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Family-friendly drag show in Victoria cancelled after violent threats

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  One caller threatened to 'shoot up the place,' says café owner Organizers say they were forced to cancel a family-friendly drag show in Victoria due to threats of gun violence. Organizers of a family-friendly drag show at a Victoria café have cancelled the event after the café owner says staff were inundated with homophobic and transphobic phone calls. The monthly Sashay Café drag show was scheduled to go ahead this Saturday at Caffe Fantastico.  Café owner Ryan Taylor said staff received many hateful calls, but one call on Tuesday turned especially aggressive when the caller threatened to "shoot up the place and everyone in it." After that call, Sashay Café organizers decided to cancel the event and the incident was reported to Victoria police.  Taylor said staff had been logging calls, which he said expressed homophobic sentiments and mischaracterized the event as "trying to groom children to be gay."  "Our team was doing its best to try ...