Posted on 09/26/2018 7:50:30 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Video: "Extra Chromosome Drag Night"
A drag troupe comprised of performers with Down syndrome is an LGBT activist's latest foray into promoting so-called “inclusion.”
Several “Drag Syndrome” events took place at a handful of underground events this summer around East London, promising “drag mayhem” during “extra Chromosome Drag night with our royal Queens and Kings.” The enterprise is a project of the London-based Culture Device, which receives public funding from the Arts Council of England.
Like any other drag show, the performances feature song and dance by men wearing women’s dresses, garish makeup, wigs, and in some cases fake breasts. But Drag Syndrome is the first of its kind in the UK, with organizers and performers claiming the event somehow promotes acceptance of people with disabilities.
"I think it's new for contemporary culture to include people with learning disabilities in avant-garde culture or in high culture - or in high fashion,” LGBT activist and event organizer Daniel Vais told ITV. “It's quite new to everyone, but from what I see - it works really well, really, really well actually." In 2013, Vais promoted ‘To Russian LGBT – with love,’ a theater event to help "raise concern over the treatment of the LGBT community by the Russian government."
“I have a few family members that have Down’s syndrome,” drag queen “Cara Melle” added. “And so I’m very happy and also it makes me excited to see people embracing people with Down’s syndrome, people with any sort of, people who have never performed before. It’s very important to me.”
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, characteristic facial traits, and often intellectual disability.
"Down syndrome also affects a person’s ability to think, reason, understand, and be social. The effects range from mild to moderate," states webmd.com about the condition.
Approximately 750 babies with Down syndrome are born annually in the UK, which currently has a Down syndrome population of about 40,000 people, according to the UK Down’s Syndrome Association.
Despite the organizers’ rhetoric about acceptance, however – which includes the adoptive mother of four performers lamenting the “shunning” of Down children – most such children in the UK continue to be aborted before they can be “embraced” by any group.
90% of UK babies to receive a Down syndrome diagnosis are aborted. Similar numbers have been reported in countries such as Norway, Iceland, and Spain, despite research showing that 99% of people with Down syndrome consider themselves “happy,” and only 4% of parents of Down children express regret at having their child.
Drag Syndrome appears to be part of a broader trend that’s more preoccupied with promoting “gender fluidity” to various groups than genuinely helping those groups. “Drag Queen Story Time” events in the UK and United States feature cross-dressers reading and performing to small children in public libraries and nursery schools, while the pro-LGBT media has heavily promoted stories about prepubescent drag performers such as Nemis Quinn Mélançon Golden, also known as “Lactatia,” and Desmond “Desmond is Amazing” Napoles.
Meanwhile, Vais says he plans to take Drag Syndrome global. “We’ve got a few clubs from around the world contacting us wanting to host it,” he said. “So hopefully we’ll tour it, we’ll do a regular slot in London and we’ll tour it around the country.”
Sometimes I wonder what’s taking God so long.
Don’t look back, you’ll turn to ash.
I think God is on his way to doing something about this.
Ruth Graham (Billy’s wife) once said: “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
I guess that applies to England too.
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower ...
This...this is a whole new level of sick.
Man, how f’d up can people be?
Are they (people with Trisomy 21) capable of ensuring that safe sex practices are followed?
In the drag community, what other hazards might they be likely to encounter?
We need to shove these, ahem, ‘people’, back into the closets like good cockroaches, and soon.
I think England is already being judged, by all the “refugees” it allowed in.
What does London’s Moslem mayor have to say about this?
The world looks just like many are in a Romans 1:18-32 condition, so that homosexuals are running amuck and many defend them so virulently may indeed be the Lord doing something.
He’s getting them ready to do as they will, not as He wills, that they might get the “reward” for refusing to retain knowledge about Him, in particular (I’m convinced) that He is “Holy, Holy, Holy” and what that implies.
It ends very, very badly for the rebels.
Our concern is that we cling to Him. When Christ said something startling and many stopped following Him, He turned to those who remained and asked if they would leave too. Their answer (from memory): “Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” should be ours.
Do not follow the world but cling to the Lord. Even if no one else seems to be going with you remember what the Lord said to Elijah, that He had several thousand who had not bowed to the Baals or kissed them. There is always a remnant.
The poofters and their champions want to be our proverbial Baals ... but it is they who need to repent, not Christians.
I am not meant for this era of America besides the Trump part of it. There is so much decline that it gets me extremely livid and hopelessly sad at the same time.
It’s abuse, plain and simple. They are turning these people into sideshow attractions. What next —drag displays for people with horrible physical deformaties, or Siamese twins?
Evil.
None!
At some point these seriously disabled individuals should be checked for rectal syphilis!
You mean beside "terrorism is part of the price you pay for living in a major city"?
I often wonder that.
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