Drag storytime returns to Nelson, B.C., 2 months after cancellation over online threats

A drag storytime event is returning to Nelson, B.C., two months after it was cancelled amid reports of online threats and intimidation.

The Nelson Public Library is bringing back the event, now titled Unshushable, on May 6, this time at the Nelson United Church two blocks away.

The free-admission activity is being hosted in collaboration with community organizations, including Nelson Pride, the Nelson and District Arts Council, and Nelson Community Services, and priority access will be given to families and guardians accompanying children up to age eight.

Nicole Purvis, longtime Nelson resident and one of the organizers of the event, said the new title, Unshushable, invites participants to freely have fun and enjoy the storytime outside of a library setting.

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Nelson, a city of 11,000 has a very diverse population and used to be a much more accepting city than it seems it is currently. There has been a definite growth of anti-vax, conspiracy-believing groups and, I suspect those groups are the ones that threatened the Library employees and the Library itself.

To see the drag storytime back on is a relief and, hopefully portends that Nelson is getting back to it's more acceptance of diversity than it has shown recently.