A Colorado-based nonprofit organization called the Parasol Patrol is gaining national attention for its mission of helping escort youth into LGBTQ+ events.
“So, it started back in 2019," Eli Bazan, co-founder of the Parasol Patrol, began."The owner of Mile High Comics was getting ready to host a monthly all-ages drag show. And leading up to that first event, we had all kinds of threats coming in that he shared with me. We had bomb threats, ‘We're gonna lock the door and burn us all inside’ — we had all kinds of horrible threats. So the very first event was in March of 2019. It was just me out there.
“We started getting calls from libraries, even from a mayor of a suburb,” Ripley said. “Then we got a call asking us to come out and stand against the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas. So that was our first out-of-state event.” Ripley said the event was a drag queen story time being held at a park pavilion on March 11 of this year. Ripley estimated 400 protesters showed up.
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