The Down's syndrome troupe stirring up the drag scene - BBC News - "Meet Drag Syndrome - the outspoken performers with Down's syndrome who are creating a stir on the drag scene. These drag queens and kings were brought together in 2018 by choreographer Daniel Vais, to provide a platform for performers with learning disabilities and to challenge stereotypes."
No, not VICE
Drag queens banned from performing at Free Pride Glasgow event over fears acts will offend trans people - "Free Pride Glasgow, which bills itself as an anti-commercialist alternative to the Scottish city’s main Pride event, said trans and non-binary committee members were “uncomfortable with having drag performances“. The organisation said in a statement that it hopes to create a safe space for all members of the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual) community, and that while the decision may "disappoint" some people "the needs of the most marginalised groups within our community come first." It went on to stress that attendees can wear "what they want" and "express their gender how they please", but that "self-described drag acts" would not be allowed to perform... Michelle Visage, a judge on the hit cult TV show RuPaul's Drag Race and an LGBT ally, urged people to attend Pride Glasgow and Pride Edinburgh instead. However, some questioned her right to comment as a non-trans, or cis gender, woman"
The RuPaul's Drag Race And Christina Aguilera Meme Explained - "pop icon Christina Aguilera appeared on the Season 10 premiere of "RuPaul's Drag Race." Host RuPaul Charles jokingly announced her as Farrah Moan, a Season 9 competitor with whom Aguilera had a sweet interaction backstage (via YouTube). Although "Drag Race" fans immediately got the joke, alongside the rest of the judging panel, over on Facebook, a user responded to a clip of the moment by complaining, "F***ing World we live in today where men dress like that." Netflix's account fired back immediately, destroying the homophobic commenter with three simple words: "That's Christina Aguilera.""
If she is mistaken for a man dressing as a woman, doesn't that mean she succeeded?
How American kids are being sexualized in the name of LGBT inclusiveness - "They say it’s innocent. They say it’s just about inclusion and acceptance. They say no one is trying to confuse, corrupt, or sexualize kids. They lie. A gay nightclub in Minnesota held a drag show for children earlier this month. One of the performers said in an interview “I want to give the kids an opportunity to see what drag queen/king life is like on a day to day basis.” A preschool in Massachusetts is hosting a pride event including drag queen storytime and a pride parade. A bar in Dallas, Texas is advertising a drag show for children including the opportunity for some kids to perform with the drag queens on stage... Children and drag queens danced for adults with some kids even collecting money on stage at a drag convention this month... we saw a teacher hosting a drag show for students in Pennsylvania. In Arizona, a teacher arranged a drag show for students and was later arrested after allegedly having sex with a student. In Jasper Indiana, a pride event with a drag queen performance is being advertised for all ages and they are encouraging kids to bring cash to tip the drag queens... In Weston Vermont, a public library had a drag queen story hour for all ages with stories focused on gender and activism. They write “drag queen story hour captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood” Libraries in Cambridge, MA, Chicago, Amesbury, MA, and Davenport, IA are all holding drag queen events for kids. These libraries are all publicly funded... A Florida church was recently blasted for their plans to host a drag queen show for kids."
George says.... on Twitter - "Don't ask yourself why children need to see drag queens, ask yourself why drag queens want an audience of children"
Nate Pickowicz on Twitter - "2015: “We just want be married. Love is love.”
2022: “If you don’t let your kids stuff dollar bills into the underwear of a drag queen stripper, you’re a hateful bigot.”
That’s how fast it turned."
Meme - "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
LET US GET MARRIED
BAKE OUR CAKE
USE OUR PRONOUNS
ALLOW MINORS TO DANCE FOR US IN DRAG
LET TEACHERS CHOOSE YOUR KIDS GENDER"
The "myth" of the slippery slope illustrated
Meme - DSG @thedsggroup: "The question we should be asking is not whether it's appropriate for drag queens to read children stories (it obviously isn't). The question we should be asking is.. why do these people want to read children stories whilst in drag so much? Do you not find that a tad bizarre?"
