Local advocate questions why event would even be considered.
Michèle Newton, a local public speaker and co-founder/chair of the advocacy group Making Change, posted a picture of the marquee on Instagram, and told Simcoe.com she had a few questions as soon as she saw the signage.
“I immediately just thought, ‘Why are we sexualizing women and girls? Why are we encouraging school-aged engagement in a club, in a bar?’ It just really made me mad,” she said in a coffee shop several doors down the street from the Queens.