Ontario NDP urges legal protections for drag performances

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Ontario’s NDP urged the government Tuesday to create community safety zones that would protect drag artists and LGBTQ communities from harassment and intimidation at their performances.

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Statistics Canada figures show a 64 per cent rise in police-reported hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation, jumping from 258 in 2020 to 423 in 2021. “Unless we put forward a strategy to protect them, Ontario’s social, economic and cultural richness is under attack. We have to protect that.” “Apart from the glamorous, dazzling and wacky characters I play on television or in venues around the world, I also deal with the very real struggles of homophobia, hate crimes, and acts of purposeful intent to intimidate and now disqualify who I am as a person and what I do as a job,” she said at a press conference with Wong-Tam and other artists.

“They then started showing up to all of my events, screaming at parents and myself saying they were groomers, pedophiles and a bunch of other homophobic slurs to make everyone there feel unsafe to attend,” Quartz said.

 

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What! No talk about the homeless or our home needs and health needs. Go ahead and build a wall around them. Just tell them to not press their way of life on the rest of us.

Fk off

I fully agree and endorse this. Drag artists should be kept at least 100m from underage kids with severe fines and jail time if they flout the law. I mean the NDP is a proponent of protecting kids over groomers. Correct?

Who protects the children?

Fake socialists coming out for the bearded ladies

Aren't there like strip clubs and sex bars where they can go?

Legitimate question; why do drag queens want an audience of children? The parents speaking out against drag shows for kids are concerned about this.

If this is truly the heart of this group then they should have no issue with men & women who want to protect their children from adult entertainment. Stop pushing this on kids & the problem goes away. Simple!

Can they create legislation to protect kids from these pedos?

The people who support tyrannical BS like this are from a different planet. There is no use in trying to convince aliens like them why Free Speech is so important.

No

The NDP want to criminalize their opposition. Agree or jail. That’s very typical in lefty echo chambers.

they'll not pass it the PC Govt.

$25K fine LOL and she is From China

Geez just stop pushing sex change surgeries on minors is all the protesters want.

lol

Hard when you have leaders like, Ford, etc who have put donors/supporters who are well known for being far-right, anti LGBTQ+, etc , who they put on Toronto police board , Ottawa Police board. Poilievre whose now met with Diagolon members ( even just recently) several times, etc

In other words, they want to make it illegal for protests that do not fit their agenda.

Safety Zone.. yes to keep the trans and drag away from children..And a lot of my gay friends feel the same. Do not presume and lump me into your group..

Stop performing for minors and there won’t be any problems

So, we have movies with age marks because it’s some issues there, but drug shows are ok for kids and no one can say anything..oh well..we need safe zone for kids from all this bs.they can do whatever they want and no one care,until they do it with kids

The Chinese are leading us by the nose to our destruction and no one sees is. Sad

NDP want to violate charter rights that protect free speech and freedom to assemble all while failing to protect minors from sexualization and grooming.

Isn’t harassment and intimidation ilegal? OntarioNDP

Ontario NDP urges legal protections for pedophiles* - there fixed it

Protect the children.

This same clown wanted Ford to step down for saying “up the ying yang” lol

I think fixing the police would be a good start. If they did their job in the first place much of the harassment wouldn't occur

Shouldn't that be all of Canada? Not just parts of Toronto!

Give me a break… there are a lot more issues to deal with

There already are protections.

We are all the same and we are all already protected under the same laws

So does this mean I can I take my 9 yr old to the strip club? We can call it a biology lesson. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Just here for the blocks.

What a drag

Rumor has it they are also going to seek out that anyone attending these drag performances sign a non-disclosure agreement before entering the event. 🙃😒

Pretty sure we already have laws that protect against intimidation & harassment. This is just more gong show virtue signalling & activism.

How about NO! How about protecting kids from overt sexualized entertainment? This is the NDP and they are becoming less relevant by the minute.

I love Halloween, but it doesn't have to be a 365 day celebration. 1 day a year is enough.

NDP should be abolished..11 million are going hungry but let's focus on wokeness instead.

Gondek's sickness is spreading.

How about we urge these performers to make sure thier messages and costumes are age appropriate 😉. If performing in public or in a library thier content sb age appropriate. And contain no sexual content.

Artists really they are Pedo groomers give me a break

Definitely don't

I like to take a dump on the street. I urge to create a safety zone for me, as i don't like harassment and intimidation. Let me shit in peace.

What kind of authoritarian garbage is this? People have a right to protest peacefully!

What is the political objective of “sexual Marxism”? It is important for all Canadians to understand the danger represented to our democracy by radical Marxist disruptions and foreign interference.

How about protecting the kids from flying weiners

Protect misogyny and the patriarchy!

This is all thanks to the disgusting rhetoric coming from the States.

Tabling legislation to protect the transaggressors, transpredators, and transmisogynists. It's impossible to take the NDP seriously. They lost labour, women, and now they're promoting first rate fascism as if the trans community were at risk. And mere days after Nashville.

Hmm, 'The rise of hate and violence facing the 2SLGBTQI-plus communities, including the drag artists, happening across Ontario and right (across) the nation has been alarming.. ' This is alarming! It is 2SLGBTQIA+ ALERT: OntarioNDP are A-phobic! Stop the A-hate! NOW!

