Unprovoked attack on drag performers in Cork part of 'troubling rise in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric'

The Cork Gay Project has condemned the attack on Lucina Schynning and Krystal Queer on Sunday night

Krystal Queer was one of the two drag performers attacked in Cork on Sunday night.  Picture: Avril O'Sullivan

Ireland is witnessing a troubling rise in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric fuelled by misinformation and imported hate, an advocacy group has warned, as it condemned an unprovoked attack on two drag performers.

Drag queen Lucina Schynning and Krystal Queer were on Oliver Plunkett St in Cork City on Sunday night, filming a video for social media to promote a drag event this week, when the attack occurred.