In the name of the Joanne Mackay Breast Cancer Foundation, an unusual alliance will be forged on Manly Beach today at 1pm AEST. Celebrity Apprentice representative, Pauline Hanson, will receive a generous donation drag queens Miss Christina Dior and Lola Del Arté (pictured) and representing Australia’s premier not-for-profit drag industry event, the DIVA Awards (Drag Industry Variety Awards) by new major DIVA Awards sponsor, Aussie Bums.
Unbeknown to Pauline the DIVA Awards representatives, will be asking Pauline Hanson to be an official guest at this year’s 21st anniversary awards and also to be an award presenter on the night, in the true spirit and fun of what the DIVA Awards represents.
The girls will be dressed as their drag versions of Pauline when the TV stunt goes down at Manly's Corso.
Will she take up the challenge? Will she appear at the DIVA Awards?
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UPDATED: 12.52pm - Pauline appears on radio 2UE this morning.
(Soundbite courtesy of 2UE)
UPDATED: 2.02PM
Pauline Hanson HAS ACCEPTED the invitation to attend and present at the 2011 DIVA Awards, to be held at the Byron Kennedy Hall, Fox Studios - October 24, 2011.
UPDATED: 10.20am - Thursday 29th September.
We have received a statement from DIVA Board member, Greg Steele.
Comments
+2 seymour butz 2011-09-29 07:04 #4
People don't change and in the case of Pauline Hanson, she's still xenophobic, and she probably still doesn't know what that means.
I can only say that i'm just sad to see how DIVA can go so low. Go on girls, a little effort and you'll be just like those middle age country women with rednecks for husbands. Have LOTS of fun !!
+2 Ced 2011-09-29 04:08 #3
Remember, drag queens were the first to take the street and fight police at Stonewall/NYC. Now they're having tea with alleged racists, dangerously reminding me of the Pope (another man in ridiculous outfits) inviting Hitler to the Vatican for good measure.
Inviting Pauline Hanson to that ceremony is shameful as well as an insult to the GLBTI community. I can only think that your girls are hit by a massive alzheimer attack.
I can only hope that sense will come back under your wigs girls.
+2 Ced 2011-09-29 03:47 #2
DIVA is a public celebration of the GLBTI community - there would be no shows and no awards without the community - and that woman is no friend to this community.
If members of the DIVA Committee want to have a private party with Pauline - rock on, girls, go for it! But she has no place on a public stage in front of an audience which she seeks to exclude from and diminish in Australian society.
+2 Crispin Rice 2011-09-29 00:43 #1