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Tag: drag queen

  • Drag Queen Storytime and The Safeguarding Question

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    While researching lawfare in Australia, I came across the long-running legal battle involving Lyle Shelton. In 2020, Shelton publicly criticised a Drag Queen Storytime event at a Brisbane City Council library. He described the performers — Johnny Valkyrie (known as “Queeny”) and Dwayne Hill (who performs as Diamond Good-Rim in adult shows) — as “dangerous…

  • Drag Queen Storytime at Rockdale Library -Letter to ABC

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    Complaint to ABC regarding Bayside Council’s Rockdale Library planned Drag Queen Storytime event. The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) was reportedly interested in filming or covering the event. Dear ABC Complaints Team, I write in reference to the proposed filming of a planned event at Rockdale library. The event is one in which drag performers, typically…

  • Regarding Toilet Facilities at Schools and Drag Queen Storytime – Email to DECYP

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    Below are emails between Women Speak Tasmania and the Department of Education, Children and Young People, with regards of Department policy on new unisex bathrooms at schools and Drag Queen storytime Letter from Ellen Thorne 26.02.23 Good afternoon, I am writing to request some information as to the design of school redevelopments with reference to…

  • Hobart Early Childhood Centre Is No Place for Drag Queen Story Time

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    Members of Keep Gender Ideology Out of Schools are calling on Roger Jaensch, Minister for Education, Children and Youth, and Leanne McLean, Commissioner for Children and Young People, to investigate a 16 June 2022 event at the Cambridge Road Play and Learn Centre in Warrane, where drag queen Anna’mal Tuckerbox did a story time presentation…