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BY COLIN MIXSON
The family of an 11-year-old
Brooklyn boy known internationally
as one of the city’s
most talked about drag queens
continues to receive death
threats, as well as investigatory
visits from city social
workers, weeks after writers
for conservative and pro-life
websites ignited a fi restorm
over his recent performance at
a Williamsburg bar.
Mom Wendy Napoles said
haters of her son Desmond
Napoles — who performs in
drag as Desmond is Amazing
— fi led more than 150 complaints
with the city’s Administration
for Children’s Services
after his December show
at Meserole Street gay bar 3
Dollar Bill, which went viral
when critics attacked the performance
as exploitative “pedophilia”
because Desmond
wore a crop top while accepting
cash from the crowd.
Each of those complaints
necessitates its own 60-day
investigation, resulting in almost
daily home visits from
agency inspectors — some of
whom arrive as late as 3 am,
according to Napoles.
“We’re prisoners in our
own home,” she said. “They’ll
come anytime.”
The mom, who said she
vets all of the venues where
Desmond performs to ensure
they’re safe and appropriate,
blasted her son’s critics as homophobes,
claiming it’s perfectly
legal for a child to perform
at a bar if accompanied
by an adult.
“No clothes came off my
child,” she said. “I don’t understand
how people can believe
he was stripping, there was a
lot of homophobia there.”
A Child Services spokeswoman
would not comment on
any individual case, but said
the agency’s policy is to consolidate
duplicate complaints,
all of which are screened by a
state register that determines
whether they merit an investigation
by local authorities.
But Desmond — whose
mom said is depositing all the
money he makes performing
into a trust fund he can’t access
until he is 18 — isn’t letting
the uproar over his passion
get him down.
The fi fth grader, who rose
to fame after being caught on
camera dancing in a rainbow
tutu at the city’s 2015 LGBTQ
Pride Parade, said the joy he
fi nds dressing up in wigs,
skirts, and lip stick is only
bested by the thrills his performances
bring to his fans.
“I like performing so
much,” he said. “I like to entertain
people, it makes them
happy.”
Ever since he could walk,
the Brooklyn-born-and-bred
youngster showed a performative
streak, and his interest in
drag dates back to when he habitually
stole clothes from Napoles
— who is now her son’s
assistant — to create genderbending
characters he’d act
out at home, she said.
But after a 6-year-old Desmond
went trick-or-treating
dressed as Elsa from the movie
“Frozen,” mom’s old duds just
didn’t cut it anymore, and he
started asking for his own
feminine wardrobe, according
to Napoles.
His show must go on
Young Bklyn drag queen forges ahead despite
outrage and threats after recent performance
AMAZING: Young Brooklynite Desmond Napoles — seen here outside
Grand Army Plaza in full drag as Desmond is Amazing — is not letting a
bout of outrage from some conservative and other critics over a recent
performance stop his passion for performing, because he says his shows
bring many others sheer joy. Photo by Caroline Ourso
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