LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- I visited Laguna Beach this past Saturday on a gorgeous morning, the type of sunny day the seaside gem hadn't experienced in months. Tourists headed toward the beach. Locals jogged. Paramotor enthusiasts crisscrossed the blue sky on their way toward the Pacific.
Beauty wasn't what brought me to the coast, though. It was hate.
For weeks, social media posts had trashed the Laguna Art Museum for planning to host story time with a drag queen. Typical was one from the Greater Laguna Beach GOP, which alleged with no evidence whatsoever that the mere act of a drag queen reading a book to kids was part of a "larger, recent trend of sexualizing children."
