Deranged anti-LGBTQ+ activist wears drag to council meeting to prove that drag hurts children

An anti-LGBTQ+ activist received mockery online after she wore “drag” at a local council meeting to demonstrate the “dangers” of men wearing women’s clothing in front of kids.

Rachel Homolak — a Missouri parent who led a protest against a bearded public library worker who wore makeup, hoop earrings, and heels in front of her four-year-old child — tried to demonstrate how dangerous that worker was by attending a St. Charles County meeting while wearing a fake beard, hoop earrings, and heels.

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Homolak appeared at a recent meeting of the county’s governing council while wearing, as she described it, “gaudy makeup with facial hair, large female jewelry, painted nails in bizarre colors, [and] a corset over a sweater vest and dress that opens up around the crotch area, bringing attention to the crotch.”

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Her “corset” (which was actually a lace-up vest) and her other clothes in no way “brought” attention to “the crotch area” as she claimed.

“I stand before you tonight wearing a replica of the outfit that the librarian in drag dons regularly at the Kathryn Linnemann [library] branch,” Homolak said at the meeting. “This is not appropriate in front of our children.”

Two weeks ago, Homolak organized a 35-person protest outside of the Lindemann library because, she said, a male library clerk “dressed in drag” while working a desk in the children’s area. About 60 counterprotesters met them, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.

In her social media post advertising the protest, she wrote, “This is absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate for children. I do not consent to my tax dollars being used on individuals forcing their sexuality on my kids or any kids for that matter.”

After noting that her son didn’t even see the library worker, she wrote, “My son should be able to go to the library without seeing a man pretending to be a woman. The individual can do his job without heavy makeup and earrings and nail polish. I’m not asking for this individual to be removed from his position. All I’m asking is that all staff members have an appropriate and neutral dress code for everyone and not push any kind of sexual identity on the public, especially children.”

At the county council meeting, she claimed, “This is just the start. If we don’t nip this in the bud now, imagine how far these extremists are going to push the envelope. This librarian in drag is just testing the waters. Jason Kuhl [the CEO of the St. Charles County Libraries] is just testing the waters. They want to see how much they can get away with and then they will do it again and again and again and again.”

Kuhl said in an interview that the library system follows “workplace protocols,” as well as “all state and federal employment laws.” He added that the library’s dress code already requires library staff to wear “workplace-appropriate attire.” Kuhl told the aforementioned publication that he had received 140 comments supporting the employee and the library and 17 comments against them.

Homolak’s rhetoric echoes that of other anti-LGBTQ+ groups who claim that gender non-conforming people and drag performers “sexualize” children. In a Facebook post, she said the library shouldn’t display children’s books that acknowledge the existence of same-sex parents.

Online commenters mocked Homolak for her appearance at the county council meeting.

“Do y’all remember the St. Charles woman who lost her s**t over a male librarian who wore eyeshadow, earrings, and nail polish?” wrote Twitter commenter Laura Burkhardt alongside a video of Homolak at the meeting. “Let’s check in on her at this evening’s County Council meeting. Totally handling this non-issue like any normal adult would…”

In other tweets, Burkhardt wrote, “What is inappropriate for your child about another adult wearing makeup? I’m honestly curious. Our tax dollars do not pay for his makeup. If they did, I’d be working at the library. That s**t gets expensive. Makeup & nail polish isn’t someone’s ‘sexuality.'”

Burkhardt added, “Jason Kuhl is the ceo of a library system & Rachel demanded a face 2 face meeting about makeup. The entitlement is astounding. Wearing makeup isn’t ‘pretending to be a woman’… What happens if your precious child would’ve seen this man’s makeup? The first time one of my kids saw a man wearing makeup… No trauma took place.”

On Reddit, commenters mocked Homolak. One wrote, “Every newscaster is in makeup, every television show host is in makeup, every actor on your favorite show is in makeup.”

Another called her drag “appalling,” writing, “No beautiful clothing, no padding, not even a shake-and-go wig in the least. Honestly, I have no idea if she’s going for a ‘man dressed in female drag’ or what. Being friends with actual drag queens and kings, they work hard to look how they do. Literal hours of getting ready. This lady put no effort into it. She’d get no dollars from me.”

Do y’all remember the St. Charles woman who lost her shit over a male librarian who wore eyeshadow, earrings, and nail polish?

Let’s check in on her at this evening’s County Council meeting. Totally handling this non-issue like any normal adult would… https://t.co/JeOS26psZj pic.twitter.com/T3ec6qW4jQ

— Laura Burkhardt 🧡 (@LauraAnnSTL) June 13, 2023