NETFLIX: ‘Dancing Queen’ featuring pre-pubescent boys in drag

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NETFLIX PROMOTES p***philia WITH DRAG QUEEN INDOCTRINATION SERIES
‘Dancing Queen’ featuring pre-pubescent boys in drag renewed for Season 2
Jon Bowne | Infowars.com - JUNE 4, 2019


IMAGE CREDITS: @THEMADSLOTH/TWITTER.

As competitors to Netflix continue to appear over the horizon, Netflix made its market position clear in a company-wide letter.

As CNBC reported, “It’s newer forms of entertainment — such as Fortnite and Google’s YouTube — that got shout-outs in the company’s letter as stronger competitors.”

But if there is a shred of morality and providence left in America, Netflix may not even be able to see the true threat to their success is themselves.

Netflix has already been scrutinized for allowing child pornography on their service.

The Argentinian film “Desire” depicted two ten-year-old girls in a sexual situation.

Also, there is the extremely perverse Netflix animated series Big Mouth.

As the Freedom Project summed up “…the profanity and grotesque immorality and perversion make the show self-evidently unsuitable for children. On the other hand, the constant portrayal of young children’s genitals and similar imagery make it self-evidently unsuitable for adults. In short, it is unsuitable for anyone but the most depraved minds. The real goal appears to be to corrupt and sexualize more young children.”

Now, Netflix has entered what some would regard as infuriating uncharted territory with the Netflix Original series “Dancing Queen,” a series that focuses on a dance teacher from Texas who walks a fine line in promoting the normalization of young children and the drag queen lifestyle.

While the series doesn’t go as far as the lunacy of Michael Alig and the exploitation of Desmond the Amazing, “Dancing Queen” carefully introduces the relationship between Drag Queens and children to a larger audience.

And with the popularity of Desmond and the marketing for the show, Dancing Queen is either a horribly timed coincidence or is pushing the same subversive narrative found in other Netflix shows.

So with so many cut the cord offerings on the table, cutting off your Netflix subscription should be the first thing any red-blooded American with any sense of decency does posthaste.

It has never been easier to be a part of the problem if you continue to subscribe or the solution if you cancel today.
 
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so their the promotion of polluting and using children continues.."THE TWISTED AGENDA" and they continue to lie and say it isn't happening..the truth is there for all to see!!!....the darkness.is getting closer and closer to being accepted by mainstream lifestyle's..
 

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NETFLIX PROMOTES p***philia WITH DRAG QUEEN INDOCTRINATION SERIES
‘Dancing Queen’ featuring pre-pubescent boys in drag renewed for Season 2
Jon Bowne | Infowars.com - JUNE 4, 2019


IMAGE CREDITS: @THEMADSLOTH/TWITTER.

As competitors to Netflix continue to appear over the horizon, Netflix made its market position clear in a company-wide letter.

As CNBC reported, “It’s newer forms of entertainment — such as Fortnite and Google’s YouTube — that got shout-outs in the company’s letter as stronger competitors.”

But if there is a shred of morality and providence left in America, Netflix may not even be able to see the true threat to their success is themselves.

Netflix has already been scrutinized for allowing child pornography on their service.

The Argentinian film “Desire” depicted two ten-year-old girls in a sexual situation.

Also, there is the extremely perverse Netflix animated series Big Mouth.

As the Freedom Project summed up“…the profanity and grotesque immorality and perversion make the show self-evidently unsuitable for children. On the other hand, the constant portrayal of young children’s genitals and similar imagery make it self-evidently unsuitable for adults. In short, it is unsuitable for anyone but the most depraved minds. The real goal appears to be to corrupt and sexualize more young children.”

Now, Netflix has entered what some would regard as infuriating uncharted territory with the Netflix Original series “Dancing Queen,” a series that focuses on a dance teacher from Texas who walks a fine line in promoting the normalization of young children and the drag queen lifestyle.

While the series doesn’t go as far as the lunacy of Michael Alig and the exploitation of Desmond the Amazing, “Dancing Queen” carefully introduces the relationship between Drag Queens and children to a larger audience.

And with the popularity of Desmond and the marketing for the show, Dancing Queen is either a horribly timed coincidence or is pushing the same subversive narrative found in other Netflix shows.

