Myer management didn’t predict the response they would get when they called police to remove a drag queen from their city store last week after determining her hemline was too high.

News of the outrage spread like wildfire at Newtown’s Imperial Hotel - the setting for memorable scenes in the movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - and a phalanx of eight men in dresses marshalled at the store’s Pitt Street gates at 3pm yesterday to stage a protest.

“We’re just going to have a quiet shopping day and get them used to seeing drag queens around,” said the lady in question, Kirsten Damned (pictured left in the offending outfit), before attempting re-entry to the store.

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