Segments of Random Thoughts - Posts | Facebook - "Exposing children to hypersexual drag queens is simply one step in the path to the sexualisation of children. Who benefits from that? Pedos."
Andrew Sullivan on Twitter - "Racy, stripper adult drag queens have no place around kids. Fun, costumed non-blue drag queens reading to kids is fine. Can we make that distinction and act accordingly?"
Gray Connolly on Twitter - "Really makes one wonder what David French is writing up now as, "The conservative case for ...."?"
Andrew Smith on Twitter - "When the Right lost the "bathroom bills" wars a couple of years ago "gender affirmation care" for minors wasn't even on the horizon. Letting men have access to women's bathrooms was sold as a "sensible" compromise. I'm getting the same vibes here."
James Lindsay, weaponizing your mom on Twitter - "Why expose so many kids to drag in schools? To stimulate their "queer imagination.""
Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood - "In recent years, a programme for young children called Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) has risen to simultaneous popularity and controversy. This article, written collaboratively by an education scholar and a drag queen involved in organizing DQSH, contextualizes the programme within the landscape of gender in education as well as within the world of drag, and argues that Drag Queen Story Hour provides a generative extension of queer pedagogy into the world of early childhood education. Drawing on the work of José Esteban Muñoz, the authors discuss five interrelated elements of DQSH that offer early childhood educators a way into a sense of queer imagination: play as praxis, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance, destigmatization of shame, and embodied kinship. Ultimately, the authors propose that “drag pedagogy” provides a performative approach to queer pedagogy that is not simply about LGBT lives, but living queerly."
Jack Burden on Twitter - "Why do most parents instinctively recoil from the thought of their kids interacting with drag queens? See: Little Red Riding Hood. Potential predator (penis-haver) cloaked in femininity/maternity to foster false trust. Deeply embedded protective instinct. That’s the difference"
Why do the Left want little children to be taught by drag queens? - "Young British Left-wingers have a strange attitude towards the United States. On the one hand, they loathe it – on the grounds that it’s a warmongering, imperialist, capitalist, white supremacist monstrosity that, for decades, has wickedly conspired to prevent countries in Central and South America from attaining socialist utopia. At the same time, however, they’re utterly in thrall to the US, and slavishly follow all its political trends. Every time a radical new culture-war crusade becomes fashionable in the States, the young British Left instantly adopt it, regardless of whether it’s actually applicable over here. Which is why, in the past two years, we’ve been confronted by the peculiar sight of young British activists clamouring to “defund the police”, taking the knee in tribute to a man killed by a cop in Minnesota, and generally acting as if they lived in Baltimore rather than Britain. The very word “woke” is itself an Americanism. Perhaps it’s no surprise, therefore, to find that the British Left are so keen on the latest progressive import from the US. Drag queens reading stories to primary school children... There was particular uproar in June over “Drag the Kids to Pride”, an event at a gay bar in Texas. Photos showed children watching a drag queen dance in front of a pink neon sign that read, “IT’S NOT GONNA LICK ITSELF!” This week, council libraries in Britain have started hosting drag queen storytelling events, too. Younger Labour MPs seem thrilled. On Tuesday, Stella Creasy (Lab, Walthamstow) tweeted that she’d had “a lovely afternoon” attending one. “So wholesome,” replied Nadia Whittome (Lab, Nottingham East)... Small children already have stories read to them by their teachers. So where is the demand for drag queen storytelling coming from? Are five-year-olds across Britain saying, “I very much enjoy having a nice story read to me in class. But I’m afraid I find our teacher Miss Jenkins tediously heteronormative. Please can we henceforth have stories read to us by someone genderfluid, presenting as female?” If it isn’t children demanding it, it must be adults. But again, why? Do our librarians think books are so boring that children will only take an interest if they’re read aloud by a man in a sparkly frock? Naturally the Left will say the mothers of Reading are kicking up a fuss about nothing. Every Christmas, after all, we take children to pantomimes, where they see pantomime dames. But there’s a difference. Pantomime dames are joke figures. We’re invited to laugh at them. To find the sight of a man dressed as a woman hilarious. Frankly, I’m surprised that woke activists haven’t tried to have panto season cancelled, on grounds of transphobia. Drag queens, by contrast, aren’t meant to be laughed at. They’re meant to be glamorous. And they’ve traditionally provided entertainment that is strictly for adults. I’m sure none of them will be dancing sexily at these library events. But I doubt the Left would ask, say, a stripper to read stories to small children. Although I could of course be wrong. Why, then, are the Left so keen on these drag events? I can’t help recalling an admission in 2009 by Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair. According to him, Labour had let immigration soar in order to “rub the Right’s noses in diversity”. Perhaps that’s what’s going on here. At any rate, I wish our young Leftists would stop lazily copying every woke trend from the US. Surely they can come up with mad and divisive ideas of their own."
