Ivan Flinn
“Those boys shit themselves, they weren’t ready for some drag queens on top of them.”
Ivan Flinn, 34, left a bar after midnight on August 6 and went to a nearby restaurant and walked in on some straight men yelling at drag queens. Flinn heard the verbal abuse and said,
“There were heaps of homophobic slurs, ‘you fucking faggot, you queer cunt,’ all the slurs you can possibly imagine.”
One turned to Ivy and called her a “freak.” and she told local news,
“I said, ‘I am a freak, I’m one of the freaks of Oxford Street, now get out of this shop. And then little Ivan walked into the middle of it.”
Flinn tried to make them stop,
“’Dude, don’t ever use the word faggot and specially not on Oxford Street of all places.’”
He said one of the men went after him, tore his shirt, and punched him in the face, dislocating his jaw.
Ivy defended him,
“”You want to pick on little guys, you’ll need to fight the big freak. I’m a man underneath all of this, so let’s go.”
The fight moved outside as a man pushed Ivy and Coco jumped in to help her by throwing him “into the gutter.”
Coco later recounted,
“I used to play rugby league. Plus I have an older brother. He tried to run away and I chased him into the oncoming traffic. I’m surprised my wig didn’t come off.”
Flinn saw that Ivy was now in the street dealing with his attackers,
“After the punch I was stunned but the next thing I knew Ivy went in and was scrapping with the guy who punched me. They’re in the middle of the road, cars swerving around them, tooting, and I saw the guy rip her wig off.”
Ivy’s wig was wrecked, but she was still in heels by the end of the fight and only had minor injuries on her legs.
“These big burly guys couldn’t even throw a punch, all they could do was pull hair and run.”
Three of the attackers were still around when police showed up, and they took their statements. A Police spokesperson said.
“Police are continuing to investigate the incident, including a possible motivation of homophobic bias.”
Ya think? Flinn was grateful started a GoFundMe campaign to raise $1000 Australian to replace the drag queens’ wigs, nails, and heels.
“I really thought I was going to die that night if he had kept punching me. Drag queens are the strongest people in the LGBTI community. They stand there and say this is who I am and I’m proud.
I hope to replace my hero’s hair, ruined because of her good heart. To replace her nails, broken because of her courage. To get her new heels because she stood up for what is right.”
The campaign has already raised over $6000. Coco said it was all in a day’s work,
“It’s all just materials at the end of the day. There’s no use crying over split lace. We’re just glad Ivan’s OK.”
(Photos, Facebook, Instagram; via NewNowNext)
