"Republican congressional candidate and Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau repeatedly denounced the event, too.
In a fundraising email to supporters last week, Pekau criticized the program as "an inappropriate, sexualized event for children." Pekau also complained that tax dollars were being used on the event".
My response.....Not a single person is forcing those who are opposed to attend. Why not let the "children" (7th through 12th graders - teenagers) attend and leave them alone? My guess is if I asked many of those who are opposed if I said I thought it would probably be more dangerous for those teenagers to sit and have a meal with them as it is for the teenagers to willingly attend a Drag bingo event - they would look at me with total puzzlement.