So with so many cut the cord offerings on the table, cutting off your Netflix subscription should be the first thing any red-blooded American with any sense of decency does posthaste.

It has never been easier to be a part of the problem if you continue to subscribe or the solution if you cancel today.
I'm so glad I got rid of Netflix. I sure as hell won't spend money on it ever again.

But I will go to another's house and binge watch Black Mirror and Stranger Things. So I guess I'm not doing the whole-hearted boycott I really want to do. Darn them for having two good shows I want to see.
 

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So with so many cut the cord offerings on the table, cutting off your Netflix subscription should be the first thing any red-blooded American with any sense of decency does posthaste.

It has never been easier to be a part of the problem if you continue to subscribe or the solution if you cancel today.
Ha...

Netflix (NFLX) is on the brink of 150 million subscribers.
The streaming company added a record 9.6 million new subscribers in the first quarter of 2019,
 

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I'm so glad I got rid of Netflix. I sure as hell won't spend money on it ever again.

But I will go to another's house and binge watch Black Mirror and Stranger Things. So I guess I'm not doing the whole-hearted boycott I really want to do. Darn them for having two good shows I want to see.
Why can't you watch it online ?
 

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Why can't you watch it online ?
Netflix is a paid service. If Rainierland still had current streaming shows and movies for free, it would be a possibility. I'm not techie enough to know which sites wouldn't give my computer a virus so I don't try to find ways around things.
 

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https://www.newswars.com/cnn-promotes-down-syndrome-drag-queens/

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CNN Promotes Down Syndrome Drag Queens
Mainstream media exploits individuals with genetic disorder to push trans agenda
By Kelen McBreen | INFOWARS.COM Wednesday, June 05, 2019

CNN released a controversial video on Friday promoting a drag troupe comprised of individuals with Down syndrome.

The video has over four million views on Facebook and has been shared 25,000 times.

Daniel Vais, the creative director of the group called Drag Syndrome, admits he introduced drag to the individuals who hadn’t been interested before.

He previously worked with Culture Device Dance Project, a contemporary dance group of dancers with Down syndrome, and says one day he asked some of the performers “Would you like to do drag?”

“They got so excited. They started researching drag,” Vais sais, proving the Drag Syndrome performers were unfamiliar with the culture before he implanted the idea.

“Gaia Callas – she’s a very, very naughty character,” one of the group members said, referring to his drag persona.

CNN isn’t the only mainstream media outlet to promote the group, with BBC, Viceand NBC also publishing videos and stories about Drag Syndrome.

This establishment is targeting the most vulnerable members of society with the trans agenda as Drag Queen Story Hour indoctrinates children and Drag Syndrome exploits people with learning disabilities.
 

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Netflix originals are going the route of social programming and all are tearing down tradition while normalizing chaotic, confused people. It is a beast with concern to popularity but it is so clear to see how they want to engineer a new think era.
 

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Oof I wanna vomit sorry for using such words
but I had to scroll quickly because it’s sickening. I felt nauseous for a moment.

I feel sorry for those children. I hope when they are older and understand better, they will able to leave that wickedness.
 

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10-Year-Old Drag Queen To Perform At “Family Friendly” All Ages Pride Event
by Brock Simmons June 7, 2019 156 Comments

The left’s obsession with exploiting children for sexual fantasies comes to Portland (of course), as yet another drag kid is trotted out to strut his stuff. 10-year-old ‘Sparkle Lynn More’ is one of the guest performers at an all ages, family friendly pride event Friday evening. While most of these drag kid events tend to take place in front of adult audiences, this one is targeted at young children, and it will also feature adult performers. It takes place at the not-at-all-suspiciously-named Friendly House.

But this isn’t Sparkle More’s first foray into performing in drag. He recently appeared at a fundraiser for the ACLU. which featured a man marrying a boyfriend made out of boxed wine boxes. Sparkle also appeared in drag on stage as part of a play by Martha Wainwright.

Evidently one of Sparkle’s co-performers is a drag clown kid?



