‘Love has no age’ drag queen brought in to teach pupils

Safeguarding groups have accused secondary school of ‘failing’ after hosting a series of talks on queerness

A DRAG QUEEN who has previously posted on social media about “orgies” and said that “love has no age” has sparked a parent backlash after he was invited into a school.

Aida H Dee, the persona behind Drag

Queen Story Hour (DQSH), was invited to lecture 11-year-olds at Lewis School Pengam in Wales about the practice and “queerness”.

DQSH is run by Sab Samuel, a 27-year-old autistic male children’s author who performs as Dee in a sequined dress, and has recently sparked protests in council libraries and the Tate, leading to police escorts.

Mr Samuel said that in five sessions at the secondary school on Monday, he taught the pupils “to understand that queer is an identity”, as well as the 1988 Section 28 law, Pride events, living as a gay person and Marsha P Johnson, the late US drag queen.

After the sessions, the DQSH Twitter account posted three photos of the children watching the classes, which were then deleted.

In 2020, Estyn, the Welsh Government’s Ofsted, hailed Lewis School Pengam as an example of best practice on LGBT issues in a guide for other schools on “promoting inclusion”.

Laura Anne Jones MS, the shadow education minister for Wales, said: “It’s extremely concerning that this is happening in schools in Wales,” and “highly inappropriate for him to be in this kind of environment”.

She said: “The first question to ask is why is it necessary to have a drag queen in a school environment?

“There are far more appropriate role models out there. Our children deserve far better than to have a known highly sexualised and biased individual coming in to indoctrinate them and talk about delicate subjects, such as suicide and sexuality.”

DQSH advertises storytime sessions in schools across the UK for children as young as five.

Tanya Carter, spokesman for Safe Schools Alliance, said: “Schools have a duty to ensure they do not invite in [people] which [link to] adult content [online]... Unsuitable visitors to schools will only ever push children to even darker corners of the internet.”

The Wales-women’s Rights Network said it was a “safeguarding fail on a spectacular level”.

Drag Queen Story Hour said in a statement: “All appropriate procedures were followed by the school and by DQSH.”

A spokesman for Caerphilly council, which oversees the school, said: “All appropriate procedures were followed by the school.

“No concerns have been raised by the school community.”

The Welsh Government did not respond to a request for comment.

‘The first question to ask is why is it necessary to have a drag queen in a school environment?’