A young man has died in an apparent suicide the day after footage of him leading a protest against drag queens, alongside members of a right-wing student group, went viral.



Wilson Gavin, who was president of the University of Queensland's conservative Liberal National Club, was heavily criticised for his part in the protest after the footage was circulated online on Sunday.

Gavin died early on Monday morning in Brisbane, Australia. He was 21.

In the video posted to Twitter, Gavin and about a dozen other young people can be seen yelling "drag queens are not for kids" at a storytelling event at Brisbane Square Library on Sunday morning.

The video racked up hundreds of thousands of views and the protest was widely covered in the media. Prominent Australians condemned the protest and people tweeted in support of the drag performers using the #IStandWithQueens hashtag.