State leader Premier Daniel Andrews has gone on the political offensive in the culture wars inviting five cross-dressers to Parliament House in response to the cancellation of drag storytime events across Melbourne.
On May 17, the drag queens were hosted by the Victorian Labor premier and Minister for Equality, Harriet Shing, to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
“Nobody shows up quite the way that a drag queen does,” Shing told reporters and members of the LGBT community and their children.
“When the morning teas weren’t going ahead and the story times weren’t going ahead, I thought, well, let’s get five [drag performers] and see if we can’t make Parliament more extravagantly sequined than it’s ever been,” she said reported The Age newspaper….