UK Drag Queen Charged for CSA materials

No, because it isn't that photo that's the problem. It's asking to take photos in a child's room. It's scouting for children and parents who're happy to let that happen.

I don't mean the advertiser or photographer are abusers, I mean that's a poor choice for safeguarding. Like, I dunno, offering kids sweets to come and talk to you.

What @Thingybob said.

Especially if the men were obsessed with showing people their underwear.

What's true? A paedophile has been convicted. Not a drag queen story time teller. No access to children. You've admitted to jumped to conclusions about Mermaids. Show me the link to the drag queens you say is on the mermaids website and I can make a judgement.

I’m querying @YelenaBlackWidow why we don’t have stripper story hour if we can have DQSH? Both are adult entertainers, so if one is suitable to read to children in their work attire, surely the other should be too? Why would drag queens in their costumes be ok but not strippers in theirs?

Okay find me the photo I'll tell if if it's inappropriate. Let's work on facts.

You said:

where is the demand to allow postmen office workers and firemen to read stories to children whilst dressed in lingerie? If allowing adult entertainers to read to children is so good for them, why do we not have strippers and lap dancers going in to libraries for stripper story hour?

You appear to be now bringing sex workers into your general opinion about drag queens. That's okay your opinion however there would be nothing wrong in sex workers reading stories to children, do you imagine they don't have children of their own. And drag queens aren't sex workers.

So that man in the big wig, fake boobs and exaggerated make up with the jokey female name isn’t womanface? Are you saying that’s not a drag queen? In which case what was he doing reading to children as part of DQSH? Was he just some random they let in?

I have no idea why people are keen, but I don't judge people for their work. They aren't inappropriately dressed in the library, and the stories are age appropriate children's books. Again, the paedophile did not read story time books.

I didn't say that. I said the picture of the man at the story time wasn't woman face. Look at it.

And please don't start denigrating sex workers on top.

I’m confused. How is suggesting if drag queens are ok to go into libraries and read to children, so are strippers denigrating anyone? I’m saying if one kind of adult entertainer is ok to entertain children, surely other types are?

Leaving the calendar and mermaids out of it, this man is a drag queen and sex offender. Drag queens are adult entertainment as in, sexualised entertainment. They are performance sex workers.

Why are we keen for sexualised entertainers to entertain our kids?

Do we call for Cardi B to read stories to our kids, given her enormous success as a black woman? Or playboy bunnies? Why would we?

So you don’t believe drag is womanface? So it’s ok for men to mock women by parodying them, and to convince children this is ok to do? Why? If these men want to read stories to children, surely doing it dressed in everyday clothes with no make up would work just as well? What is the attraction of having a man in womanface reading to children?

Ok, Yelena, but I'd imagine that was arranged by looking for teens to interview, then discussing with them where a photo would work. It may be at a hobby, or doing homework so incidentally at their desk in their room.

To call for children specifically to allow a photo and photographer in their room is poor practice. The child's bedroom is the point of that photo.

@Happylittlechicken you are entitled to believe what you want of course, I'm not saying some drag queens aren't unpleasant in their acts, I'm not keen on them myself it's not my cup of tea, I'm just pointing out the lies and misinformation on this thread. It doesn't really help the cause to bullshit when there's enough truth to complain about.

@Dreamwhisper I agree, there is no link. The focus should be on the paedophile. Incidentally he didn't have access to actual children to take pictures or otherwise, although what he did do was bad enough.

Um drag is womanface. It’s men dressing up as parodies of women to mock women. Would that be ok if a white person dressed up,in blackface and parodied black people? There is a thread on AIBU where most posters agree dressing up in native costume when you are not that race is wrong, so why is it ok for men to dress up as women and mock women?

I've seen plenty of articles where youngsters tell their story and they're photographed at home in front of a poster or their desk doing homework or whatever. I'm not defending it if it's dodgy, find the picture and I'll judge.

It's a trouser suit and a wig. How is that 'women face'? Men can wear trouser suits and wigs. And please don't start denigrating sex workers on top. There's enough bullshit on this thread, it's been exaggeration and misinformation from start to finish. It's the paedophile that's wrong, is that not bad enough to talk about without dissing people that have nothing to do with it? The paedophile did not to drag queen story time in fact they had no access to children at any point.

It mentions photographing children in their bedrooms? That's enough to raise red flags.

That advert doesn't mention drag queens. Yes perhaps you should get verification as you were the one that originally said this paeodophile was in the calendar when they weren't, bringing mermaids into it in the first place weren't you?

Awesome. Lovely. Perfectly reasonable clothes to wear whilst reading stories to toddlers. Maybe if we’re going to promote adult entertainers reading to children, we should encourage strippers and lap dancers next? If they want to read stories to children, why not go in in normal clothes instead of womanface? Can you imagine if someone turned up to read in blackface? Or dressed in a Native American costume when they weren’t NA? Why is women face acceptable to read to children but the others aren’t?

@gogohmm
As someone who has worked with Paul O'Grady I find this tarring every drag artist with the same brush pretty offensive, he's a lovely man who made money dressing up in women's clothes.

It's pretty offensive for a man to dress up as a women in order to mock women, to profit from this and to promote sexist regressive stereotypes.

A lovely man simply would not do this.