My Family Is Freaking Out That We Took Our Daughter To a Drag Brunch

I keep hoping it'll just die down, but what should I do here? What would you do??
Q:
Hello! I've been out for most of my adult life and my very large, very close-knit extended family has always seemed very chill and normal about me being a lesbian. No one's ever said anything rude or coded (at least to my/my immediate family's face?) — and they’re all pretty liberal except for one of my aunts’ family who are really into Fox News, but they tend to keep it quiet at bigger family things because they know the rest of us don’t roll that way. Still, they’ve always been very supportive of our family.
Which is why what happened recently has baffled me and my wife. We dressed up our daughter (3 yrs) in a campy little outfit and took her to an all-ag...

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