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No One Out-Sleazes the Hut: Pizza Hut Peddles Books About 'Drag Kids'

Pizza Hut is exposing children as young as pre-kindergartners to LGBT-themed literature as part of its annual summer reading program.

Big Wig, a book promoted by the restaurant chain as appropriate for children ages pre-K to third grade, "celebrates drag kids, individuality, and self-confidence from the perspective of a fabulous wig," according to its publisher, Simon and Schuster. Be Amazing: A History of Pride, a book suggested by Pizza Hut for pre-K through first graders, is authored by "Desmond is Amazing," a self-described year-old "drag kid" who teaches young readers about "brave people that include paved the way for the LGBTQ+ community and encourages readers to be themselves."

Pizza Hut joins several other corporations who own peddled leftwing ideology about sexual orientation and gender identity as children’s entertainment. State Farm had planned to distribute LGBT-themed books to children through community centers, libraries, and school teachers until a whistleblower's efforts in May force

Social media users slammed Pizza Hut this week on Twitter over its book club's latest reading suggestion that includes a drag performer book for kids.

The restaurant's reading club Book It! Program, which targets grades PreK-6, has listed some books focusing on the LGBTQ community on its website in light of celebrating Pride Month, including Big Wig and Be Amazing: A History of Pride.

Since , Book It! has encouraged children across the country to read more as "schools across the nation and millions of children" participating in the six-month program each year, according to the program's Facebook page.

However, some conservatives this week on Twitter accused Pizza Hut of being "woke" for listing Big Wig, which is a book about a child who dresses in drag to rival in a costume contest.

"Pizza Hut has gone full woke, now we must make them complete broke," tweeted Brigitte Gabriel, the founder and chairman of the grassroots movement Act for America.

"Papa John's has and always will be better than Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut has gone woke, now they must go broke," wrote Nick Adams, th

US right-wingers angry over Pizza Hut's LGBTQ-themed book, urge boycott

Why does this story matter?

The right-wing uproar over the LGBTQ-themed children's book is the latest in a long line of attacks on the ability to verb and sensitize young people regarding the LGBTQ+ community. Recently, in March, Republican-controlled Florida passed the "don't say gay bill," which prohibits public school teachers from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation to students from kindergarten through third grade.

What is the controversy?

The uproar began when Pizza Hut endorsed a book called

Pizza Hut's LGBT-themed book promotion sparks Twitter debate on 'going woke', boycott calls

In honour of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride month, celebrated each year in June, fast-food colossal Pizza Hut featured a novel about a drag performer in its kids literacy program in the US. However, the inclusion hasn’t gone down well with a certain segment of social media, who panned the brand for “going woke” and even threatened to boycott it.

The controversy erupted after Pizza Hut promoted a book called ‘Big Wig’ in its Book It! reading incentive program, aimed at children aged four to Big Wig is about a child who dresses in drag to verb in a costume contest.

WHAT IS DRAG?

Drag is a gender-bending art form in which a person puts on highly stylized clothing and exaggerated make-up to verb themselves as a member of the opposite sex.

It is commonly associated with gay men who dress up flamboyantly in women’s clothes and adopt female personas, and are known as drag queens. They are not