Drag kid photographed with NAKED adult drag queen

^Prepared to be flamed but I also
Don’t think a 10 year old should be doing drag ....^

You're not going to be flamed for this on FWR.

Yes of course it is. Gay men have fought for years to not be viewed as paedophiles and this is so bloody regressive.

GCSocScientist, I know what you're trying to say, and I'm not trying to get at you, but it's not child porn, as children cannot consent (seeing as they're underage), it's child exploitation and abuse. Words matter.

Cross posts there, Datun. I totally agree.

Ah - thanks Orchid.

How stupid are Pink News? They are playing right into the hands of ultra right wing conservatives by trying to frame criticism of child drag acts as homophobic.

I fear a nasty, puritanical backlash against the whole of LGBT+ with this kind of anything goes attitude. We're going to go backwards in terms of rights and acceptance if this madness continues.

Elsewhere this has been published, I'm seeing gay people furious. Claiming it's giving homosexuality a bad name.

www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/style/queen-lactacia-child-drag-queen/

Tell me this isn't grooming. Tell me this isn't paedophilia hiding in plain sight.

When these children invariably grow up and start to ask questions, how on earth will their parents justify their blatant exploitation of their own child? The parents clearly have no understanding of boundaries, they need therapy and in the meantime authorities are sitting back and enabling this abuse.

This is also the kid who is filmed saying if your parents disagree with this sort of thing, get new parents.

That photo is the sort of photo that is on the hard drives of paedophiles when they're arrested. And yes, I know there are worse.

But this one is being feted in public.

Drag is now being used to blur the lines between theatre and paedophilia.

Like a previous poster, I'm utterly shocked. The fucking nerve.

I've said it before, but a website like mumsnet, where women are coming together, is one of the few weapons against this sort of shit being normalised.

As long as people don't think it's actually going to happen to them, they can look the other way. But when bloody 12 million of them are all talking about it, they can't.

The boy with the balloon is lactatia

Also wearing an outfit by and promoting house of mann (google it)

Why is the drag queen naked anyway? Was he changing into a different outfit while the child was in the room? If so, why did nobody suggest that maybe that wasn't appropriate?

This is grooming, plain and simple. It is not homophobic to notice this, it would be equally grooming if the child was a young girl. I have some problems with drag, none of which are based on homophobia, but on the spectrum of parodies of women as either sexualised objects or ugly harridans, but this isn't an image of drag either.

There aren't actually all that many things that actually make my face go properly but this is one of them.

Both of the photos in this thread actually make me feel sick, that poor boy. What the actual fuck does that adult need to be naked? How can Nemis's mum let that happen?

Just before Xmas we went to a friends party with our kids (our friends don't have kids?) We stayed quite late and all the other kids had gone so the only people that were left were adults who were getting increasingly pissed, some of them we didn't know. DS (8) was having a bloody great time dancing with the adults and they thought he was brill and great fun, but something protective in me kicked in and I suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable with it all. I know there was nothing to worry about and I was right there, but DS amongst all these adults we didn't really know, the dynamic just seemed a bit wrong, and as it was getting late anyway, we left. I felt like it was an protective instinct.

I cannot imagine any fucking situation where I would allow my child to pose with a naked adult. How can it not be a child protection issue, same for 'Eat a Dick'. Is he at school I wonder?

This is disgusting. So so inappropriate. What on earth are his parents thinking?

You have to wonder about the mindset of someone who'd see a bunch of people going "wait, is that kid OK?" the kid being "abused".

The boy with the balloon is also Queen Lactatia aka Nemis Quinn Melancon Golden.

According to Prick News, the poor kid was horrifically abused for modelling for an LBGTQ clothing store. The clothing store which is owned by the man who posted the photo of Nemis with the balloon

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/01/09/exclusive-nine-year-old-drag-queen-horrifically-abused-after-modelling-for-lgbt-fashion-company/

Nemis wasn't horrifically abused - the disgusting adults exploiting him were.

Clothed female naked male is a genre of erotica, which I assume was deliberate. That poor child needs to be removed from that environment immediately.

How could the:
Stylist
Photographer
Editor
Parent
Drag Queen

Any of these adults think this is okay?

How?

It's seriously disturbing

Child stars is also dodgy territory, most are highly sexualised too.

I always thought Jodie Foster was very inappropriately shot/used in her child acting years.

I clicked on the photo. It made me feel ill. It is child abuse. Has this been reported in Canada?

Like even best case scenario with no sexual abuse or being given drugs at a young age you end up with someone like Mara Wilson who's deeply ambivalent and for whom the transition from cute kid to adult no longer valued for their cuteness is very hard. And that's about as good as it gets, psychologically speaking.

The phenomenon of child stars is dodgy in general, imo. You always have to wonder what the parents were thinking.

I think 'queen lactatia' will write a very intetesting autobiography one day.

There was a documentary once about these beauty pageans for kids (which I consider objectification of children that I object to, but it is still way more harmless than this here, imo). There was a girl portrayed who insisted it helped her grow and whatnot, 'Mum supports me in what I want. Yeah, dad is skeptical but in the end he lets me do what I want..'. Even years down the line, as a college student she maintained that. And then, with 25 or so she changed her tune and told her mum it had always been something she (mum) wanted and she as the kid didn't like these pageants at all.

In this case with the dragkids, even if those kids should escape direct forms of sexual exploitation (how likely is that!?!) there is a good chance they will conclude 'this was wrong, mum and dad should have known better', once they are grown ups.

If you listen to ex-child stars in Hollywood, many were sexually exploited while maintaining a squeaky clean image. Here nobody can't even be arsed to pretend, apparently.

It’s child porn. Desmond is a child porn star.
Mainstream culture validates and celebrates adult porn stars, how long did we think mainstream culture would last before it set its sights on normalising child porn as an acceptable form of work/self expression?

How do we stop the pornification of childhood?