A bomb threat at a drag story hour couldn’t stop a crowd from showing up to spread love

Author: Molly Sprayregen

A Drag Queen Story Hour at the public library in Somerville, Massachusetts was canceled last weekend after someone called in a bomb threat.

“Whenever hate arrives in Somerville or Medford or Boston, love and joy always come out 10-fold to kind of drown it out, and that’s what happened here,” counterprotestor Christian Krenek told the network.

Somerville City Council President Ben Ewen-Campen called the protest and subsequent cancellation of the event “completely outrageous.”

“We can’t let things like this take away our ability to just live our lives and be the people we are,” he told the Boston Globe. “It’s incredibly infuriating for people to go out of their way just to ruin a bunch of families’ Saturday.”

Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne. also condemned the anti-LGBTQ+ protestors in a statement to WCVB: “Hate has no place here in Somerville. When any one of us is hurt, we’re all hurt, so it’s just not acceptable.”

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Author: Molly Sprayregen