• Part of the program for the month of early childhood in the city of Bordeaux, hosted by a drag queen, reacted on social networks.

  • The city of Bordeaux does not intend to change anything on the program, anxious to fight against gender stereotypes, from an early age.

  • The deputy mayor in charge of the fight against discrimination believes that these are moments of "benevolence and tolerance", which satisfy families.

Refusing to follow the example of Toulouse, which redirected a drag reading initially intended for a young audience towards an adult audience, the city of Bordeaux is maintaining its program for the month of early childhood in Bordeaux, the theme of which this year is girl/boy equality and the fight against gender stereotypes.

Among the activities on the program: readings, philosophy workshops, theater and a make-up workshop offered by Serge, drag-queen, which aroused some reactions.

“Each time there is an event of this kind, a drag reading or a make-up workshop, there is a radicalized section of the population who let loose on social networks and certain sites relay, regrets Olivier Escots, assistant to the mayor of Bordeaux, in charge of disability and the fight against all forms of discrimination.

We think that to work for an egalitarian society and to fight against all the stereotypes that plague our society, we must open the minds of each other and this, from an early age.

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“Times of benevolence of tolerance”

It is in particular members of the far right who have rebelled against this programming on social networks.

“This marginalized part imagines things that are very far from reality, believes the deputy mayor of Bordeaux.

These are times of benevolence and tolerance, as I have seen by attending drag readings, especially last June, during the month of pride”.


With the ecological-gaucho mayor Pierre Hurmic, the little Bordeaux residents initiated by a drag-queen in make-up under the falsely innocuous theme "equality between girls and boys" The "little Serge" is a man in a skirt who does make-up on children from 18 months to 4 years.

And what do parents say?

— Jean-Michel CADENAS (@RassNational53) January 31, 2023

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The programming of the month of early childhood will continue until February 11, with teams and authorities on alert, at the height of "hate messages", posted online on the subject.

“We cannot be disappointed and amazed by the attitude of the mayor of Toulouse, who is shrinking from the fachosphere, concluded Olivier Escots.

I intend to send him one or two books so that he gets his idea.

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