The Pain of Revisiting ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ - "The painful thing about Mrs. Doubtfire is that it’s a movie uplifting so much (e.g., gay people, varied family structures, etc.) at the expense of trans people. When you comb through the narrative closely, a lot of the humor is centered around how peculiar it is for Daniel to be in a dress, and that is not a perspective that honors varying gender identities but lampoons them. When Daniel, for example, sees an image of himself in the mirror while in a dress without Mrs. Doubtfire’s facial prosthetic, he casually calls himself Norman Bates. This comment is in direct reference to the movie Psycho (1960), where the character Norman adopts the persona of his mother to kill occupants of his motel. It may seem like an off comment, but trans people have been likened to serial killers for decades (see Silence of the Lambs), and it ties into a long, bitter history. In another example, Daniels’s wife Miranda puts out an advertisement for a nanny, and Daniel calls in as various “eccentric” voices to make his bid as Mrs. Doubtfire seem better in comparison... When Daniel’s kids discover Mrs. Doubtfire is not a cisgendered woman, their first response is to threaten to call the police and assault her. “You are going to get it in the balls,” Daniel’s son says. Keep in mind this is before Daniel’s deception is revealed. The only they know at this point is that Mrs. Doubtfire has a penis. That response (although common for the 90s) is still transphobic, and the text doesn’t bother to refute this position... None of this has aged particularly well, and that is especially true for the plot itself. One of the most common transphobic arguments is that trans people are pretending to be trans so that they can have access to “vulnerable” people... We are not required to be kind about the past’s mistakes."
Liberals claim that the fact that Mrs Doubtfire was mainstream means no one gets to protest about drag queens reading stories to kids, but ironically also claim that it is transphobic
Meme - "GOP loves parental choice - unless parents choose drag queens"
"Correct. We oppose a parent's choice to abuse a child."
Michigan Dem Calls for a ‘Drag Queen for Every School’ - "Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel (D.) said Wednesday that drag queens ought to be in every school. Nessel, who is best known for passing out drunk in the stands after two Bloody Marys at the 2021 Michigan-Michigan State football game, admitted she did not poll-test the idea before floating it at a civil rights conference in Lansing... "Students in the third grade are behind on their reading, our test scores are some of the worst in the country thanks to these disastrous COVID lockdowns, and she calls for drag shows for Kindergarteners""
Drag Queen “Pride” Event for KIDS Features Sign, “It’s Not Gonna Lick Itself!” - "“We just wanted to be able to be ourselves,” the sexual devolutionaries would once say. But now “being yourself” apparently sometimes means grooming young children at a homosexual bar, where they’ll slip dollar bills to drag queens performing in front of a pink neon sign reading “IT’S NOT GONNA LICK ITSELF!” This is precisely what happened, too, on Saturday, June 4 at a “Drag the Kids to Pride” show at “gay” bar Mr. Misster in north Dallas, Texas. Breitbart pointed out that “families were encouraged to attend with their children”... The announcement also invited the kids to join in the decadence. “Do you want to hit the stage with the Queens?” it read. “We have FIVE limited spots for young performers to take the stage solo, or with a queen of their choosing! Come hangout with the Queens and enjoy this unique pride experience, fit for guests of all ages!”"
