Signs of the Times: LGBT community celebrates 8-year-old drag queen. Critics call it child abuse
The bawdy, homosexuality-infused world of female impersonators is celebrating
an eight-year-old Montreal boy who performs as a “drag queen” under the
stage name “Lactatia.” But pro-family critics say his parents and all
adults who encourage the boy to participate in the lewd shows are guilty
of “child abuse.”
Thanks
to “gay” media, the cross-dressing boy, Nemis Quinn Mélançon-Golden, is
becoming a social media star after appearing on stage in late May with
vulgar drag queen “Bianca Del Rio” at the Montreal stop of the "Werq the World Tour."
Del Rio tells Nemis — wearing red eye-liner, lipstick, painted nails, a
curly, blond wig and dressed in a black woman’s gown with sequins —
that he is “adorable.”
Social conservatives outraged
Like every other pro-family advocate shown the video of young Nemis in “drag,” Illinois Family Institute
cultural writer Laurie Higgins was aghast at the specter of a young boy
embracing the “drag queen” lifestyle, telling LifeSiteNews, “This is
unambiguous and shameful child abuse. Through the ‘trans’ cult movement,
evil is being promoted as good, and innocent women and children are the
victims."
Drag
shows feature campy men dressing up as crude caricatures of women —
with grotesque bouffant hairdos and gaudy dresses — engaging in catty,
often sodomitic jokes slamming other “queens” and lip-syncing
over-the-top impersonations of pop-culture divas like Cher and Britney
Spears.
Historically
an important part of “gay” culture, drag shows are now a fixture of
urban entertainment, attracting both homosexuals and straights.
In a “Best Kept Montreal” video
(now approaching 700,000 views), Del Rio jokes about giving the boy “a
shot” (of liquor) and calls him a “bitch,” applying the typical drag
putdown-vernacular to the child. After "Lactatia" picks another drag
queen as his favorite, Del Rio says, "Even though I'm not your favorite,
you're my [f—k-n’] favorite.”
“Lactatia
… I love the fact that you're here. What I love most about this is that
your mom is here with you, supporting you," says Del Rio, pointing to
Nemis’ mother in the audience, as the crowd roars in approval.
Mom applies makeup for son’s “drag” persona
In a follow-up video put out by “LGBT in the City,”
Nemis’ mother is shown happily applying exaggerated feminine makeup to
the boy’s face as they prepared for the Montreal drag show. His parents
are fully supportive of Nevis’ dream to be a drag star.
In an interview with the parents, Best
Kept Montreal writer Riley James gushes, “To see a family so in tune
with their child’s inner superstar is something very special, we must
take note. I was lucky enough to have a chance to speak with the
up-and-coming drag star’s parents, and the love I felt in their words
about Nemis and Lactatia is overwhelming!”
The
parents’ comments begin: “When Nemis is out of character, he identifies
as a boy and in drag as a girl. Drag for Nemis is about the
performance, the character. When he’s Lactatia, becoming her character, he’s a girl with a penis.
“As
far as gender roles go, we’ve gifted both of our children with the
ideal that there’s nothing just for girls and nothing just for boys. He
grew up wearing his sister’s hand me down princess costumes and fancy
shoes while playing with monster trucks and riding a skateboard,” they
said.
In the video,
Nemis, who already owns five female wigs, confirms his parents’
account: “I've been getting into drag since I was seven, but literally
I've been into wearing dresses and being into girls stuff since I was
three."
He
gives an impromptu act for the camera, imitating the campy style of
adult homosexual “drag queens” as he says, "I think that anyone can do
what they want in life. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. … If
you want to be a drag queen and your parents don't let you, you need new
parents.” The words "YOU NEED NEW PARENTS" in capital letters appear on
the screen as he talks.
“If
you want to be a drag queen and your friends don't let you, you need
new friends!” says the precocious boy, as “YOU NEED NEW FRIENDS” pops up
on the video, which has soared to more than 36,000 YouTube views in
just five days.
LGBT in the City describes the boy as follows: “Who
said eight years old was too young to be a superstar!!!!!...[Nemis] has
been taking dance classes for more than a year and today is performing
in a dance competition. You go girl and show them how it's done.
“The
parents are always with Lactatia in all public events when he performs
in drag so don't worry people this kid is always in a safe and secure
environment,” it states. “Lactatia you rock our world and you are a true
inspiration for a lot of people !!!”
Child abuse, say Christian critics
But
family advocates including two former homosexuals said the drag queen
world is about as far from a “safe and secure environment” as a child
can get. They slammed the boy’s parents as recklessly endangering the
boy and guiding him into a destructive future filled with perversion.
