Concerned parents and nationalist activists have disrupted a “drag queen story hour” event at an Adelaide library, sending the building into lockdown.
The shutdown prevented anyone from entering the Salisbury Community Hub Library for several hours on Monday morning, while a large crowd of demonstrators outside condemned the “Rainbow Storytime” event, which was hosted by a crossdressing adult performer going by the stage name Fifi LaDouche.
Members of the South Australia chapter of the right-wing activist group the National Socialist Network (NSN) gathered outside the library holding a banner reading “destroy paedo freaks”, chanted “paedophiles off our streets!” and handed out flyers.
Other protestors held signs reading “Isn’t child grooming still a crime?”, “Drag queens are not for kids” and “Stop council-run drag queens sexualising children!”
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“Imagine a ten-year-old coming and seeing a man dressed provocatively, and he is, as a woman, doing story time, then going home and asking Mum ‘Mum, was that a boy or a girl’?” one local resident told 7News Adelaide.
“We don’t approve of this, and we’ll do anything we can to ensure that it stops happening,” another demonstrator told the network.
The NSN activists handed out flyers at the protest highlighting the sexually explicit dimension to the event, and pointing out that the performer’s stage name refers to a male sex toy and a wash for female genitals.
“The performer is pictured on his Facebook page next to a naked man in high heels holding his genitals in a homosexual nightclub. He intends to read books that promote homosexuality to children,” the flyer read.
“This is a government funded attack on our youth. Stand with us and save the children!”
The books scheduled to be read at the event were Chicken Divas, which attempts to normalise crossdressing in its portrayal of two chickens in “drag”, and Just the Way We Are, a far-left propaganda book about children in “diverse” multi-racial and homosexual households.
The Salisbury Council admitted last week they had received 114 complaints from concerned parents, but a council spokesperson said in response that the event was a “one-off” and was intended to “promote diversity”, letting it go ahead despite protests in the lead-up and opposition from a One Nation representative.
“There’s a growing concern in the community about teaching children about gender fluidity because we don’t really understand the impact that has on young minds,” One Nation South Australian Legislative Council member Sarah Game said last week.
This protest comes after another protest was held in Albury, on the border of New South Wales and Victoria, last month, where a large group of nationalists protested a homosexual film night aimed at children as young as 12.
Another drag queen story hour event was cancelled in February, hosted by the ABC in Sydney, after facing massive backlash.
EXCLUSIVE: Salisbury council has been sent into lockdown amid angry protests over its decision to have a drag queen host storytime. Police were on scene for several hours over concerns for staff and community safety. @AndreaLNicolas #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/nNAOqVHUbR
— 7NEWS Adelaide (@7NewsAdelaide) July 15, 2024
