Approximately 10 members of the Proud Boys showed up for a school board meeting in Downers Grove, Illinois, November 15 where a conservative parents’ group was seeking to remove the graphic novel Gender Queer from Downers North and Downers South high schools. Students said the Proud Boys’ presence at the meeting—where the men jeered at them, even called them “pedophiles” for supporting keeping the book in the library—was “unnerving” and “intimidating.”