Drag Queen Who Said โLove Has No Ageโ Gave โStory Timeโ Lessons to 11-Year-Olds
A British comprehensive school has come under fire for hosting a controversial drag queen who has said that โlove has no ageโ in lessons for 11-year-old children, in which he explained to the pupils the meaning of โqueer identityโ.
On Monday, the leading figure of the Drag Queen Story Hour UK organisation, 27-year-old Sab Samuel, who performs in drag under the stage name Aida H Dee, was invited to host a series of lessons for 11-year-old children at the Lewis School Pengam comprehensive school in Wales.
During the lessons, he reportedly explained to the young children how to โunderstand that queer is an identityโ, what itโs like living as a gay person, and about the late American drag queen and gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson, The Telegraph reported.
Demonstrating the confusion among the children, students reportedly asked Samuel if gay people could stop being gay, to which the drag queen replied โnoโ. Another allegedly asked: โDid you ever think about killing yourself?โ
The appearance at the school sparked controversy after the Drag Queen Story Hour UK Twitter account reportedly posted and later deleted pictures of children watching the drag queen during the class.
Drag Queen Story Hour UK, which promotes its services for schoolchildren as young as five-years-old, has come under increasing scrutiny over the past year, with protests being staged across the country by activists and concerned parents, some of whom have accused the organisation of โgroomingโ children.
Sab Samuel, who claims to be autistic, has personally been criticised for fundraising for a rapistโs funeral, as well as previous social media posts in which he reportedly said that โlove has no ageโ and another in which he shared a picture of a pubescent boy and an older man, with a cation claiming that gay clubs are โwildโ as you can โmeet both types and be told both are 23โ.
Mr Samuel has attempted to defend his performances for children, saying that they may act as a โcatalystโ for youngsters to start โliving their true selvesโ and not experience the โhorrendous mental health battleโ that he claims to have endured as a child.
Commenting on the decision to host Samuel at the historic Lewis School Pengam, Shadow Education Minister Laura Anne Jones MS said that โitโs extremely concerning that this is happening in schools in Walesโ and โhighly inappropriate for him to be in this kind of environmentโ.
โThe first question to ask is why is it necessary to have a drag queen in a school environment. There are far better and more appropriate role models out there,โ she said.
โOur children deserve far better than to have a known highly sexualised and biased individual coming in to indoctrinate them and talk about delicate subjects, such as suicide and sexuality.โ
However, while Wales is governed by the Labour Party, drag queens are still often invited to schools in neighbouring England, where Jonesโs Conservative Party is responsible for education.
Meanwhile, Cathy Larkman of the Womenโs Rights Network said: โAre we really telling young men that this is what it means to be gay? That it is fair game to represent women in this way?
โSchools, and our children, would be far better served by bringing in strong aspirational gay role models for their pupils, such as lesbian fire-fighters or gay barristers.โ
Previous pressure campaigns have successfully shut down sexualised shows for children in the United Kingdom, including the โFamily Sex Showโ, which featured nude actors and taught children as young as five-years-old about masturbation and queerness.
Breitbart London revealed last year that a Labour Party-run council had hosted a performer dressed as a rainbow monkey with a giant dildo strapped to the crotch of his costume during a โSummer Reading Challengeโ for children.
Following the backlash, the local council was forced to cut ties with the LGBT carnival troupe and issued an apology to parents.
More recently, a bondage-themed drag queen show for one and two-year-old babies and their mothers in London was forced to cancel future performances after intense public outrage earlier this month.
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