What do drag queens and children have in common?

They both find joy in wrapping themselves in feather boas and all things shiny and glittery.

A San Francisco nonprofit recognizes this shared interest in dressing up and is joining forces with the San Francisco Public Library to bring drag queens and children together.

Radar Productions, a group giving voice to queer writers and artists, will be hosting Honey Mahogany at the Eureka Valley Harvey Milk Memorial Library, March 12, noon to 2 p.m, in the heart of the Castro District. Dressed in fabulous drag-queen garb and full makeup, Honey will be reading stories, painting children's faces and passing out cookies.

Honey is best known as a cast member on Season 5 of the reality television cult phenomenon "RuPaul's Drag Race."

The group has hosted two similar events and Radar executive director Juliana Delgado Lopera said they were a success.

"I think generally queers are not mixed with kids—especially drag queens," Delgado Lopera said. "It's really beautiful to have drag queens painting children's faces and telling stories. It's disrupting that idea that queers can't mix with kids."

She added: "It's a kid's world to be very imaginative. If children were allowed they would dress up every day. I don't think they're thinking about gender assumptions. They're just seeing the drag queens as other people who are being imaginative."

Delgado Lopera said the children were initially shy at the first story hour in December, but by the end of the event everyone had bonded.

"All of them wanted to get their faces painted two or three times," she said. "They had their entire faces covered."

She also said many children attended who appeared gender neutral. "When kids are little you can't really read their gender," Delgado Lopera. "What I really appreciated was I saw kids come in wearing a skirt and like a boy's shirt. I appreciated how their parents allowed them to be creative and imaginative. I'm really excited about parents supporting their kids."

Drag Queen Story Hour is part of Radar Productions larger effort called Queering the Castro that's aimed at highlighting the full range of queer culture.

"The Castro is predominantly a white gay men's space now," Delgado Lopera said. "This project is about taking back the radically queer roots of the neighborhood. With art and literature, we're doing a series of interventions and bringing in other queer folks into that space."