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BAKERY REFUSES TO BACK DOWN AFTER RECEIVING THREATS OVER FAMILY-FRIENDLY DRAG
PERFORMANCE

Maggie Baska July 23, 2022
SAVE FOR LATER

The UpRising Bakery and Cafe in Lake in the Hills, Illinois has been vandalised
and had faeces left at the door over a planned family-friendly drag event.
(YouTube/CBS Chicago)

An Illinois bakery will host a family-friendly drag show despite being
threatened, vandalised and sent a bag of faeces over the planned event.

UpRising Bakery and Cafe owner Corrina Sac told the Chicago Tribune that she
planned a child-friendly drag event complete with costumes, dancing, food and a
celestial theme. She described quickly getting backlash against the show because
it would be open to people of all ages, including children. 

Sac received numerous calls and emails from people voicing their concerns or
personally attacking her because of the drag event in Lake in the Hills,
Illinois. In another instance, a person left a sign on the bakery’s door
claiming “pedophiles work here”. 



Another person came into the store and spit into the bakery case. Sac even
discovered a bag of faeces was left at a door outside the venue.

Despite the threats and harassment, Sac planned to go ahead with the drag show
Saturday (23 July) and wanted to hold more in the future. She said the show,
which features well-known local performers, is “very, very family-friendly” with
no nudity or explicit content.

“The worse thing is a high kick, possibly, or someone doing the splits,” she
said. “That’s about it.”

Corrina Sac, owner of UpRising Bakery and Cafe, says the business received
threats because it is hosting a family-friendly drag event. (YouTube/CBS
Chicago)

Sac was shocked at the anti-LGBTQ+ hate being sent toward the bakery, but she
said it was important for “people who haven’t been exposed to this” to “learn
about it and be more accepting”.  



The Lake in the Hills police became involved after people called authorities
about the event. It investigated and found no violations, according to a news
release from the police department. 

It subsequently investigated threats to the bakery and expected there to be
protests as well as counter-protests at the drag event. The police stressed it
will be taking a “zero-tolerance approach for those individuals who choose to
attend with plans to engage in acts of violence or criminal activity”. 

Crys Squires, president of Woodstock Pride, told the Chicago Tribune that the
“whole community” has “really rallied around the bakery” after the onslaught of
anti-LGBTQ+ hate. 

Squires said the local area has come far in accepting the queer community in
recent years but still had so far to go as Woodstock Pride received some
backlash for hosted drag shows.

“I think one big takeaway from this whole thing is that while there is still
negativity and people who maybe do not support the LGBT community, there are
also a lot of people that do, and those people are standing up,” Squires said.



Carol White told WLS her grandson just came out as trans, and she wanted to
support him as well as businesses that openly advocate for the LGBTQ+
community. 

“I have a grandson who just came out as trans,” White said. “He’s 18, and I
support him and I support this business. We are gonna be regulars at this
restaurant.” 

Republican lawmakers and right-wing groups have increasingly targeted drag
performances in recent months. 

Several Republican politicians suggested legislation banning kids from
family-friendly drag events, and one Florida lawmaker argued it should be
a “felony” for parents to take their children to such performances. 

Several family-friendly drag events, including Drag Queen Story Hour
performances, have been targeted by right-wing protestors. (Erin Clark/The
Boston Globe via Getty)

A right-wing mob descended on a Texas event in June and shouted at families that
attended the event to “repent for [their] sins”. Some chanted “groomer” at those
gathered in support of the venue while others attended to push their way into
the bar. 


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A short while later, a group of alleged Proud Boys members stormed a Drag Queen
Story Hour event – aimed at pre-school children – at the San Lorenzo Library,
California on 11 June. Organisers said the men were shouting “homophobic and
transphobic slurs”, “yelling, screaming, inciting violent threats, [and]
traumatising children and their families”. 

LGBTQ+ advocates and allies used ABBA songs, chants, megaphones and other
cheerful music to drown out a hateful crowd of protestors outside a drag show in
July. 

Drag icon RuPaul described the wave of hate directed towards drag events as
a “diversion tactic” used by Republicans to “take the narrative away” from
pressing issues in the US – like gun control – and “scare people into thinking
about something else”.

“They have changed the narrative away from the gun debate into this drag queen
thing,” RuPaul said. “Y’all want to help your kids? Take away them guns, that
will help your kids!”

The Drag Race host continued: “Drag queens ain’t hurt nobody. You’re born naked,
and the rest is drag.”

 



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