Merri-bek Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton argues that councils must not cave in to pressure from the homophobic far-right and cancel LGBTIQ gatherings because that enables “drag panic”.
LGBTQI advocacy groups have welcomed the decision by local councils and the Victorian Parliament to fly the Pride flag as "incredible", in light of far-right groups recently targeting councillors and council staff over drag storytime events.
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Part of supporting LGBTQ+ people is arranging events that include them and finding ways to defend those events with the community in the face of hateful far-Right hostility.