{"id":18199,"date":"2025-02-26T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/this-was-hate-speech-ontario-drag-performers-win-defamation-case-against-blogger\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:13:05","slug":"this-was-hate-speech-ontario-drag-performers-win-defamation-case-against-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/this-was-hate-speech-ontario-drag-performers-win-defamation-case-against-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This was hate speech\u2019: Ontario drag performers win defamation case against blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Thunder Bay drag performer who successfully sued a Facebook blogger for defamation over baseless accusations of pedophilia says she hopes the case serves as a cautionary tale to those who traffic in anti-LGBTQ+ slurs and hate speech.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to know that they need to be afraid to be bigots again, because we\u2019re tired of it,\u201d said Felicia Crichton, one of the three drag performers who won their cases against the administrator of a Thunder Bay Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Webster was ordered to pay $380,000 in combined damages to drag performers and a Dryden, Ont.-area LGBTQ+ non-profit after a judge found he falsely and recklessly accused them of being \u201cgroomers\u201d in posts about drag story time events at libraries in northwestern\u00a0Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Crichton said the ruling was a relief and a sign people who peddle in hate will not find impunity on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey seem to believe that there were glory days when they were allowed to believe this with absolutely no recourse. And I think that the only truth in that is that there was a time when social media didn\u2019t connect us so quickly, and it wasn\u2019t so easy to have a paper trail of everything that you\u2019ve said,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are receipts now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Toronto<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The performers and Rainbow Alliance Dryden sued Webster in two separate cases, alleging he accused them of being \u201cgroomers\u201d and \u201cgrooming\u201d children in his posts about their drag story time events in Thunder Bay and Dryden. One of the posts also linked to web pages about unrelated people who had been allegedly charged with child pornography offences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get breaking National news<\/h3>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Webster responded with likes and laughing emojis to comments on those posts from 2022 that in turn accused the performers \u2013 whose names and pictures were in some cases visible \u2013 of being pedophiles, mentally ill and sexually abusive, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>The judge considered how the slur has long been used to falsely accuse and attack LGBTQ+ people of being pedophiles and recruiting young people into being gay and transgender. The court heard how use of the slur has seen an uptick in response to drag story hour at libraries, age-appropriate events where drag performers read books to kids in a way that\u2019s intended to help foster inclusion of LGBTQ+ families and create positive education opportunities for young people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thunder Bay Superior Court Justice Helen Pierce granted a summary judgment against Webster in a ruling dated Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant intended to smear the reputations of the individual plaintiffs and RAD with the message that they used their drag queen\/king persona and activities to groom children for sexual abuse,\u201d read the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could hardly be a more damning message than that, spread across the internet. The message was clearly understood by Mr. Webster\u2019s readership: he called the plaintiffs pedophiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Webster\u2019s lawyer James Kitchen said in an email that his client had not instructed him to seek an appeal, but he would not be surprised if that changes. He did not comment further on the judgment.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling noted Webster was living in Calgary and working in construction. The Facebook page, which the court heard routinely shared anti-LGBTQ+ posts, appears to have been inactive since 2023.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11034743\/liberals-lead-poll-federal-vote-feb-25\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/canada-election-vote.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Liberals top Tories for 1st time in years, new Ipsos polling says\" data-title=\"\">Liberals top Tories for 1st time in years, new Ipsos polling says<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11040433\/2-arrested-5-rescued-canada-us-border\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/CP174002655.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"2 arrested, 5 rescued in search operation near Canada-U.S. border\" data-title=\"\">2 arrested, 5 rescued in search operation near Canada-U.S. border<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>Drag performers and organizers in cities across Canada have been repeatedly subject to violent death threats over drag story hours in recent years, often forcing the events to be cancelled or rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling noted that hate crimes in Canada motivated by sexual orientation had increased by 388 per cent from 2016 to 2023. An expert witness for the drag performers noted Canada\u2019s intelligence agency in 2024 warned of the imminent possibility of extremist-inspired violence against the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Douglas Judson, the lawyer for the drag performers, called last week\u2019s judgment a landmark decision that helped establish case law around how \u201cgroomer terminology\u201d has been wielded against performers and the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a complete repudiation of the suggestion that this type of hate speech has any public interest value,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The performers in the case have talked about how Webster\u2019s posts and the subsequent fallout made them fear for their safety and their reputations.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Hartlen, a Dryden-based performer who works for an Indigenous child and family services agency and is co-chair of RAD, worried their professional reputation and community standing would be hampered by the defamatory accusations, according to an affidavit quoted in the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Crichton, a Thunder Bay performer and mother of four kids, said it was heartbreaking to think her children may hear accusations circulating about her at school or elsewhere. It was also disheartening to see people who shared mutual friends on Facebook commenting on Webster\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the ruling helped restore some of her \u201cfaith in humanity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nice to know that someone out there was listening and heard us, and was able to cut through all of the nonsense and just see the plain truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis was hate speech. It was malice. It was intentional. They knew what they were doing. 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