Ten-Year-Old 'Drag kid' Launches 'Drag Club' for Kids - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]A young boy from New York has created the first ever drag club specifically for children. Desmond Napoles is a 10-year-old self-professed 'drag kid' from Brooklyn. Ever since Napoles was a baby, he would wrap his mother’s towels around his body, don her heels and unleash his inner sass by strutting around the house. Napoles says he realised he was gay at a young age when he started developing crushes on boys. At first, Napoles’ mother Wendylou thought her son may be transgender due to his affinity for feminine clothing. “When we was younger, we thought that maybe he was trans because of his strong preference for girls’ toys and wearing girls’ clothes,” she told Out. Napoles, known on social media as Desmond is Amazing, was first spotted by the masses wearing an extravagant rainbow-coloured outfit while dancing flamboyantly at the New York Pride Parade in 2015 in a video that circulated the web. He has since become an icon within the LGBTQ community, with more than 15,000 followers on Instagram following his every fabulous move. Since gaining a greater presence on social media, many have reached out to Napoles to tell him how inspirational he is to people around the world. ... With that in mind, Napoles decided to created the very first drag club just for kids so that they could have a safe place to express themselves as fully as possible. “People should be able to be free and let themselves express how they want, whenever they want,” he told Out. "Let them be [his or herself], and if you don’t like how people are, you don’t like yourself.” ...[/quote] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/drag-club-children-boy-founds-set-up-ten-year-old-desmond-napoles-haus-of-amazing-brooklyn-new-york-a8139956.html[/url] [url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boy-10-who-came-out-11790142[/url]

Adorable.

Sure why not

[QUOTE=Tudd;53025486]Since gaining a greater presence on social media, many have reached out to Napoles to tell him how inspirational he is to people around the world. [b]“We get messages from people, like in Colombia, saying, ‘We’re not allowed to be outwardly [in] drag or gay and it means a lot to see somebody that is’,” Wendylou told Out.[/b] With that in mind, Napoles decided to created the very first drag club just for kids so that they could have a safe place to express themselves as fully as possible. [/QUOTE] Seems weird to me that you'd cut that line specifically out. Also, I'd like to point out that this club is essentially an [url=https://www.instagram.com/hausofamazing/]instagram page with two posts[/url].

I wish I'd had my shit figured out by age 10. This kiddo's going to be someone special and important in the future, I think.

I was thinking Drag racing for kids when i read the title, Welp

[QUOTE]He recently shared a post via the Haus of Amazing Instagram page, telling any haters: “You will not change me - I will always be myself, always.” “[B]You will never stop me - I am the future[/B]."[/QUOTE] I AM GROWING STRONGER EVERY DAY

i really don't think kids that young should be on social media

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;53025539]i really don't think kids that young should be on social media[/QUOTE] TBH that's not gonna happen The weird and uncomfortable fact of modern life is that the majority of kids have extremely easy access to not just social media, but any amount of violent content/politics/porn that they want with no restrictions. Which is kind of a first for humanity. Future generations are going to end up being very 'interesting' adults

[QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;53025532]I was thinking Drag racing for kids when i read the title, Welp[/QUOTE] I thought it was a club where kids smoke

[QUOTE=Paramud;53025529]Seems weird to me that you'd cut that line specifically out. [/QUOTE] Well yeah, the reasoning behind it is fairly obvious. [t]http://madison365.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/maxresdefault-3.jpg[/t] [editline]3rd January 2018[/editline] [QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;53025539]i really don't think kids that young should be on social media[/QUOTE] As a "child of the internet" I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. [editline]3rd January 2018[/editline] Then again, avoiding social media entirely this day in age seems difficult, unless you locked children away from internet access.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;53025531]I wish I'd had my shit figured out by age 10. This kiddo's going to be someone special and important in the future, I think.[/QUOTE] The hidden danger with kids this young is they mostly [I]don't[/I] have things figured out. Lots of adults don't have things figured out either and end up doing things they regret just as well even late in life. So long as people, including kids, come to realize and naturally accept who and what they are, coolbeans, but this takes time and introspection - something kids are usually not known for practicing, not to mention without external stimuli (parents, social media, social circles etc). That being said, this particular kid mentioned having felt inclined to do girly stuff and developed crushes on boys quite early, so he seems to be confident that this is who he is. Congratulations to him for developing the confidence to show what he wants to show the world. That is commendable for someone so young.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;53025553]TBH that's not gonna happen The weird and uncomfortable fact of modern life is that the majority of kids have extremely easy access to not just social media, but any amount of violent content/politics/porn that they want with no restrictions. Which is kind of a first for humanity. Future generations are going to end up being very 'interesting' adults[/QUOTE] my fear is that people with horrible intentions now have far greater access to impressionable kids, grooming made terrifyingly easy.

[QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;53025532]I was thinking Drag racing for kids when i read the title, Welp[/QUOTE] I could get behind that! [editline]4th January 2018[/editline] [QUOTE=BANNED USER;53025561]Well yeah, the reasoning behind it is fairly obvious. [t]http://madison365.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/maxresdefault-3.jpg[/t] [editline]3rd January 2018[/editline] As a "child of the internet" I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. [editline]3rd January 2018[/editline] Then again, avoiding social media entirely this day in age seems difficult, unless you locked children away from internet access.[/QUOTE] Idunno, I do a pretty good job of it. You wont find me on any social networks. Forums, sure, but they're less 'social media' and more 'Online Q/A board'.

How cute. Good for them. Didn't know you changed your grand scheme to overtake discourse on fp to posting wholesome stuff.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;53025553]TBH that's not gonna happen The weird and uncomfortable fact of modern life is that the majority of kids have extremely easy access to not just social media, but any amount of violent content/politics/porn that they want with no restrictions. Which is kind of a first for humanity. Future generations are going to end up being very 'interesting' adults[/QUOTE] I mean to be fair that's how it's been for much of human history. Hop back a few hundred years (if that) and you had kids sleeping in their parent's beds while they had sex, you had public hangings, you had animals butchered in the street (with streets even being specifically designed to drain the blood), etc, etc. I mean dang, kids used to smoke as a norm, and you had elementary-aged children working to support their families 100 years ago. It's only really in the last fraction of our existence that we've been sheltering children from this stuff - it sort of interesting that sort of exposure is coming back

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[QUOTE=TestECull;53025625]I could get behind that! [editline]4th January 2018[/editline] Idunno, I do a pretty good job of it. You wont find me on any social networks. Forums, sure, but they're less 'social media' and more 'Online Q/A board'.[/QUOTE] I'd consider Facepunch social media. [editline]4th January 2018[/editline] These 14k posts didn't make themselves after all.

[QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;53025532]I was thinking Drag racing for kids when i read the title, Welp[/QUOTE] I thought it was some kind of drag gang where you grab and drag people around. This is nice though.

Drag (and any public performance) is a great confidence booster and you make a lot of friends doing it. Good for him.

[QUOTE=Paramud;53025529]Seems weird to me that you'd cut that line specifically out. Also, I'd like to point out that this club is essentially an [url=https://www.instagram.com/hausofamazing/]instagram page with two posts[/url].[/QUOTE] Weird for Republicans or weird in general?

[QUOTE=Paramud;53025529]Seems weird to me that you'd cut that line specifically out. [/QUOTE] Or it is just simply I can't include the full article and there was some parts I had to take out. Like that part which is nice to know motivation, but it doesn't ultimately matter for disseminating the details.

[QUOTE=Tudd;53026647]Or it is just simply I can't include the full article and there was some parts I had to take out. Like that part which is nice to know motivation, but it doesn't ultimately matter for disseminating the details.[/QUOTE] So you're interested enough to go through the effort of posting the article here on Facepunch, and make a follow up excuse for omitting key details in the OP that otherwise would be there, yet you seem to keep avoiding expressing your thoughts and opinions on the matter. I don't care about your reasons for not posting something in the OP, but I am genuinely curious about where you stand on this.

[QUOTE=Tudd;53026647]Or it is just simply I can't include the full article and there was some parts I had to take out. Like that part which is nice to know motivation, but it doesn't ultimately matter for disseminating the details.[/QUOTE] Seems pretty important to understand the kid's motivations.

Good on him. He looks happy. We need more people like this to encourage others to feel comfortable as themselves. Confidence can be contagious.

[QUOTE=RaptorBlackz;53025532]I was thinking Drag racing for kids when i read the title, Welp[/QUOTE] A real missed opportunity for these kids