Student found dead after viral video of him leading protest against ‘drag queen’ event for kids

BRISBANE, Australia – Not long after a video of university students chanting “Drag queens are not for kids” to a drag queen at a public library went viral, the protest’s 21-year-old Catholic organizer was found dead. While most of the immediate reporting out of Australia suggests that Wilson Gavin’s untimely death is the result of suicide, some friends of the devout traditional Catholic continue to speculate that this may have been murder in retaliation for his involvement in the library protest. -- More...

The suicide of drag queen protester Wilson Gavin just hours after he ­attracted a storm of online abuse has supercharged debate over the use of social media as a weapon to ­attack political opponents https://t.co/gmNKwvqP7S

— The Australian (@australian) January 13, 2020