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An Adelaide library is going ahead with a controversial school holidays
“drag queen story hour” event aimed at children despite more than 100 complaints from angry parents and a rally outside the venue by protesters
who vowed to return on the day.

Salisbury Council admitted last week that it had received 114 complaints
over the “Rainbow Storytime” event set to be held at the Salisbury Community Hub Library at 10am on Monday July 15, hosted by a crossdressing
man who goes by the stage name Fifi LaDouche.

The male performer, who has a photo of himself on his Facebook page
standing next to a naked man in high heels holding his genitals in a
homosexual nightclub, is scheduled to read two children’s books at the
event – Chicken Divas and Just the Way We Are.

Chicken Divas attempts to normalise crossdressing in its portrayal of two chickens in “drag”, while Just the Way We Are is a far-left propaganda book about children in “diverse” multi-racial and homosexual households.

A council spokesperson said in response that the event was a “one-off” and was intended to “promote diversity”.

“Fifi is simply reading books to attendees, there is not a drag performance as part of the event,” she told The Advertiser.

But one disgruntled local told the publication: “Fifi LaDouche is openly an adult performer whose drag shows are described by LGBTIQA+ organisations as containing innuendo and vibrating toys.

“Even if this performance has no explicit sexual adult content, it is
without question that children are likely to perform web searches and
social media searches of the host Fifi La Douche.”

There were also protests on Friday outside the library where a large group gathered with signs saying “hands off our children” and “Stop council run drag queens sexualising children” and “hey, groomer, leave the kids alone”.

The protesters said they will be back outside the library at 9am on Monday
if the event goes ahead.

One Nation South Australian Legislative Council member Sarah Game wrote to local ministers last month with concerns about the event and its funding,
and said this week she believes it is “totally inappropriate for young children” to be encouraged to question their “gender identity and gender fluidity”.

“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,” Ms Game said.

“They’re adult concepts and it’s confusing for children. I think we just need to allow children to be children, and let them grow up and be who they
are without these other influences.”

The event comes after a homosexual film night marketed at children as young
as 12 sparked outrage in the town of Albury, on the border of New South
Wales and Victoria, last month, and led to a large protest by a right-wing activist group.

A similar drag queen story hour event organised for February by the ABC in Sydney was also cancelled after a massive backlash.

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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!”

“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.

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