Planned drag night at Calgary kangaroo petting zoo spurs hateful messages, threats

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Planned drag night at Calgary kangaroo petting zoo spurs hateful messages, threats yyc

Cobb’s Adventure Park owner and president Mike Sheppard says the adults-only drag event, planned for Saturday evening, has prompted multiple emails and comments from people accusing the business of “sexualizing children” and claiming they will no longer visit the park — some inferring violence in their messages.

“Those other performers we had to cancel. We had a budget of $1,000 for that, but we’re putting that $1,000 into security guards now because of that message,” he said.on stage, said the rhetoric is unfortunately nothing out of the ordinary. “We shouldn’t have to be going through this; it’s 2022,” he said. “Part of me is a little nervous. But the other part of me is — I just want to go out there and do what I’ve been doing for the past almost decade.”

 

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Petting zoos should be a thing of the past, just like the circus.

Appears adults only so whatever. If it was kids permitted totally different story. But seriously, a petting zoo! Ha ha.

Those poor kangaroos. What did they do to deserve this?

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