Here are a few highlights from his instagram page, @lovesparklemore, which feature him with several adult drag performers and fellow drag kid, Queen Lactatia:







Last fall, ‘Sparkle Lynn More’ and his mother, Michelle Porter, sat down with someone named Svetlana Trantastic for an extended interview. Porter says that Sparkle was inspired by watching Drag Race on TV and they went to an all ages drag show at Darcelle’s, and soon started putting on his own performances and making friends with people in the Portland drag community. Porter says “It’s far more dangerous to not support him” and says it’d be damaging to sway Sparkle away from the drag life. Ironically, Porter says of her critics “You let a boy put a dress on, and immediately people want to sexualize it. That’s where our society’s brain goes, when really, there’s nothing sexual about a 10 year old in a dress.”

The video also features Sparkle prancing around in a small pool while wearing a mermaid outfit, with Svetlana lounging in a hammock.
 

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The names of adult drag queens are highly sexualized in general. How can they claim that drag is not "sexualized"? And that photo of all those boys in short shorts and bikini tops posing in "sexy" poses -- are the parents blind? Sure, a boy putting on a regular little girl's dress and running around wouldn't necessarily be sexualized -- after all, most little girls clothing is modest for the very reason that we don't want them looking too "sexy" (as if a child could EVER look sexy). But, this is not what they are doing. Drag performers also do plenty of moves that emulate strippers -- and I've seen videos of of that Desmond kid where he is doing that same kind of thing. I mean, what's next? Taking your little girls to strip clubs and putting up a pole in your house so they can practice stripper moves? If that isn't okay -- why is letting boys emulate drag queens okay?

I HATE drag. As a woman -- I think of it as the gender equivalent of black face. Even by progressive standards, it is based on demeaning stereotypes performed by a privileged class (Men) dressing up in a caricature of an oppressed class (Women). Someone who is transgender or a transvestite (who wants to look like a real woman) isn't the same as this. At least they are trying to look like real women. Drag Queens are MAKING FUN of women. And they get a pass because, hey, they fall under that LGBQT umbrella so we can't criticize them. Encouraging kids -- especially boys -- to make fun of women? In what universe is that considered "liberating" or "progressive"?

This is child abuse. Period. Those kids should be taken away from their parents. What they are doing is, as another poster on VC said, exactly the same as those child beauty pageants like the kind JonBenet Ramsey was involved in. They are parading kids around and making them act "sexy" for the pleasure of a bunch of pedos. And I know it is very un-Christian of me, but I can't help but wish we could round up every pedo and string 'em up on lampposts as a warning that pedos will be not be tolerated in this country. I generally believe that even the worst of people can be rehabilitated -- but there are 2 groups that keep me from being completely anti-death penalty: serial killers and pedophiles. And, honestly, I'm not even sure which one of those 2 is the worst. I'm leaning towards the p***phile.
 

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You guys are misinformed... this show is not about child drag queens, it's about a girl's dance team. The children aren't little boys, and they aren't drag queens, they're teenage girls. And they're professional dancers that work with their team to win competitions. The reason why the show is called Dancing Queen is because the dance instructor himself is also a drag queen as well as owning a dance school/studio and being a professional dance coach. But the show itself is directly equivalent to the show Dance Moms. It's basically just competitive children's dance teams. The only difference between this show and Dance Moms is that in this show, the dance coach also happens to be a drag queen and the show is set in Texas.
 
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You guys are misinformed... this show is not about child drag queens, it's about a girl's dance team. The children aren't little boys, and they aren't drag queens, they're teenage girls. And they're professional dancers that work with their team to win competitions. The reason why the show is called Dancing Queen is because the dance instructor himself is also a drag queen as well as owning a dance studio and being a professional dance coach. But the show itself is directly equivalent to the show Dance Moms. It's basically just competitive children's dance teams. The only difference between this show and Dance Moms is that in this show, the dance coach also happens to be a drag queen and the show is set in Texas.
I haven't seen the show, so you are right -- I am misinformed about the actual premise of the show. I'm relieved to be wrong. It makes it slightly more palatable (but only slightly) -- but I still don't know why there needs to be a show about a drag queen teaching young girls how to dance. Drag is offensive. It would be like having a white guy who does minstrel shows in his spare time teaching a bunch of black kids how to perform. Inappropriate and not something I would expose my kids to. Drag is an ADULT genre. I wouldn't let a stripper teach my kids how to dance (or teach pretty much anything). So, why would I let a drag queen do it? Just because it is hip and trendy to throw drag queens into any and everything doesn't make it right. They shouldn't do drag at all -- but if they must, they should keep it to an age appropriate venue.

