The 11-year-old doing drag
11-year-old Desmond is a "drag kid" who wants to help other children express themselves.
11-year-old Desmond describes himself as a "drag kid", with celebrity fans including Madonna and RuPaul.
The LGBTQ advocate is known as "Desmond is Amazing". He told 成人快手 Minute he's "helping people express themselves".
His mother Wendy said he's been dressing up from a young age and she wants to encourage him.
She said: "We get messages from other parents who say our kids are just like Desmond and it's so inspiring."
She defended giving her son such a public presence, saying he enjoys being on social media channels and being able to interact with his fans. She said she takes extra care to protect her son from any negative comments posted online: "I think it would concern anybody putting their child out there publicly, but it's a matter of monitoring comments and reporting, deleting and blocking people so Desmond doesn't see them."
We asked Desmond's mother about criticisms she's received from people who think drag is unsuitable for children. She told us "as a parent, if your child wants to do drag, that's fine" and said children like Desmond are "not doing adult drag... they're doing a more kid appropriate version of drag".
Responding to concerns about Desmond doing a performance at a nightclub, his mother posted on social media that his performance was 鈥渁ge appropriate鈥, carefully supervised and 鈥渋n accordance with the Dept. for Labor鈥檚 regulations for child performers鈥.
We updated this video on 25 February 2019 to add more context.
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