The Government should create safety zones around schools and other institutions with children that would protect children from pedophile groomers, aka drag artists. They should have their performances in adult only environments, like night clubs.

Jewish and Muslim ppl are disproportionately attacked way more then lgbtq2S. Where was your support to make those places of worship a community safety zone. It seems only the left can be protected ( abortion, drag show), but as usual kristynwongtam only cares about her cohort.

It's a great opportunity to experiment with 15 minutes cities. Put them all in one city, and they could put their big flag on top of their tower!

As long as those 'performances' DON'T include children

Ontario needs to protect EVERYONE not only special group of people.

Open public rape centers.

Quit polluting our children. You destroy innocence. Go back underground where you belong.

all the drag business was never an issue until you started pushing this down everyone's throat and more importantly pushing this on children. whats next? people believe they are lizard people so include another lizard gender? and then something else? Stop this!

How about safety zones so young kids dont get stabbed to death in the subway. Toronto has bigger issues! 🙄🙄

I respect the LGB, i denounce the TQ+.

Or maybe just leave the children alone

The radical left federal government is pushing for state force to protect govt sanctioned grooming events. How far the NDP have fallen.

I know who I'm NOT voting for

Wow, how easily evil is making it’s way through our government. How about protecting our children from the sexualizing that is permeating everywhere you turn.

NDP are so out of touch. Nobody wants this

That’s not how this works….

We have serious matters to deal with, stop the parasitism.

Like Red Light Districts?

😂🤣

How about we have no kids shows? How about a rating system... like movies and music?

how about keeping kids away from what are basically strip shows

Why don't they care about the kids ? Marxist freaks

Special privileges for a special class of losers

What a circus 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

If they want to play dress-up, let them. I don't care what consenting adults do. Just leave the kids out of this.

Protect paedophiles as they groom children. Thats literally what you want.

How about safety on public transit.

Why are children being subjected to drag performances? Disgusting. Stop forcing this on children. How about safe zones away from adult/ government stupidity.

That moment your lifestyle needs protecting from society, yeah legislate that, go on, do it. Then you can celebrate with a bud light.

Do you mean they have exclusive rights in some areas in Toronto

This is at the ndps top of priority list eh

You think Doug cares about that?

They’re so desperate to put on sex shows for kids.

Everyone wants a safety zone..

What..a..joke...

Where is the legal protection for children? This is child abuse.

They need to leave children alone. No one ever harassed the performances till they eye in school and kids.

I'd be reporting her to children's aide

Can the NDP come up with any more horrible and selfish ideas? How about simply making our cities safer for everyone! Why do drag queens think they are more special than other people who get attacked for their colour, their religion? This is senseless

Holy smokes. This is what we are worried about here?!

Wow - just Wow when looking at the responses here. Bots and far-rights having a field day at the expense of other people. Amazing how some malignants of society has transferred to caring so little - about society.

That’s bullshit. Does that mean we can create a zone around daycares preventing LGBTQ’s from these areas?

Disgusting degenerates!

And then one day for no reason at all ordinary people voted Hitler into power

so now we are protecting the pedophiles from people trying to protect children...and the NDP and Liberals fully support this....

Just leave it out of schools

The protected class (of sexual deviants) can do anything it wants. They have more rights than regular people. Canada is fxcked, and leftists did it.

And that goes for the kids, too.

This is lunacy. They're protected under law, why safe zones? The protests are against showing overtly sexual content to kids.

Religion is child abuse.

a performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. Sticking a hairy set of nuts in a kids face doesn’t qualify.

Safe spaces for pedophiles are desperately needed.

There are already laws against harassment

They need to feel safe while grooming and sexualizing your kids.

Have all this become 18+ and it all stops. Simple. Let kids be kids. Leave the drag shows in places for 18+.

Priorities...

Maybe we can provide Bubble wrap tuxedo and ears plugs to those who feel the need in that community

The train station. Take them there

Until recently, nobody bothered protesting drag shows. What changed? Hmm, what could it beeeee 🤔

This is why the NDP are irrelevant

I’ve never had a problem with drag Queens as they are quite entertaining. As far as the children, they are influenced in their own homes more than anyone can imagine. This is smoke and mirrors to the real issues…..

Wtf

What a clown show

Meanwhile, in the real world, Food banks in Toronto are waving the white flag

Get out of town Ontario NDP! Drag performers and LGBT+++ ever protested until they started promoting transgenderism and drag to children. They do not deserve extra privileges when doing that .

The NDP doesn't count for anything and that communist Krystan Tam-Wong should be ashamed of herself

How about making Toronto a safe zone that protects everyone from harassment and intimidation

As long as they don't subject children to their drag queen performances (like the do in the USA) then I'm good with letting them be.

As long as they are held in adult spaces, no one has every had a problem,this is political pandering, just enforce the laws protecting children, and this won't be an issue,the LGBTQ community needs to start pulling its head out or his ass and call out anyone involving children

What about protecting innocent kids from sexually induced transformations! Their parents need their heads examined!

Here, found the safety zone for them

How about using an updated photo of wong tam in the Ontario legislature not in Toronto city council

How about community safety zones that protect kids from inappropriate content?

I’m getting sick of this. We need ultra right party .

Segregation = racism

Segregation = privilege

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