And those are not teenage girls. They are pre-teens. Maybe one or two might have reached age 13 -- but most in that picture are not. They are way too young to be exposed to drag culture.
 

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but I still don't know why there needs to be a show about a drag queen teaching young girls how to dance
He is a professional dance coach and it's his job. He is also a drag queen but that doesn't take away from his ability to teach people how to dance. He doesn't even do drag when he's teaching. And simply being a drag queen doesn't make him a bad or dangerous person. And it doesn't mean that he can't have other hobbies.
Drag is offensive. It would be like having a white guy who does minstrel shows in his spare time teaching a bunch of black kids how to perform.
That's your opinion. I don't think doing drag is equivalent to racism or sexism. Any individual drag queen can behave in a sexist manner that is harmful towards women, but many of them do not. Most drag queens are not trying to mock women, they are just playing around with exaggerated ideas of femininity. They don't hate women. Same for Drag Kings, they are just expressing exaggerated masculinity, they are not mocking men or trying to be sexist towards men. People who do drag have the same propensity to be misogynistic or express harmful ideas as anyone else, they aren't automatically bad or sexist. Women aren't defined by having long hair and wearing high heels anyway.
Drag is an ADULT genre. I wouldn't let a stripper teach my kids how to dance (or teach pretty much anything).
There can be adult components to drag but it doesn't always exist within an adult context. People can do drag without adding any component of sexuality... drag is just clothing and a persona, and that persona doesn't have to be a sexual one. A drag queen is simply a person... and that person can behave in a sexual or a non-sexual way just as anyone else can. So when they're around children, they obviously wouldn't behave inappropriately. Drag queens aren't strippers. The dance coach is not teaching the girl's how to strip, he's simply teaching them to dance.
 
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He is a professional dance coach and it's his job. He is also a drag queen but that doesn't take away from his ability to teach people how to dance. He doesn't even do drag when he's teaching. And simply being a drag queen doesn't make him a bad or dangerous person. And it doesn't mean that he can't have other hobbies.

That's your opinion. I don't think doing drag is equivalent to racism or sexism. Any individual drag queen can behave in a sexist manner that is harmful towards women, but many of them do not. Most drag queens are not trying to mock women, they are just playing around with exaggerated femininity. Same for Drag Kings, they are just expressing exaggerated masculinity, they are not mocking men or trying to be sexist towards men.

There can be adult components to drag but it doesn't always exist within an adult context. People can do drag without adding any component of sexuality... drag is just clothing and a persona, and that persona doesn't have to be a sexual one. A drag queen is simply a person... and that person can behave in a sexual or a non-sexual way just as anyone else can. So when they're around children, they obviously wouldn't behave inappropriately. Drag queens aren't strippers. The dance coach is not teaching the girl's how to strip, he's simply teaching them to dance.
If he is just a drag queen on the side, why does that need to be featured on the show? Because it is part of an agenda to normalize drag. "Exaggerated femininity" is another way of saying "female stereotypes". People get upset when their culture is appropriated and worn for entertainment (like Halloween) -- how is this any different than that?

And, even if he isn't teaching them stripping, I still wouldn't want him teaching my child anything. Dressed in drag or not. I'd feel the same way if he was doing something other than drag that I found repugnant. I don't care if he is the greatest dancer in the history of dance -- if he doesn't respect my gender and understand how it is disrespectful to do what he does, that isn't the kind of person I want around my child.

And, honestly, I get really tired of people telling me that my feelings about drag are wrong or don't matter. If we can pass laws that make it a crime to misgender a person because of how it makes them feel -- I think I have the right to say how drag makes me, as a woman, feel. I don't care what they intend to do with drag -- because, good intentions or not, it is still offensive. I hope that some day we will progress enough where drag gets relegated to the dustbin of history and people see it for the offensive and insensitive thing that it actually is. I have hope that one day -- women will matter as much as men in drag.
 

