Popular children's attraction in Durham features drag queen for 'Pride' event
Popular children's attraction in Durham features drag queen for 'Pride' event
The Durham Museum of Life & Science's "Prism" event celebrates "Pride in STEM."
The Durham Museum of Life & Science, a popular educational and hands-on family and school field trip destination in North Carolina, has announced a line-up that includes a drag queen as part of its June 26 “Prism: A Celebration of Pride in STEM.”
The agenda of events on the organization’s website includes a Pride Parade, “gender-affirming care” information, “make your own pronoun button,” meeting the Durham Police Department’s LGBTQ Liason, as well as “Info and activities with the Pauli Murray Center, the Duke Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the LGTBQ Center of Durham.”
The list of events also includes Durham Drag Queen Stormie Daie as the “Super Scientist in The Lab!”
Daie, a member of “The House of Coxx,” is the same drag queen who performed at the Apex Pride festival even after the town and its mayor received objections from local residents. Local independent multi-media journalist Stephen Horn captured one of Daie’s performances:
Horn also reported that The House of Coxx shows usually have an 18+ advisory warning, yet no such warning accompanied the notice of the Apex event which had many young children in the audience.
An undated advertisement (below) for The House of Coxx appearing at a Durham club called The Pinhook features Daie holding what appears to be a book or paper with text that reads, “F**K Donald Trump.”
Members of The House of Coxx were also involved in a drag queen story hour at a charter school in Durham in 2019.
In 2021, Daie performed in front of small children at a drag queen story hour in Chapel Hill, according to a report by the progressive newspaper INDYWEEK.
According to its website, the Museum of Life & Science is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit partly funded through public money via the City of Durham.
“The Museum earns over 83% of our annual operating budget through membership, admission, fees, and contributions,” the center’s website says.
General admission to the museum is $23 for adults and $18 for kids ages three to 12.
The website states “We are also grateful for ongoing public support from Durham County. Through this public/private partnership, the Museum will continue to serve our region and our State with distinctive and dynamic learning experiences.”