Gay NYC Council Member Perfectly Shames GOP Colleague For Calling LGBTQ+ People 'Groomers'

\u201cNYC is spending taxpayer dollars to bring adult drag queens into elementary schools across the city to perform for small children. This is unacceptable and grotesque, and follows a deeply disturbing national pattern. I was elected to hold the line on major issues like this.\u201d

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@Councilwoman Vickie Paladino) 1655138091

\u201cI have thus far allocated MILLIONS of dollars in funding for district schools for repairs, upgrades, and new programs because I am a major advocate for education. This funding will be reconsidered if a school is found to have participated in these activities.\u201d

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@Councilwoman Vickie Paladino) 1655138091

\u201cProgressives may have no problem with child grooming and sexualization, but I do. This will not happen on my watch. Kids deserve a quality education free from political manipulation and sexual content. And that's what the kids in District 19 will get.\u201d

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@Councilwoman Vickie Paladino) 1655138091

\u201cThe term \u2018groomer\u2019 is absolutely nauseating. \u2018Grooming\u2019 is what child molesters and sexual predators do. And the term was used repeatedly by Council Member Vicky Paladino to describe my community. @VickieforNYC, we need you to acknowledge this is wrong & tell others to stop also.\u201d

— Erik Bottcher (@Erik Bottcher) 1655420703

\u201cOur office proudly funded Drag Story Hour this year and you better believe we'll be funding it again next year.\u201d

— Shahana Hanif \ud83e\uddbe (@Shahana Hanif \ud83e\uddbe) 1655394934

\u201cThis person is a disgrace to New York City.\u201d

— Lunar Dysphoria (@Lunar Dysphoria) 1655440213

\u201cThis is incredibly bigoted, and is also a huge red flag for our trans brothers and sisters who are already being targeted by this kind of rhetoric. The amount of homophobic, anti-trans, and anti-queer talking points that have again moved mainstream is not something we can ignore.\u201d

— Liza Schwartzwald (@Liza Schwartzwald) 1655400770

\u201cYour homophobic ass is going to lose your seat\u201d

— Aria Blooms \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Aria Blooms \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1655403653

\u201cThe only thing I see in this tweet that is a bad example to children is your bigotry.\u201d

— Monae Priolenau For State Committee AD56 (@Monae Priolenau For State Committee AD56) 1655416394

\u201cOn top of the vile & bigoted hate-mongering and the appalling cruelty to colleagues here, it\u2019s also a violation of the New York City human rights law to discriminate with public funds based on gender identity or expression.\n\nI\u2019ll be asking @NYCCHR to investigate.\u201d

— Brad Lander (@Brad Lander) 1655432308

\u201cAnother fake Christian spreading hate and encouraging violence and fear. @VickieforNYC\u201d

— Theodore (@Theodore) 1655469306

\u201cRepublican NYC councilwoman who won by <400 votes now using her position to threaten schools who bring in \u201cdegenerate\u201d people to read books to kids.\u201d

— Ben Bradley (he/him/his) (@Ben Bradley (he/him/his)) 1655558616