Minors Attended Drag-Queen ‘Lap Dance’ at NC College
Invitations to a drag show hosted during Pride Fest at Forsyth Technical Community College, featuring a sexualized “lap dance,” went out to students as young as 14 years old.
Footage obtained by the social-media account @libsoftiktok on Tuesday showed a drag queen straddling and gyrating on an unidentified student. The show was hosted by the community college’s local Pride Club. Two high schools are attached to Forsyth Technical, located in Winston-Salem, N.C. Fliers advertising the performance, posted across campus, did not include any minimum-age requirement to attend.
The college administration maintained that it had done nothing improper, though it failed to ensure that minors were not present at the performance.
“Forsyth Tech is committed to being a place of promise for our students. In order to fulfill that promise, we have clearly spelled out our mission, vision and equity statements,” the school noted in an official statement provided to Libs of TikTok.
“These students, like all college students, are open to attend any student event.”
Growing media pressure on the community college in the wake of the now-viral lap dance eventually prompted the school’s chief officer of student success, Paula Dibley, to confirm that the North Carolina college would “revise campus policies” following the blowback.
“Parents of children under 18 were not notified of this event in advance,” Dibley told Fox News on Wednesday.
“We have been in close contact with our early college school leadership and are talking with both leaders and parents about how we can revise campus policies and procedures regarding early and middle college students’ attendance at campus events,” Dibley added.
One of the event’s co-sponsors, Prevent Ongoing Spread of STIs Everywhere (POSSE), consequently walked back its earlier support for the event.
“Our staff was aware that there would be drag performances but was not involved with planning the event and had no information regarding the age of the attendees,” Forsyth Technical’s public-health director, Joshua Swift, told Fox News. “We spent $58 on supplies from the department’s operational budget which is funded locally and in part by the State of North Carolina. We do not condone the actions that allegedly took place during the event.”
A source for the outlet confirmed that high schoolers were emailed invitations to the drag race and that some minors were seen “tipping” drag performers during the event.