Protesters clash with parents outside 'drag kids to pride' drag show at gay nightclub in dallas - "Photos and footage from the event showed adults sitting on stools surrounding a long narrow runway stage in the middle of the room. As parents sipped on drinks with kids seated at their side, drag queens in dresses and glittered leotards danced along the stage, at times inviting the children to walk down the runway with them. The drag queens snatched dollar bills from children's outstretched hands, all beneath the glow of a pink neon sign reading 'It's not gonna lick itself.'"
Blaire White on Twitter - "Taking kids to a drag show to teach them to respect gay people is like taking them to a strip club to teach them to respect women."
Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 on Twitter - "An adult performer in a thong with cash sticking out performs with a young child at the R House Wynwood drag venue and restaurant in Miami for Pride month."
"children belong at drag shows!!!! children deserve to see fun & expression & freedom"
Liberals will just get very upset because it's Andy Ngo. Presumably this video will be "out of context"
Given the implants I doubt this is drag, even if it's at a drag venue
Lindz Amer | LISTEN TO 🌈 RAINBOW PARENTING 🌈 on Twitter - "I bet most of the people flipping out about drag queens and kids have no idea that their favorite classic children’s books were written by queer people 🧵"
Liberals are so deluded that they believe their own rhetoric about conservatives hating queer people, never stopping to consider that maybe they got it wrong and that explains the apparent dissonance
Comments (elsewhere): "So gay people. Not queer. Not trans. Gay."
"none of these authors were pushing their sexuality onto kids.."
"The primary difference is, those authors did include or force their own personal degenerate tendencies into their works intended for children."
"None of those books are about them or their sexuality or “gender” That’s the difference."
"The fact that no one knew is exactly the point we are trying to make with these fuckin cretins."
"Homosexuals Are not drag queens"
"So basically there were gay guys who didn't let their sexuality become their personality and weaponize it to propagandize children? This is not the same thing."
"Yeah because gay man writing children's books is equivalent to semi nude drag queens stripping for kids while being handed dollar notes with a neon sign in the background saying "it's not gonna suck itself" . Holy Mother Of False Equivalences"
Mom ‘disturbed’ by pedophile lusting over her 12-year-old drag queen son | by James Besanvalle | Medium - "Wendylou Napoles is the mother of drag queen Desmond is Amazing (real name Desmond Napoles), living in New York. She noticed a WordPress blog post from convicted pedophile Thomas Victor O’Carroll with the headline: ‘Desmond is truly amazing — and hot!’ The article praises Desmond as a ‘pretty, young boy’ and ‘sexy kid’."
Child Drag Queen in Video with Convicted Killer—Mimics Snorting Drugs in Second Video - Daily Citizen - " In one video, the child is seen talking with a convicted murderer. In the second video spotlighted by White, the boy is seen imitating the use of ketamine. Ketamine, or “Special K” as it is known in club circles, is used at parties and events to induce a “detached, dream-like high.” That Desmond knows what the drug is and appears to know how it is used is disturbing. Desmond made his “professional debut” in 2014 at the age of six when he appeared in the music video for drag queen Jinkx Monsoon. A year later, his “voguing” down the street during New York City’s pride parade went viral. He is perhaps one of the most well-known young drag performers in the world, and his appearances at adult drag venues have been met with controversy... White explains that drug use is very prevalent in the drag community and something that White’s seen at various events... Desmond appeared on Alig’s comedy talk show YouTube channel Peeew! in front of a painting with the word “Rohypnol” on it, which is a date rape drug... Hopefully, the resurfacing of these other incidences will encourage a deeper cultural conversation around what children are exposed to within the broader drag subculture. There is no reason why a child should be in a situation where drug use is prevalent or be in the presence of a man with such a sordid history of drug use, sex, excess and violence. It’s unimaginable."
Public Backlash Over 'Drag Kid' Who Hangs Out With Killer and Inspires Pedophile's Open Lust - "Desmond’s peer, drag queen kid Nemis Quinn Mélançon Golden, poses with a fully nude adult drag queen. The stage name of Nemis is “Queen Lactatia.”... “I am a gay man and I find this Weird and disturbing! No 11 year old kid has any business being in a gay bar with grown men throwing dollar bills at them gay or straight bar!” William Hammett wrote on YouTube."