“Look
at the parents. Look at the mother. This is all about them promoting
themselves at the expense of their son,” Greg Quinlan told LifeSiteNews.
“A child cannot be sacrificed at the expense of the parents’ dreams and
aspirations.”
Quinlan, a former “gay” activist and founder and president of the Center for Garden State Families, said, “This child is already involved in homosexuality. He’s involved in all that is ‘gay,’ and his parents are blessing it.”
He said, “The Western world has surpassed Sodom” in its evil.
Another pro-family leader who came out of the homosexual lifestyle agreed.
“We
are witnessing the LGBTQ+ community embrace child abuse by cultivating
mental illness by promoting ‘drag’ in a child. It doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to know this will eventually lead to sexual play,” said
Stephen Black, an ex-“gay” and childhood sexual abuse victim himself who
is now a Christian family man and the executive director of First Stone Ministries, based in Oklahoma City.
“Today we are seeing — truly, right before our eyes — a
moral decline like we have never witnessed, a demented mindset that
calls evil good, and good evil. The Bible predicted these days would
come and we are surely in them,” Black told LifeSiteNews.
Higgins said, "Fifty
years ago, parents who permitted a young son to attend drag queen
events, let alone participate in them, would have justifiably lost
custody of him."
She noted the “sick, repellent irony” that just a couple of days ago Ontario passed a law
that “would allow the government to confiscate children whose parents
refuse to affirm their disordered desire and futile quest to be the
opposite sex — while the parents of this little boy are celebrated for
immersing him in a culture of adult perversion.”
‘Gay’ media love ‘Lactatia’
In
the starkest of contrasts, homosexual and pop-culture media are avidly
promoting “Lactatia” — a drag name that Nemis said he and his
14-year-old sister Kashmyr came up with. He calls her his “Senior Drag
Consultant.”
The homosexual news blog Towleroad reported with excitement on May 31 that the eight-year-old "stole the show" at the Montreal stop of the "Werq the World Tour."
Towleroad
founder and writer Andy Towle expressed no concern about corrupting the
boy in his piece, which includes the video of adult drag queen Bianca
Del Rio spewing profanity as she talks to the young boy, "You're
[f--k—g] adorable.”
Similarly, “drag queen” icon RuPaul, creator of the LOGO show “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” promoted Lactatia via Twitter. In an interview with Gay Times,
Nemis said that if he got a chance to meet RuPaul, “I would probably
tell her that she is my idol and has inspired me to be a drag queen.”
(RuPaul is a man, born RuPaul Andre Charles.)
Parents: ‘Maybe’ Nemis will become ‘gay’
Nemis’ parents, Jessica Mélançon and Coriander Golden, described themselves in the interview as “huge allies in this scene” of drag performing. They admit that “we’re not like most moms and dads.”
“Instead
of Saturday morning soccer practice, we have Vogue classes. [“Voguing”
is an extreme dance style popular in drag circles.] When we go clothes
shopping, it’s equal parts black skinny jeans and skulls as it is
sequins and tulle.”
Nemis’
parents say the boy “understands that a majority of [drag] Queens are
gay.” They told Best Kept Montreal, “It’s something we’ve talked a lot
about at length because he expressed his concern that people wouldn’t
think he was a ‘real’ drag queen or take him seriously because he
doesn’t feel like he’s gay.”
“Maybe he will [adopt a ‘gay’ identity] in the future? Who
knows,” they said. “Luckily for him, he has his whole life to figure out
that aspect of himself, but for the time being, he’s content to find
heels in his size and own his [sh-t]!”
They said they are “hoping that Nemis inspires more parents
to be unconditionally accepting of their children and inspires more
kids to embrace themselves completely!”
Real choices?
But ex-“gay” Quinlan dismissed the idea that the boy’s parents truly are encouraging him to make his own choices.
“The early sexualization of any child is wrong, and
illegal,” he said, noting that the parents are “intrinsically
responsible” for the child.
“They’re not giving him any choice for the future. They’re telling the child what his future will be,” he said.
Noting the high degree of deviant sex, drugs and crude
nastiness that is what the homosexual “drag scene is all about,” he said
that beyond Nemis’ parents, every adult who is involved in promoting
the eight-year-old boy as a “drag queen” is guilty of “child abuse and
child endangerment.”
“Is there a sane person who identifies as LGBT who will come out and say, ‘This is wrong’?” Quinlan asked.