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A lot of people condemn kids in drag because of the risk of early exposure of drag lifestyle for these kids. A lot of kids are prematurely sexualized if they are exposed to this because we know how drags usually hang out in their circle.
Then again, it's all the same, kids beauty pageant and drag kids show, all of this is just a feast in the eyes of pedophiles.
i mean look at this kid https://www.dangerous.com/49809/half-naked-10-year-old-boy-dances-on-stage-for-money-at-adult-gay-bar-in-new-york/

 

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If he is just a drag queen on the side, why does that need to be featured on the show?
His drag persona is a prominent part of his personality and including it also makes the show unique... I don't see why he has to exclude that side of himself in the first place. The show would literally be a carbon copy of Dance Moms if they didn't include a little bit of flare and some of his personality in the show. It makes the show more entertaining to people and that's what TV shows want... that's how TV shows work.
Because it is part of an agenda to normalize drag.
Lol ok... I'm pretty sure most people are already aware of drag though.
"Exaggerated femininity" is another way of saying "female stereotypes". People get upset when their culture is appropriated and worn for entertainment (like Halloween) -- how is this any different than that?
Yes exactly... playing around with and challenging stereotypical ideas of femininity is not an attack on women. Like I said, women are not defined by stereotypes. Most people don't do drag to be sexist and drag can easily be done in a non-sexist way. Drag is often used as a way to challenge and critique gender roles and open up a conversation on them. And both men and women do drag. Drag is typically an expression of the suppressed aspects of a person's gender and a way for them to break through the boundaries of gender roles.

Wearing a dress is not appropriating women... women can and do wear any type of clothing, they aren't defined by dresses or high heels. They don't have sole ownership that kind of clothing. Women aren't mocking or appropriating men when they wear a button up shirt or a suit and tie. Any person can wear clothes that society considers feminine or masculine. A person's sex isn't defined or determined by their clothes, and the way that society genders clothing shifts through time. Drag queens don't even dress in regular women's clothing... they have elaborate costumes, wigs, and makeup that the average woman on the street does not wear.
if he doesn't respect my gender and understand how it is disrespectful to do what he does, that isn't the kind of person I want around my child.
Um, alright... but I really don't think he's a sexist person and he didn't do anything disrespectful. Neither are all drag queens sexist. Drag can definitely be done in a sexist way just as anything else can be, but it also is certainly not always sexist. It depends on the way that it's done and the viewpoint of the person who's doing it. Having a drag persona doesn't make you sexist, unless you use that persona in a sexist way. There's good drag and bad drag... but to say that all drag is bad/sexist is just inaccurate to reality. And I don't know what your personal qualms have to do with this show anyway. I'm only explaining what the show is.
If we can pass laws that make it a crime to misgender a person because of how it makes them feel -- I think I have the right to say how drag makes me, as a woman, feel.
There is no such law, but okay. And no one has told you that you can't say what you feel... I've already seen you express your distaste for drag multiple times on this forum. I'm also female and drag as a concept is not offensive to me, I can recognize when it's done in a sexist way and I do oppose that but I can also recognize when it's harmless. It's fine if you don't like drag, I understand your perspective... but I only responded to this thread to explain the context of the show, not to argue about a complex topic.
 
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Portland's Queer Community Steps Up to Protect 10-Year-Old Harassed for Performing Drag
by Alex Zielinski • Jun 11, 2019 at 9:04 am


Sparkle Lynn More MICHELLE PORTER


Pride week in Portland has always been an important holiday in Michelle Porter's family. With two of her five children identifying as queer, Porter says, the annual event—with its colorful parades and performances—has become a fun way to celebrate her kids and support the local LGBTQ+ community.
This year, however, Porter says she's afraid to bring her family to any Portland Pride events.

That's because a few alt-right bloggers have used photos and videos of her 10-year-old son dressed in drag to spread anti-LGBTQ+ messaging across the internet, exposing Porter and her family to death threats and violent hate speech.

"It's so damaging and so, so ugly," says Porter, who hasn't slept the past few nights out of fear and anxiety about her family's safety. "And for this to take place during Pride—a time when I should be celebrating my kid and letting him have fun—it couldn't be worse."

Porter's son has been targeted for putting on drag performances in Portland.

