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PIZZA HUT FACES BACKLASH AFTER PROMOTING DRAG QUEEN BOOK FOR KIDS
By Naveen Athrappully, Epoch Times
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Restaurant chain Pizza Hut
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is facing criticism and boycott calls after recommending a book about
a child drag queen in its reading program for children.
 
The recommendation was made as part of the company’s BOOK IT program
that aims to encourage reading in schools nationwide. This year’s
program began on June 1, and the company included a book called “Big
Wig” in its recommendations, which is about a young boy protagonist
who decides to dress in drag during a costume competition.
 
In an email sent as part of the program launch, the company said
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that the recommended books explore the “uniqueness” of every
person, celebrating “individuality” and encouraging children to
see what “makes us different, makes us special,” according to the
Washington Examiner.
 
Big Wig, written by Minnesota author Jonathan Hillman, “celebrates
drag kids,” individuality, and self-confidence from the
“perspective of a fabulous wig,” said publisher Simon & Schuster
on their website.
 
“When a child dresses in drag to compete in a neighborhood costume
competition, he becomes B. B. Bedazzle!” the description of the book
says. “A key part of B.B. Bedazzle’s ensemble is a wig called Wig.
Together they are an unstoppable drag queen team!”
 
“But Wig feels inadequate compared to the other, bigger wigs. When
Wig flies off B. B.’s head, she goes from kid to kid instilling
confidence and inspiring dreams in those who wear her.”
 
After the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” brought
attention to Pizza Hut’s “Big Wig” recommendation, the backlash
began.
 
Brigitte Gabriel, founder and chairman of ACT For America, a
grassroots movement dedicated to preserving America’s culture,
sovereignty, and security, called
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on making “full woke” Pizza Hut “full broke.”
 
Nick Adams, President of the Foundation for Liberty & American
Greatness (FLAG), slammed Pizza Hut for having “betrayed” the
American people in a June 4 tweet
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He asked “every single American” to boycott “woke pizza.”
 
Joe Pags Pagliarulo, a syndicated talk show host, asked
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whether Pizza Hut is “looking to lose millions of customers” by
promoting the queer book to children.
 
“Pizza Hut was started in Wichita and mostly funded by Kansans.
These folks would be appalled that their amazing American success
story is part of the effort to destroy America and her children. These
companies need to realize we won’t use their products any longer,”
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC), the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the world,
said in a June 3 tweet
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Pizza Hut did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment by
publication time.
 
In addition to the Pizza Hut book promotion, several incidents of
pushing drag literature and entertainment on children have popped up
of late.
 
The Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base in Germany canceled a June 2 event
called “Drag Queen Story Time” aimed at children after Republican
Senator Marco Rubio wrote
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a letter asking for canceling of what he called “public-funded
propaganda.”
 
Last month, insurance giant State Farm pulled off from a program that
involved giving transgender books to schools
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after it faced backlash.
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