(LifeSiteNews) — It takes quite a lot for Canada’s mainstream press to report on the graphic sexual content that public school children are routinely exposed to as standard curriculum fare. That’s how you know that the play a group of Saskatchewan students from Campbell Collegiate were recently taken to at Regina’s Globe Theatre was particularly egregious. At one point, the play, titled “Little Red Warrior and his Lawyer,” featured a drag queen pole-dancing.
The show included, as the National Post described it, “a drag queen plays a gyrating, rump-thrusting, boob-jiggling version of Queen Elizabeth II in an underbust corset.” Videos of the show are circulating on X, but I will not link or include any here. The show was so bad that the teachers in charge decided, in a surprising demonstration of discretion, to leave the May 6 performance with their students, right around this point:
One clip taken from the stands of the performance shows a male character in lawyers’ robes bending over and putting his face close to the drag queen’s protruding rear, as if to sniff or kiss it. Another shows the drag queen doing a handstand backed against a pole and spreading their legs wide apart while crying out, lustily, “Oh, you make me want to separate like I’m Danielle Smith!”; in that shot, guests can be seen leaving the theatre – these are described in the video as Grade 9s.
The Regina school sent a letter to parents to explain what happened. “Today’s production aligned with the curriculum as it was a satirical farce meets romantic comedy,” the letter stated. “The materials provided by (the theatre) stated the production was rated for students aged 14+ due to mature content. As the play progressed, the production reached levels of maturity beyond expectations, and we made the decision to leave early based on our professional discretion.”
Regina Public Schools did not, however, explain why they had felt it important to take students to a bawdy courtroom-romantic comedy with advertised “mature” themes in the first place, although they did tell CTV that “we have been in contact with The Globe Theatre this discrepancy in rating and our concerns, and it is our hope that we can continue our positive working relationship.”
The Globe Theatre, for its part, informed the press that the “subversive” play actually featured important messages about “landback politics” and condemned “gross inaccuracies” about the show and “online hate and rhetoric” leveled at a performer (presumably the drag queen). I’m not sure about gross inaccuracies, but much of the condemnation online features extremely gross videos that, unfortunately, highlight the accuracy of the complaints about this smut with eyeball-searing evidence.
Predictably, the theatre insists that criticizing the onstage smut is, in fact, “rooted in transphobia and homophobia” and that they have “zero tolerance” for it, which is an exercise is studiously ignoring the point. Those condemning the play don’t particularly care about the gender identity of the performers exposing themselves. It is the exposing that is at issue here. To be fair, however, the Globe pointed out that the description of the play did state that it contained “strong language, mature themes, and sexual humour.”
So why were schools taking students to it in the first place?
Well, this isn’t the first time Regina schools have hit the press for exposing students to sexually inappropriate material. Last year, for example, a kindergarten to Grade 8 school in Regina hosted a visit from a “pregnant man” to speak.
You might also remember that in 2023 Planned Parenthood was suspended from doing presentations in Saskatchewan schools after the content of “ABC sex cards” that they made available to Grade 9 students were revealed. The cards encouraged porn use, urinating and defecating on one’s partner, and a wide range of other perverse sexual practices, most of which are too graphic to describe. Just one example of a card the Grade 9 students were given:
Non-traditional sex. What’s non-traditional to one might not be to another. For some, being restrained with a ball gag, while being tickled by their hooded master is an everyday occurrence. What do you consider kinky?
In short, radical sex education is the norm in Canadian public schools. What makes the story of students being pulled out of a play featuring a drag queen pole-dancing remarkable isn’t the drag queen or the pole-dancing – it’s the fact that the teachers decided to leave.