Porter says her son, a "self-confident, flamboyant kid" who has presented himself as gender non-conforming since birth, became interested in drag two years ago after watching RuPaul's Drag Race. After learning that Portland had a thriving drag scene of its own, he begged his mom to take him to a show—and she complied.

"As soon as Sparkle saw them perform, he wanted to be a part of it," Porter says. She asked the Mercury to only refer to her son by his drag name, Sparkle Lynn More, for privacy.

Not long after, Sparkle began participating in family-friendly drag shows with local drag queens. Porter says the local drag community's support of her son's work has been "life-giving."

"He's a kid that doesn't always fit in," she says. "He doesn't have a whole lot of friends. [Drag] has become such a critical outlet for him. It's where he can be himself... it's been amazing for him."


Sparkle Lynn More (right) with actor Neil Patrick Harris MICHELLE PORTER

On June 7, alt-right blog Gateway Pundit released a transphobic diatribe against a family-friendly Portland Pride event featuring Sparkle that took place later that day at Friendly House. The disturbing blog post sexualized children who dress in the opposite gender's clothes and scolded parents who let their kids do such a thing. It also shared photos from Sparkle's Instagram account, which is controlled by Porter.
Porter was immediately hit with death threats and homophobic tirades. Not long after, Porter got a notice that Sparkle's Instagram account has been flagged as inappropriate and was going to be deleted. Instagram is under the impression the account is run by Sparkle, not her mother, meaning it broke the app's 13-and-older account policy.

Porter is one of thousands of parents in the US who run an Instagram account for their kid, whether its just a baby in silly poses or a tiny fashion icon. Most of these underage Instagram influencers are used to sell products—and not all of them are even aware they're being used as an income source. That's not the case for Sparkle, whose mom only uses the account to promote performances and connect with other parents whose kids do drag.

Porter says there's one big different between her son's page and the thousands of other kid-centric accounts that aren't taken down by Instagram: Her son is queer.

"It's a homophobic move by Instagram," says Porter. "It shows the power that right-wing jerks have to silence the queer community online."

Hours after the Gateway Pundit article was published on June 7, a man attended Sparkle's performance and quietly filmed the entire show, later posting it online with homophobic captions dubbing adult drag queens as "pedophiles" and audience members as "sex offenders." Pictures he took of Sparkle quickly spread across the internet's anti-LGBTQ+ circles.

Porter remembers seeing the man at the show, but assumed he was affiliated with Friendly House.

"He was standing right next to me and my family the whole time," says Porter. "I only realized after the fact that it was on purpose."

Porter reported the man to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) on Monday. But the officer she met with said that without an obvious threat or blatant anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech, law enforcement couldn't do much to hold Sparkle's attackers accountable.

In lieu of police protection, Porter has found security in another organization, one whose history is built on systematic indifference by law enforcement.

"The queer community has been amazing," Porter says. "They're used to the police not stepping up to protect their community. So they know how to take care of each other."

Leaders in Portland's queer community have quickly proliferated a photo of the man who filmed Sparkle, making sure he's not welcome at any Portland Pride events or in any LGBTQ+ venues. Many have reached out to Porter to offer security services and protection for her family during this particularly frightening time. And Portland's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a LGBTQ+ charity group that (quite literally) act as the "nuns of the gay community", have invited Sparkle to join them in Portland's Pride parade—promising security and support.

"That's the beautiful piece of this," Porter says. "The queer community shows up for each other here in Portland. That means they're showing up for my child, too. As a mom, that's everything."
 
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Portland's Queer Community Steps Up to Protect 10-Year-Old Harassed for Performing Drag
by Alex Zielinski • Jun 11, 2019 at 9:04 am


Sparkle Lynn More MICHELLE PORTER


Pride week in Portland has always been an important holiday in Michelle Porter's family. With two of her five children identifying as queer, Porter says, the annual event—with its colorful parades and performances—has become a fun way to celebrate her kids and support the local LGBTQ+ community.
This year, however, Porter says she's afraid to bring her family to any Portland Pride events.

That's because a few alt-right bloggers have used photos and videos of her 10-year-old son dressed in drag to spread anti-LGBTQ+ messaging across the internet, exposing Porter and her family to death threats and violent hate speech.

