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Drag queens pose in bond age gear for calendar in aid of Mermaids

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JoanSummers · 14/01/2019 01:13

I'm not sure if this has been posted?

"A local drag community in Newcastle have come together in style to create a one-of-a-kind 2019 calendar, with all proceeds going to charity to support transgender children and young people across the UK."

The February and March photos are attached.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6577301/Drag-queens-pose-glamorous-calendar.html

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Pandamodium · 14/01/2019 07:40

This is my area(ish) drag shows seem to be extremely popular according to my FB. It's not appropriate for a children's charity in any way.

theresaspiderinthesink · 14/01/2019 07:25

How extremely appropriate.

timetostepup · 14/01/2019 06:39

Can’t see anything wrong with it to be honest.

Would you be happy to see a local strip club put out a calendar of the strippers in provocative poses to support a children's charity that goes into schools and encourages staff to ignore safeguarding and encouraged kids to take drugs that sterilise themselves to achieve the aesthetic they want?

MrsJamin · 14/01/2019 06:36

Can’t see anything wrong with it to be honest
A picture depicting BDSM to raise money for a children's charity? Are you kidding? It's disgusting. I hate drag.

Ringdonna · 14/01/2019 06:27

Can’t see anything wrong with it to be honest.

Notmyrealname85 · 14/01/2019 01:36

I love drag but just... no.. they need to stop whatever the hell this is. Don’t want to see it

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JoanSummers · 14/01/2019 01:26

Mermaids didn't make the calendar, they're just the only financial beneficiaries from it.

How they continue to escape scrutiny as a charity is incredible.

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WombOfOnesOwn · 14/01/2019 01:18

No, nothing sexualized about drag performance! Seems like a perfectly legitimate art form for a young boy to become involved in.

Imagine ANY other children's charity running this kind of calendar. Mermaids will whine that the outcry is transphobia. That's a lie. No children's charity could ever get away with doing this without criticism, and no children's charity would ever do something like this, except for Mermaids.

There'll come a time when this is all looked back on with disbelief, and this calendar will be one of those places where people say "how didn't every good, well-intentioned person not understand how wrong this was all going when they saw this?"

It's a good question.

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JoanSummers · 14/01/2019 01:14

Hopefully working link:

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6577301/Drag-queens-pose-glamorous-calendar.html

My autocorrect made bondage into two words, sorry.

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