arts and Pride Planning Committee, said that the board had been planning the festival for five months.<\/p>\n She also shared that the booked drag performer had been carefully vetted, and that no one on the council raised concerns about them in the lead-up to the event.<\/p>\n Nagle said that every element had been pre-approved, including the book the queen was going to read and the outfit they were set to wear, which featured a dress that highlighted autism awareness.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was the first year we had the budget to book a drag performer and this was apparently far too much for some people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The drag performer in question was Jadein Black, a K-12 teacher who often performs at family-friendly reading events like the story hour.<\/p>\n Following the news, Black took to Instagram to attempt to find a new venue so they could still help the children of Madison Heights mark this year\u2019s Pride.<\/p>\n