Two drag queens — Vivica Coxx and Stormie Daie — were invited to speak to students at a middle school after reports surfaced of LGBTQ students leaving the school because of bullying. WBUR
Central Park School for Children in Durham, N.C., invited Vivica Coxx and Stormie Daie — two social activists and drag queens of color — to lecture students about bullying. and Stormie Daie — to speak to students after reports of LGBTQ students leaving the school because of bullying., where she works with the city's different LGBTQ communities and coordinates the annual Pride Parade.
"When I was on the panel, I saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate to the students that you can be happy and have been through something," Coxx says."But more importantly, that everyone is deserving of happiness and capable of having love in their life. They deserve good things. And I wanted to be that example, someone who has been through something and came out on top.
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