"It's so damaging and so, so ugly," says Porter, who hasn't slept the past few nights out of fear and anxiety about her family's safety. "And for this to take place during Pride—a time when I should be celebrating my kid and letting him have fun—it couldn't be worse."

Porter's son has been targeted for putting on drag performances in Portland.

Porter says her son, a "self-confident, flamboyant kid" who has presented himself as gender non-conforming since birth, became interested in drag two years ago after watching RuPaul's Drag Race. After learning that Portland had a thriving drag scene of its own, he begged his mom to take him to a show—and she complied.

"As soon as Sparkle saw them perform, he wanted to be a part of it," Porter says. She asked the Mercury to only refer to her son by his drag name, Sparkle Lynn More, for privacy.

Not long after, Sparkle began participating in family-friendly drag shows with local drag queens. Porter says the local drag community's support of her son's work has been "life-giving."

"He's a kid that doesn't always fit in," she says. "He doesn't have a whole lot of friends. [Drag] has become such a critical outlet for him. It's where he can be himself... it's been amazing for him."


Sparkle Lynn More (right) with actor Neil Patrick Harris MICHELLE PORTER

On June 7, alt-right blog Gateway Pundit released a transphobic diatribe against a family-friendly Portland Pride event featuring Sparkle that took place later that day at Friendly House. The disturbing blog post sexualized children who dress in the opposite gender's clothes and scolded parents who let their kids do such a thing. It also shared photos from Sparkle's Instagram account, which is controlled by Porter.
Porter was immediately hit with death threats and homophobic tirades. Not long after, Porter got a notice that Sparkle's Instagram account has been flagged as inappropriate and was going to be deleted. Instagram is under the impression the account is run by Sparkle, not her mother, meaning it broke the app's 13-and-older account policy.

Porter is one of thousands of parents in the US who run an Instagram account for their kid, whether its just a baby in silly poses or a tiny fashion icon. Most of these underage Instagram influencers are used to sell products—and not all of them are even aware they're being used as an income source. That's not the case for Sparkle, whose mom only uses the account to promote performances and connect with other parents whose kids do drag.

Porter says there's one big different between her son's page and the thousands of other kid-centric accounts that aren't taken down by Instagram: Her son is queer.

"It's a homophobic move by Instagram," says Porter. "It shows the power that right-wing jerks have to silence the queer community online."

Hours after the Gateway Pundit article was published on June 7, a man attended Sparkle's performance and quietly filmed the entire show, later posting it online with homophobic captions dubbing adult drag queens as "pedophiles" and audience members as "sex offenders." Pictures he took of Sparkle quickly spread across the internet's anti-LGBTQ+ circles.

Porter remembers seeing the man at the show, but assumed he was affiliated with Friendly House.

"He was standing right next to me and my family the whole time," says Porter. "I only realized after the fact that it was on purpose."

Porter reported the man to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) on Monday. But the officer she met with said that without an obvious threat or blatant anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech, law enforcement couldn't do much to hold Sparkle's attackers accountable.

In lieu of police protection, Porter has found security in another organization, one whose history is built on systematic indifference by law enforcement.

"The queer community has been amazing," Porter says. "They're used to the police not stepping up to protect their community. So they know how to take care of each other."

Leaders in Portland's queer community have quickly proliferated a photo of the man who filmed Sparkle, making sure he's not welcome at any Portland Pride events or in any LGBTQ+ venues. Many have reached out to Porter to offer security services and protection for her family during this particularly frightening time. And Portland's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a LGBTQ+ charity group that (quite literally) act as the "nuns of the gay community", have invited Sparkle to join them in Portland's Pride parade—promising security and support.

"That's the beautiful piece of this," Porter says. "The queer community shows up for each other here in Portland. That means they're showing up for my child, too. As a mom, that's everything."
 
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wow !!!!..and the train keeps rolling.....and the conductor is LGBTQ+..OK ????...where it will stop nobody knows..!!!!.. all I can say is ..recognize people these are chidren...my opinion is ..they are being used ..first by their families.(.its always the moms ,,less threatening)..nothing to see here... then these children are being used by special interest groups...all these articles say .".it was Rupauls drag race" that sparked interest in these young boys..there is your special interest..jmo..
 
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