A government-run drag queen dance party for high school kids has set off outrage among parents in an affluent seacoast New England community.
Newburyport Mayor Sean Reardon did not return phone calls from the Epoch Times about the event titled “Over the Rainbow.”
However, Reardon tweeted on Friday that “the event has been grossly mischaracterized by a handful of bad faith actors, who are calling it things it is not.”
Newburyport City Council Bruce Vogel called those opposed to it “viciously intolerant” telling one parent in an email “you should move to a community that supports your intolerant views.”
That parent, Laurie Kench, is among dozens of parents who sent emails to The Epoch Times and posted on Facebook and Twitter expressing their outrage over the event.
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