As ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ kicked off across the US (and in parts of the UK) to help celebrate LGBT pride month in February, a drag queen strongly questioned the values of parents who take their children to these events.
Kitty Demure (KD), a gay man who dresses in drag, asked parents to question themselves as to why they’d want to expose their child to such an adult world. ‘What … has a drag queen ever done to make you have so much respect for them and admire them so much, other than put on makeup and jump on the floor and writhe around and do sexual things on stage?’ The video, viewed over 300,000 times, was also widely circulated on social media.
KD continued: ‘Would you want a stripper or a porn star to influence your child? There is a lot of filth that goes on, a lot of sexual stuff that goes on, and backstage there’s a lot of nudity, sex, and drugs. To actually get [children] involved in drag is extremely, extremely irresponsible.’
Woke nonsense
Addressing parents desire to look ‘woke’*, KD said that parents were making it harder for gay people to distance themselves from accusations of paedophilia.
KD also condemned: drag queens who had been photographed naked with young boys in drag; the taking of kids to drag shows to have money thrown at them for dancing provocatively; and taking kids to pride events as kids ‘don’t belong there either’ due to the adult nature of the parades.
In denial
The most well-known US child drag queen is a child called Desmond Napoles, who became known for drag aged eight. Although his mother disputes accusations that his act is sexualised, it is impossible not to draw that conclusion when one hears his tone and gestures which mimic that of adult acts. The parent notes that he is also given money after his performances, which she claims ‘has nothing to do with the way he move[s] his body’. His family were investigated after he performed at a gay bar in New York City in 2018.
