It’s the Wild, Wild West at West High School in Anchorage. Students from 14 to 18 years at West High have the opportunity to explore their sexual expression and possible fetishes during the lunch hour, as the Gender and Sexuality Alliance hosts “Drag Themed Bingo,” with food and drinks provided.
The GSA club was formed in 2001 by two English teachers “for students who may be questioning their sexuality, students who seek support from peers and adults, and students who know who they are and want to express themselves,” according to an account in the school’s newspaper in 2019.
In that report, club advisor and English teacher Barb Clark said, “At the time [2001], having a GSA club was still kind of cutting edge…it had a bad reputation, and was quite controversial. There was still some agitation, not from inside, but more on the outside on whether this was appropriate. But the club pushed through and now thrives with varying numbers of students attending meetings each week.”
Now, in 2025, the club is pushing the envelope further with drag queen activities for students, far out of the orbit of their parents. This is a twist on Drag Queen Story Hour, but instead of young children, this is for teens who want to experiment. Parents in the West High School community have not been informed about this activity on campus during school hours and have no reasonable means of keeping their 14-year-olds out of the gender-bending event.
According to the Wink Bingo website, drag bingo is a twist on traditional bingo where a drag queen hosts the game, blending the classic number-calling format with drag performances, comedy, and bawdy audience interaction. It often features risqué humor, lip-syncing, dancing, and glamorous costumes, creating a festive, “inclusive atmosphere.”
The event originated in Seattle in the 1990s, it has grown into a game that is popular in gay bars, nightclubs clubs, and even Players mark bingo cards as numbers are called, but the real draw is the drag queen’s charisma, banter, and ability to engage with the room.
“Drag queen bingo has been an unequivocal success in helping to popularise both of its facets: bingo and drag queen entertainment,” the website states.
According to the GSA club’s official profile on the school’s website, GSA is for “Promoting understanding and dispelling prejudice amongst gay, straight, transgender and bisexual students at West.”
And now it has an additional draw — normalizing transvestism as a form of appropriate entertainment for teens who are just beginning to explore sexuality, and holding that entertainment during school hours.
I want to withdraw my tax dollars from the school district!
Not what school is for.
This should never be allowed.
They really should just hire prostitutes and get it over with.
They are already prostituting and pimping the minds of the children.
This is “education”? Throw some more tax money at “education” and hope someone will teach our youth to read, write, and calculate? How is this “club” condoned on school campus during school hours? George Carlin’s piece, “It’s A Big Club And You Ain’t In It,” comes to mind in reading this article. Outraged? Yes.
George Carlin was talking about the Billionaires that don’t pay taxes but raise yours (like Trump and Elon), that’s the only way that joke makes sense, what the hell are you talking about?
George Carlin’s piece came about years ago in the “no child left behind”era. Much of it applies to the billionaire grifters of today who thrive on government sponsored funds that bilk the taxpayers. Read the news. Glad to see many of them getting busted.
Tell me how Elon is raising taxes, he has no power and isn’t even cutting the jobs or funding of anything, just finding stuff to report to OUR President. Also if you know anything about Carlin he didn’t agree with some of the stuff that liberals do too, he got a little more conservative with age.
Carlin had no idea how much Million and Billionaires pay in taxes.
Nor does a single Democrat.
Actions (verbs or gerunds) are condoned or condemned, not nouns (people or things).
Explain the actions and behavior of this “club” and how the club enhances the relevant knowledge of the students who participate in the “drag queen bingo” on school time using my tax dollars.
The school didn’t pay for it, the money all came from the students not your tax.
If the students paid for it, they should find a suitable location off campus and outside of school hours.
Amen! (and I’m a gay atheist!)
Root out the “dangling participles” too – they are a disaster for grammar perfectionists. Snort!
They took the Bible out of school years ago and this is alright? Here is the results folks. I’m all for equality but don’t be forcing these issues on children’s minds. They are a bit too young to be “trained” into that type of life.
This is a club organized by students, for students. We also have Bible study club every Friday, by students, for students.
Good to know. Thanks.
This is so wrong on so many fronts. First off, parents aren’t notified? If This wasn’t so bad, they would let them know.
This is about destroying their innocence. What you see, you can never unsee.
This is about destroying the family unit. There’s nothing good that will come out of this.
This is about recruitment to their sick predatory desires.
This IS a form of child abuse.
This IS pornography.
The Lord was kicked out of schools and something evil filled that void.
Parents! Pull your babes out of public dis education.
BINGO was his , I mean her, or they , name o.
Public school is child abuse.
Child grooming. That’s all it is. Public money spent in public schools by perverted homosexual adult teachers to prepare 14-18 year olds for a life of sexual perversion, entertainment, and sexual abuse. There are laws against this activity, but some public schools that condone and encourage this are able to mask it with harmless names such as BINGO. Don’t be fooled. These pervert criminals are getting the kids ready and up to speed for more perversion. Teachers need to be arrested.
When I was a kid the “hot” lunch program was a cup of coffee and a pack of Lucky Strikes.
