Online backlash forces Nelson library to postpone drag story time event
Christopher Moore is among the people credited with founding Nelson’s Pride Parade, which faced community backlash and threats to participants when it was first held in 1996.
Moore wants the library to move forward with the drag story time, and said he hopes the online abuse is being investigated by the Nelson Police Department. Chief Donovan Fisher told the Nelson Star in an email that his officers are in communication with the library but did not disclose if an investigation is underway.
“I’d like to see everyone come together and says this event is going to happen,” said Moore. “And if people are going to disrupt it in any way, there will be consequences within the law. I mean, how different would it be if there was an Indigenous or Black event and people said, ‘Oh we don’t want that here.’ Those voices wouldn’t even be heard at all, so why are we hearing these voices [now]?”“This is just like taking our kids to Disneyland.
“So I would say come and take a look and see for yourself. Are we that scary? I guarantee you, you will walk away going, ‘No, they’re really not, and that was actually quite fantastic and maybe I’m going to bring my kids next time.’” The response to the library’s event reminds Moore of the inaugural parade. He thinks it is naive to think Nelson is an entirely safe and inclusive city, but that progress has been in the last 27 years. A screening of Queering the Interior last week in nearby Castlegar, Moore said, was a packed and positive event.
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