Several Salt Lake City police officers responded. Tea Zaanti’s co-owner, Scott Lyttle, said police asked demonstrators about their firearms, instructed them to stay on the sidewalk, and told them not to use the megaphone they brought.
Proud Boy members protest an all-ages drag show outside Tea Zaanti, a local wine and tea shop, in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023.Inside Tea Zaanti — a wine and tea shop in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood — Friday night, a packed room of about 40 people sang and danced, guided by drag queens performing an all-ages show.
The evening remained peaceful, Lyttle said, and it was intense. The tea shop has never had people protesting outside before, he said. “I believe a lot of things affect children, whether it be a drag show or a scary movie, children are impressionable,” he said. “When we start to blur the lines between good and bad, men and women, it starts to become an issue because then laws start to get passed ... it just gets real messy.”“We’re not here to impede on people’s way of life,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Tea Zaanti has dealt with harassment for this drag show, called “Bes-Teas.” In September, reviews of the businesson such sites as Yelp and Google, after the social media group Libs of TikTok amplified a video on Tea Zaanti’s Instagram account. Another mom, Tessa, said that a nonbinary trans family member recently died — and that their 8-year-old child misses them. Watching the drag queens, she said, their “souls are exactly what I want my kids to see.”
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