After 20 years of living by lipstick and stiletto, former drag queen Kevin Whitt picked up a Bible. Since then, he’s been on a mission to spread hope to others trapped in the gay sex industry and warn parents about “family-friendly” drag shows.
Drag shows are never appropriate for children because they are designed to destroy family structures, said Whitt, who became a Christian eight years ago.
Whitt describes drag shows as equivalent to a strip club.
“Imagine going to a strip club, but not stripping—almost like a burlesque show,” he said.
Whitt was a drag performer for 20 years. When he left, children were rarely seen at drag shows, he said.
Now, drag events that target children are rapidly spreading across America.
“The short version is, it’s indoctrination and grooming,” he said. “And it’s all an agenda and a plan. The plan is to tear down the nuclear family.”
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While drag shows usually have an element of obscenity, Whitt said today’s shows are worse than in the past.
“For me, it was more about being glamorous and elegant and classy—and just a little bit trashy. But nowadays, it’s more about being a real trash heap,” he said.
“Drag is not child- or family-friendly,” he said. “It’s very adult entertainment. It’s definitely not for children.”
At drag shows, customers stuffed money into his underwear, Whitt said. Some audience members made him take money out of their mouths.
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It’s public outcry that’s forcing planned drag events for children to find other venues, Whitt said.
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Now, LGBT activists have moved child drag queen events to gay nightclubs during the day, he said. At one, drag queens performed for children in front of a nightclub sign reading, “It’s Not Gonna Lick Itself.”
“I think the majority of parents have no idea,” said Whitt. “They think they’re taking their kids to something fun. And they think that they’re teaching them inclusivity and diversity.”
Americans concerned about drag shows reaching children shouldn’t blame the drag queens, said Whitt. They’re just performers, not management.
“If you ask them to go perform in a back alley for a bunch of crackheads and you pay them $300 to do it, they will go,” he said. “This is what they do for work.”
The blame should fall on the institutions that invite drag queens to perform for children, he said.
“Instead of attacking the drag queen, we need to attack the people that own the establishment that’s having the drag shows, or the organizer of the drag show,” he said.