Now it’s a stiffy from a tranny?
It is sickening to see the school bus loads of innocent children being transported to and from the “camps” to indoctrinate them to this drek. I first took serious notice some years ago when I read that kids were being taught to put condoms on bananas. It is unacceptable for taxpayers to pay heavy property taxes for anything but substantive education that teaches the elements of reading, writing, math, science, and the relevant knowledge they need to succeed in life. Is the NEA capable, and/or the unionized teachers capable? I wonder at this point.
And the school district wants more funding? The fixation of this this lot on children is demonic.
McCabe? Griffin? Bishop? You and your co-conspirators getting the message here?
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What have you got to say for yourselves struggling as you are to reward the sexual groomers of children with even more money?
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In what world, besides yours, is the sexual grooming of children rewarded with more money while their education is nationally recognized among America’s worst?
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No? Then what else is going on in that school to develop children into decent, literate, functional members of a reasonably wholesome society?
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You mob are okay with children having to give up all chance of a decent education, having to consort with what looks way too much like transvestic pedophilic predators just to attend public schools …and forcing taxpayers to pay for your perversion?
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Yes, your perversion. You control it, you allow it. You demand even more money for it. So you bloody well own it, no?
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Why is it that all you mob can talk about is getting more money and giving more money to officials who allow transvestites in schools?
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Remind again what makes you three any different from the nasty vermin who do this, since you’ve advocated for no law forbidding it, no order to fire every official involved in the doing of it?
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Eaglexiter’s should be speaking up about now …this is coming to CRB schools? Yes or no?
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Seems past time to ask the federal Department of Education to pull federal funding from schools which do stuff like this. Teachers’ union approves it, so why not ask if such depravity is grounds for decertifying the union? Enough people ask, who knows what’ll happen?
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What would it take to pull down this rotting empire, start all over again, maybe under the leadership of the Mississippi team who brought their school system back to life?
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McCabe? Griffin? Bishop? Speak up, where you at on this?
My hi school. How pathetic and disgusting. I used to be proud to have graduated there. NO MORE! Clearly the Anchorage school district funding has not been cut enough. Dear Gov Duleavy. If this is the crap going on in schools then cut cut cut!!! NO increase AT ALL. And fire the folks who approve this crap, starting at the school board on down to the teachers facilitating it. Disgusting.
Are you High? High school is to learn how to greet others. Hi, hello and other formalities. By your thinking the parents are in charge.
Are you higher? There are plenty of other students and teachers to learn that.
Were the two teachers who started this club ever investigated for grooming?
65% of my property tax goes to an absolute sh!-show.
Our schools are a failure by any measure.
Makes me feel like it’s time to leave Anchorage after almost 50 years
How fun, glad they got to have fun.
This is grooming, plain and simple.
Hopefully all federal funding will be pulled back from ASD, can’t happen soon enough.
Agree! However, I fear I’ll be taxed out of my home of 44 years, in the future, with the incessant property tax increases to fund irrelevant nonsense. The egregious ASD/NEA is a “cartel” in itself as I see it. Sexual exploration for children and teens (as mentioned in other comments about this pervert club) is child abuse on the campus and in the classroom!
I want a refund from my property taxes of which 50% goes to ASD.
Tamra is correct! ASD has gone way beyond their authority and they don’t give a damn what parents want for their kids! Obviously there is a serious lack of morality in the education system and these teacher’s “ and I’m using the word teacher loosely” have no shame and no fear whatsoever of parents! Parent’s…start doing your job and stop letting the school district raise your children!!! In the long run, I can guarantee you won’t like the results of your apathy.
I couldn’t help but notice the sign in the photo – “Join Asian Culture Club.”
Just out of curiosity, where can a student join the “Caucasian Culture Club” and “Celebrate Diverse Caucasian Culture?”
Probably at any lunch table in the cafeteria.
There’s not enough people from the Caucasus at west to make a club like that. Any group of 10 students can make any club and advertise it if they want.
Pedophile Grooming at best from the Left. This is what you want Anchorage? To become a hovel to those that mentally harm children?? Good to know! I won’t be spending any money in your crap town!
High School is for learning. Not for playing with FIRE! Need to get back to keeping kids safe from this whacko garbage in schools. They are SICK minded individuals.
Playing dodge ball with them would be far more entertaining. Using canon balls is preferable.
Sorry, we are having brunch every weekend instead, you sound jealous babygirl
So long as you have brunch OFF CAMPUS, we wont have a problem.
Khruschev said that U S Government Schools would be used to brainwash kids and ultimately destroy Democracy.
Who pays for this?
Nobody. The supervisor donates their time and the kids bring their own snacks. ☺️
Off campus and outside of school hours? Nah! Back in the day, a small contingent of racy West High students called “Who Boys” and “Which Girls” were believed to participate in booze, back seat sex and smoking (tobacco, of course) on their own time and certainly not in school. Who’d a thunk it would evolve to blatant, in your face perversion allowed on campus.
