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	Podcast:		Audiograph
	Episode:		Audiograph's Sound of the Week: Drag Queen Story Hour
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2017-07-06 19:03:46
	Description:		Walking into the San Francisco Library in Bernal Heights on a Saturday afternoon, I see it’s packed with excited, brightly clad kids and caregivers here for story time. Instead of a librarian, they’re circled around a tall figure. Wearing a black sequined gown, stilettos, and a platinum blonde wig, and seated with a book in her long painted nails, it's Yves St. Croissant, aka Sean Santos, one of San Francisco’s beloved Drag Queens. “My only friend in the whole wide world is a hippo named boo boo butt," reads St. Croissant. "Yay!” Welcome to the Drag Queen Story Hour, where San Francisco’s Queens take the show to a different kind of stage, to perform story time. Jenny Proenza says she and her five-year-old daughter are enjoying the show. “It’s so nice to see a little slice of fabulous in Bernal Heights, so I couldn’t resist the opportunity to pop in,” she says. She appreciates the discussion about gender, fashion-choices, and identity, “which is something we talk about at home a lot as
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