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Yet Another Drag Queen Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Images
KAREN FINDLAY – 22 August 2022 – Women Are Human
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US — Franklin County, North Carolina. Following a two-year investigation, Brice Patric Ryschon Williams was charged with 25 counts Possession Of Child Pornography, a Class 2 felony, as well as 18 counts of Criminal Use Of A Communications Facility, Tri-State Alert reported on June 23, 2022. Williams is a drag queen who goes by the name Anastasia Diamond, and who has participated in drag events across Pennsylvania. In 2020, Williams won the LGBT Center of Central PA ‘Rising Star’ award. A former HIV medical case manager with Keystone Health Center in Chambersburg, Williams was working for GLO Harrisburg, a center providing a ‘safe space’ for LGBTQ+ youth of color, at the time of the arrest.
According to The Glinner Update, Williams is “at least the seventh man who is either a drag queen or a sponsor of drag queens to be arrested for paedophilia offences in recent years”. Other arrests include Brette Blomme, a judge best known for his role as president and CEO of Cream City Foundation, a fiscal sponsor of the Milwaukee chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour and Albert Garza, a “Drag Queen Storytime” reader to children at the Houston Public Library. Nathan ‘Flowjob’ Mullen, also came under intense scrutiny in 2020 when explicit social media posts came to light shortly after the performer read stories to young school children in Scotland, as well as a 2018 tweet where Mullen joked about punching a child while hungover. Previously, when a local resident asked her library about undertaking criminal background and/or vulnerable records checks for drag queens performing for children (pointing to Albert Garza as a reason these checks were needed), the chief librarian suggested there was no need “as [drag queen performers] are under the supervision of event hosts, and are not engaging with members of the public one-on-one”.
Central Pa. drag queen, activist charged with 25 counts of child pornography: police
JENNA WISE – 24 June 2022 – PennLive
editor’s note: This story was updated on June 27, 2022 to clarify which groups operate GLO Harrisburg.
Brice Williams, a local drag queen who counseled LGBT youth in Harrisburg, has been charged with downloading photos and videos of child pornography two years ago, court documents said.
Williams, 26, of Chambersburg, is charged with 25 counts of child pornography for at least 49 photos and 25 videos of naked, prepubescent boys that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said he downloaded between May and December 2020.
The sexually-explicit content showed genitalia and boys performing sex acts on one another — sometimes with an adult man, as well, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed Thursday.
Authorities said the boys were under 18 years old, but did not specify their ages.
The affidavit said the photos and video downloads were linked to Williams’ email and home addresses. The pornography was also allegedly downloaded by someone under the username “Ana D,” the affidavit said. “Anastasia Diamond” is Williams’ drag queen persona.
Williams sat down with PennLive in July 2021, just before he was expected to work with GLO Harrisburg, a center that offers a “safe space” for LGBTQ+ youth of color, to do HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness work with LGBTQ+ youth. Before GLO Harrisburg, Williams was an HIV medical case worker for Keystone Health in Chambersburg.
The LGBT Center of Central PA gave Williams the 2020 Rising Star Award.
“I feel as though this is so important because I know there are little kids like me who are queer who are Black who are still not able to look up to anyone,” Williams told PennLive last year. “So that’s the reason why I got into this line of work. I wanted to make … a big impact for folks in my community.”
GLO Harrisburg is a collaborative program from UPMC Central PA, Hamilton Health Center and LGBT Center of Central Pa.
When investigators visited Williams’ Chambersburg home Thursday, he said the two email addresses linked to the pornography were his, according to the affidavit. He also reportedly confirmed the phone number listed as the recovery number for one of the email addresses was his.
The affidavit said the child porn was also connected to a Comcast subscription that was registered under Williams’ home address.
At first Williams denied downloading child pornography, but later said he first viewed child porn in 2014 on a messaging app before moving to cloud-based storage apps — like Dropbox, where at least nine of the photos were found, the affidavit said…