Eugene Gologursky / Getty Images for Phluid Project Desmond Is Amazing at the Phluid Project Grand Opening on Main New York City. With his nearly 100,000 Instagram followers, his motto of “Be yourself, always,” has inspired many other children to embrace who they are and defy real-life and online bullies. Perhaps the most famous drag kid is 10-year-old Desmond Is Amazing, whose real name is Desmond Napoles. He’s not trans, he likes being a boy, but he has this character he dresses up as that just so happens to be a girl.” “BE YOURSELF, ALWAYS” “They think he wants to be a girl or is trans, so that’s a constant conversation he has to have. “Obviously there are some kids in his class that don’t fully understand what it means to be a drag kid,” she said. “Now, there are already a lot of drag kids, but there deserves to be way many more in the world.” “Drag was popular before drag kids, but with anything, anytime youth get involved with something, there's a lot more room for it to grow,” Golden confidently explained. and has amassed a sizable following on Instagram. Since Golden’s drag debut in Montreal, he has performed 12 times in Canada and the U.S. While there are no solid figures on how many kids participate in drag, Barbato and Bailey said the increasing popularity of drag with youth is less about “drag reaching children” and more about the art form “providing a natural environment for kids to explore who they are.” “HE HAS BEEN DRESSING UP FOREVER” “Children naturally love color, and joy, and fantasy but so often they are taught to ignore their natural curiosity and provided with rules and restrictions that crush their imagination,” Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, the producers of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” told NBC News in a joint statement. Desmond Is Amazing, 10, is second from left in the front row. RuPaul, center, during the ceremonial ribbon cutting at RuPaul's DragCon NYC 2018 at Javits Center on Sept. Nothing is more evident of this shift to the mainstream than the phenomenon of drag kids: children, typically boys, who dress up in over-the-top outfits and perform in drag.
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