The neo-Nazi group NSC-131 returned to Boston to demonstrate against another drag queen story hour this past weekend. It was the same group that disrupted a story hour in Jamaica Plain, wearing masks and spouting anti-LGBTQ hate language, in late July. This time, the group, again in masks, showed up at an event scheduled to take place at a Boston Seaport venue.
The Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have classified the Nationalist Social Club 131 (NSC-131), established in 2019, a neo-Nazi group.
Reports the Boston Globe:
Masked members of NSC-131, described by the Anti-Defamation League as a neo-Nazi group, assembled Sunday afternoon outside a building on Harbor Way where drag performer Patty Bourrée and friends were scheduled to put on a show for families.
Bourrée tweeted that the presence of the hate group prompted the cancellation of the event which was billed online as a performance that allows children to “see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish and where dress up is real.”
“I just could not face the neo-nazis today I said turn this Uber around,” Bourrée tweeted Sunday at 2:06 p.m., adding 30 minutes later: “I really hate that I cancelled a story hour today because two protest groups were present, but I can’t put myself (and the kids!) in a potentially violent situation especially when I don’t trust that the BPD will protect me in a worst case scenario.”
Read the full Boston Globe story here.
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