Drag queen book reading sparks protest outside downtown Edmonton library
“There was a lovely drag queen named Felicia Bonée,” Irwin said. “I went in there and heard the stories, they were beautiful, they were lovely, so many kids with families that just really enjoyed it.”“Why do the children need to know that? They don’t need to know that,” Fortune said. “They don’t even know what clothes they are going to put on for the day, let alone what sexuality they are going to be.
“They are welcome to protest, they absolutely are, that’s their right,” she said. “I would ask them to do it respectfully because it wasn’t fully respectful today.”Protesters said they as long as the readings continue, they will be back. And if that’s the case, so will song and dance brought on by crowds of people in the LGBTQ+ community.
“I don’t really understand the hate and the anger,” Irwin said. “But you know, I send them love and that’s the message I sent to some of them who were in my face earlier.” Global New reached out to the library for comment but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
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