This is what the extra school funding would go for??
Sexuality should not be taught in school. Period!
I will remind everyone the voter turnout recently was 15 percent. Returned the same people to school board. The public seems to like what is going on. The blame lies with ASK school board. Have any of you ever attended a school board meeting?
With respect Judy, all we know about voter turnout what we were told by unelected officials who work for Assembly members running for re-election.
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No. Attending Delphi meetings conducted by a self-apponted fourth arm of American government, accountable to no one for what they do, is futile.
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No? What do you suggest saying that’s bound to change the minds of a mob who, for some reason(s) are so comfortable with what they do, who know they don’t have to worry about parent/taxpayer outrage?
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What they do? Here’s a short list::
The ASD board voted unanimously to steer million-dollar school-district contracts to union-only shops, which means nothing prevents contracts from being padded to exceed the magic million mark;
they’re okay with transvestites infesting public schools;
they’re okay with pornography in school libraries;
they’re okay wilh harboring illegal alien children of any age, passing out “free” meals to illegal aliens who look young enough to pass as children;
they’re okay with transvestic pedophiles grooming school children;
they never refuse teachers’-union demands;
they’ve got a pipeline to the state Department of Education because one of their own runs it;
they, and the state DOE, are okay with ASD children being among the country’s worst educated;
they’re okay with hiring a boy to run ASD schools, who never said publicly why he bailed out of his Houston school super’s job just before the State took it over.
and they’re very okay with taking more and more of taxpayers’ money to do these things, knowing taxpayers can’t do anyhting about it.
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…who know they don’t have to worry? Here’s a short list.
They know elections are so easily corruptible that their jobs are secure and their money supply are virtually unlimited.
They know Alaska’s grand-jury system is so corrupted that they’re pretty much immune from criminal accountability.
Absent a forensic audit of school district finances and mangement practices, no one outside The Club will ever know what they do with their money.
They know they’ll never be forced into stepping back and turning ASD over to a group like the Mississippi people who brought their schools back to life.
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Restore integrity of election and grand-jury systems, we have a chance, otherwise it’s like strolling in the lions’ den at suppertime and discussing what’s on the menu.
And you wonder why numbers are going down in public schools… My daughter is homeschooling because of the crap that is let into our schools that as a public we pay for. Home schooling or Christian charter schools are the only answer. Also as a taxpayer we need to be able to say where our school tax dollars go to as whether home school programs or charter schools or public to protect our kids from the liberal brain wash that is happening there now…
Another reason for Charter schools cheaper schools and smarter students.
This is what happens when registered voters don’t vote, don’t participate in school politics, PTA, school board meetings and the other venues parents can get involved with to protect their children. These perverts in the school district and the perverts on the school board don’t care about your children or grandchildren,Period! Get involved in the school system to protect your children.
All you know about how registered voters voted is what you’re told.
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You have no way of knowing whether it’s true or not.
You mean to tell me that voter records are now private?
So, I assume you all are going to start attending School Board Meetings and take your schools back?
No.
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Anchorage’s education industry is so afraid of you that they’ll just roll over, let you march into their Delphi meetings, let you “take back” the very thing that props up their empire?
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How’s that worked so far?
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What do you think you’ll take back without warrants, court orders, some kind of legislation, a forensic audit of school-district finances and management practices, an open, honest, transparent election system, an uncorrupted state grand-jury system?
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You’re gonna take back one of the country’s worst, most expensive school systems and run it with the very same crew of misfits, incompetents, perverts, racketeers, and union thugs who populate it now?
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People who created it, who benefit from the money, will let you walk into their meetings, denounce them, and they’ll just admit they messed up and hand over the keys to you?
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You got what it takes to tell the teachers’ union you’re taking back their empire and things are going to be way different? Suppose they say hell no, threaten to strike, what happens to “take back your schools” then?
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What if the school board says hell no, and you suddenly find yourself cancelled, jobless, ostracized from polite society, who pays your bills then? Folks would never do that to protect their empire, right?
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No? Then what’s the point of “attending School Board Meetings”? What’s the difference between you and anyone else in a line of supplicants begging the Imperial School Board to do or not do something?
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Want to take back something, start with top-to-bottom election reform. Do you think Anchorage’s education industry would do what they do if they had to worry about angry voters voting them out and “taking back schools”?
Some parents have tried to speak against this at school board meetings. They get illegally booted out or silenced if they dare question the Gay Alphabet Mafia.
This yet another sick perverted infestation in our public school system, designed and promoted by a minute segment of the population in an attempt to justify and expand their disgusting sicko group. They know full well that many people will object to this perverted activity therefore giving them another wedge to drive into society knowing full well they must divide to conquer. They will fail for several different reasons. Society overwhelmingly disapproves of this sick garbage, and the alphabet crowd that they seek to promote and expand do not reproduce. Over the long haul hopefully a self correcting problem. We must never accept or cease to push back against this vile form of child abuse.
I’m a gay man and find this totally unacceptable.