After years of experiencing hate for expressing themselves through the art of drag, the Okanagan’s ‘storytime Queen’ has seen a glimmer of hope coming from the Superior Courts of Ontario.
On Dec. 14, Justice Tracey Nieckarz made a decision to move forward with the defamation suit of Rainbow Alliance Dryden et al. v. Webster, where a man was accused of calling an Ontario-based drag performer a “groomer.
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