Fabulous Fantastic Storytime a Halifax Pride first

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Halifax Nova Scotia ^ | 16 July 2016 | Anjuli Patil

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"Halifax drag queen Rouge Fatale says she hopes the event will become an annual tradition"

For the first time in Halifax Pride's 29-year history, a drag queen sat down with children of all ages and read storybooks.

Rouge Fatale, voted the city's best drag queen eight times, read four books at Halifax Pride's Fabulous Fantastic Storytime — including And Tango Makes Three, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, A Tale of Two Daddies and Heather has Two Mommies.

"I think it's super important ... that kids can actually see that being part of the LGBTQ community isn't something they have to hide away from," Fatale told CBC Radio's Weekend Mornings. "This is just opening up more doors and showing the kids that it's perfectly fine to be gay or lesbian or queer in this community and in this province."

Each book has an LGBTQ theme. For example, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress is about a little boy who decides to wear a dress to school.

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I can’t imagine anything worse than Folsom Street Festival and Up Your Alley. Unless, of course, those festivals begin openly including child rape and necrophilia.

Well up here they run a Strip Spelling Bee, have Dykes vs. Divas Softball, and Rainbow Riot Roller Derby so let your imagination run wild.