Fabulous Fantastic Storytime a Halifax Pride first

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

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

"I think it's super important ...that kids can actually see that being part of the LGBTQcommunity 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.

"He gets put down by a couple of the kids but it doesn't really stop him from going to do it ... I thought that was a pretty good one for a drag queen to read to the kids," said Fatale.

Fatale has prior experiencereading to children she used to work at a daycare inGlaceBay, N.S.She saidprideevents in other cities have hosted storybook readings and that they have gone over well.

Fatale hopes the story reading will becomean annual part of Halifax Pride.

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