A children’s hospital in Chicago agreed to pay one of its employees to perform drag at public school student events, according to documents obtained through the Daily Caller News Foundation public records request.
Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital paid Chicago Public Schools (CPS) $500 for a drug performance by one of its health educators at a school resource fair, according to documents obtained by the DCNF. The fund covered a drag performance by José Dominguez Magdaleno held in his May for the school district.Galaxy Summit.The summit featured art, workshops and performances to create a “positive space to celebrate and learn about the diversity of people.” [the] CPS community. ” (Related: Exclusive: Children’s Hospital Charges Schools Thousands For Training On How To Teach Gender Identity And Anal Sex)
On April 15, Magdaleno, a CPS intake expert and health educator at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, spoke about the event with Dawn Lavigne, the hospital’s sex education program coordinator, and the hospital’s health communications specialist. I got it by email that I contacted Talia Chicojay. DCNF shows. Magdaleno noted that due to the “high level of interest” in the summit, school districts and hospitals may need to limit invitations to “organizations that work directly with LGBTQ+ youth.” [transgender and nonconforming] Youth of color and other marginalized groups. ”
According to an email in April, Magdaleno told hospital officials that vendors were allowed to distribute condoms to students, and that the school district could sell naloxone, a drug used to treat fentanyl and other overdoses. said they are working to make it available to attendees.
Lavigne informed CPS sexual health specialists that the hospital would pay for Magdaleno’s treatment. his Mail “Drag Performance Joy!” from late April to early May. To sponsor the show, the hospital agreed to pay the school district $500 for the cost of the performance and to pay Magdaleno $500 for the cost of the performance.
Magdaleno calls himself a ‘drag artist’ as well as an ‘educator’ [and] Art Education Administrator, Telling “Stories Through Drugs” according to on some social media profile.
“We are sponsoring Jose’s performance at the Galaxy Summit” [CPS’ gay straight alliance] Summit]I will charge CPS $500 to cover the cost, I will bill Derrick Little and then as a vendor I will pay Jose $500,” Ravine said on April 25. I am writing to you by e-mail. “We would like to be able to pay him (apart from teaching work). Zeke, could you please send the w9 and other information to Jose to fill out. Zeke , could you send Derrick, CPS CC, an invoice for $500 for his summit performance on May 20, 2023?”
According to DCNF-reviewed registration forms, the Galaxy Summit offered several workshops for grades 5 to 12, covering “subjects ranging from mental health to social justice.” Students had the opportunity to participate in workshops titled “Intersectionality and Black Identity,” “Intergenerational Sharing with LGBTQ+ Elders,” and “Prison and (In)justice.”
The registration form states that other workshops also included things like “history dragging” and “designing your own identity flag.” Students were asked to obtain signed permission from their parents before participating in the “Galaxy Summit”.
CPS is pleased to host the 2023 Galaxy Summit, a day-long event that celebrates and acknowledges the diversity of the CPS community. Please join us for performances and workshops. Apply by Monday, April 17th! https://t.co/tVJDQQFRAq pic.twitter.com/V8tXO2GJQE
— CPS – Chicago Public Schools (@ChiPubSchools) April 12, 2023
Lurie Chicago Children’s Hospital recently came under fire for a series of videos it produced and promoted that showed adults discussing transgenderism and sexual orientation with children. In September 2022, it was discovered that the hospital was working with local school districts to promote the use of sex toys and gender-affirming items in classrooms.
In June, the DCNF announced that Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital will fund an educator workshop on “Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Practices” to advance the National Sexuality Education Standards (NSES) sexual health curriculum to the school district. announced that it was charging up to $1,500 for K-12 student. The hospital’s school presentation suggests that fifth graders learn about different sexual orientations, and eighth graders learn about anal and oral sex.
Of the total 649 schools within CPS, 55 do not have a single student meeting grade-level expectations in math or reading during the 2021-2022 school year. In 930 schools within Illinois, only 1 in 10 students meet math grade-level expectations.
Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, CPS, Magdaleno, Lavigne, Chico-Jay and Little did not respond to DCNF’s requests for comment.
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