Meet the 10-year-old drag kid shaping the future of drag youth

Mashable ^ | May 1, 2018 | Alex Humphreys

[EdnaMode]

10-year-old drag superstar 'Desmond Is Amazing' is in fact, amazing. The New York City drag kid is inspiring others left and right with his positive attitude to 'be yourself always no matter what anyone says'. At only 10 years old, Desmond has immersed himself with a handful of LGBTQ youth advocacy projects and is making one thing clear: Desmond Is Amazing is the future and we're here for it.

[hanamizu]

What is going on in his family, his background, that he even knows what a drag queen is???

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A young woman I taught with had a ‘Cinderella’ dress that she’d wear to kids’ parties. Anyway she wore it at school and a kindergarten kid asked “Who’s the stripper?”

[Trillian]

Someone groomed and sexually abused this poor child.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Is it me or does he look like the alien pharaoh on stargate bust his ass and his parents asses as well this is a result of parents being your FRIEND instead of your parent !

[bgill]

Aside from the obvious brainwashing, there’s something wrong with him. Malnurished to the point of brain damage? Something.

[bgill]

Look at those dead eyes with dark circles. There’s a lot of something bad, aside from the brainwashing, going on with him.

[bgill]

Because at 5, he drove himself down to the Fredericks of Hollywood and charged his hooker heels on his credit card. Oh, wait, a 5 year old needs a parent for this.

[unread]

"Poor kid has been abused and mind raped. His parents/guardians need to be executed and he needs to be put in therapy."

I absolutely agree with all of that.... It a real crime what they've done to this kid..

[bgill]

Past puberty, he’s considered unwelcomed competition.

[so_real]

Odds are the child will not last long into adolescence (drug abuse, disease, depression, domestic violence, etc). The odds are even greater that the abusers of this poor child will wish they had never been born when they meet their Maker.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Bacha Bazi.

And you thought the Taliban were bad.

[COBOL2Java]

So horrific. He’ll be dead before he’s 22.

He'll be a drag king at 21, too...

[kaehurowing]

If you try to say the kid is screwed up, California will put you in jail.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Seriously. somebody needs to intervene before he's dead.

[niteowl77]

I honestly thought some kid was taking up quarter-mile auto racing when I read the headline, but I realized my mistake real fast... unfortunately, not fast enough.

Sick, creepy s**t. There is no explaining this away.

[DaveA37]

“Let me guess, no dad?”.........

Perhaps the “dad” is also a “dragster”. They do exist.

[Zack Attack]

Makes me wonder if going to the “drag strip” on a Friday night has the same meaning it did when I was young.

[Panhandle.deporable]

New York city. In most of America the parents would have been investigated for child abuse. Even Lars Larson was talking on his show tonight about America’s cold civil war and the fact it could get ugly. We live in scary times

[Oscar in Batangas]

20 years or so ago, the 10-year old child celebrity in our subdivision was a drag RACING up and coming superstar.

My oh my, do I ever miss the ‘good old days’

[boatbums]

He doesn’t look like a happy kid.

[EdnaMode]

Yeah they probably would.