Sukrit Goswami, director of the Haverford Township Free Library, shared how he and his staff prepared for the event as a part of the session “Controversial Speaker Planned for Your Library Event? Things to Consider” on June 24 at the ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. Now, even though the program is over, the library is still receiving around 50 emails per day asking them not to hold it. So many people came to the program, the drag queen held a second storytime immediately after her session. This year, the program received national media attention and, along with that attention, hundreds of complaints and a crowd of protesters and counterprotesters. Its first drag storytime, last summer, received two complaints total. Last Saturday, the Haverford Township Free Library, in the suburbs of Philadelphia, hosted a drag queen storytime for the second time. Sukrit Goswami, director of Haverford Township Free Library, describes his library's experience hosting a drag queen storytime that drew large crowds and protests.
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