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I wish that I could have seen it… bikers protecting drag queens!

In Ontario, Butch Bikers Formed a Human Chain to Protect a Drag Queen Story Hour

The WindSisters protected attendees as they entered the library.

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By James Factora

May 9, 2023

No cops at Pride, only a motorcycle gang of butches. 

As has been the case at many such events over the past year, roughly two dozen anti-drag protestors showed up at the Middlesex County Library in the small, rural town of Parkhill, Ontario on April 29, according to CTV News. They were there to protest a drag queen story hour. But they were met with self-proclaimed protectors, all affiliated with the all-women motorcycle club the WindSisters, who linked arms to form a chain at the entrance and helped escort patrons safely inside.

The event was put on by the Rainbow Optimists, a southern Ontario LGBTQ+ youth advocacy group focusing on rural communities, and Strathoy Pride, which organizes pride events in Middlesex County, the primarily rural municipality in which Parkhill is located. It was the first drag queen storytime event at the library since 2019 and the first with so many protesters, according to comments that Lindsay Brock, Middlesex County’s director of library services, made to the Canadian news outlet CBC. 

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Accordingly, 70-year-old Patricia Ginn, a member of the WindSisters, told CTV that “Historically, a butch — like myself, and I’ve been one for 50 years now — our role in the community has always been one of the great protector.”

“They were in our face, pushing and shoving, screaming, calling us everything they could think of,” Ginn said. “They actually went up to several members who were walking in with their children and called them pedophiles.”

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