🐱 Inside the UK's first Down's syndrome drag night

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http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-07/drag-syndrome-inside-the-uks-first-downs-syndrome-drag-night/

The UK's first drag event featuring performers with Down's syndrome will pave the way for more inclusivity in the arts, organisers say.

"Drag Syndrome" welcomed five newcomers to the drag scene, one of them being Otto Baxter, 30, an award-winning actor and filmmaker.

The Shakespearean actor is no stranger to the stage, but believes the act has helped improve his confidence and self-esteem.

"I've really enjoyed being a drag - I definitely got more confident and I'm more comfortable."

He added: "Being a drag is actually dazzling, darlings."

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Daniel Vais, the event's creative director, believes the project has challenged stereotypes and allowed many people with Down's syndrome to express themselves through a new style of performance.

While London's drag scene has warmly welcomed the event, they are aware they may face criticism.

"I think some people will find it uncomfortable because they feel uncomfortable with a different sex wearing the opposite sex's outfit in general, so it's not because they are Down's syndrome," he told ITV News.

"But you saw the artists are really up for it and this is part of their artistic practice, so this is what we focus on - on ourselves, not the outside."

About 750 babies with Down's syndrome are born in the UK each year and it is a condition that affects people of all ages and ethnicities.

According to the Down's syndrome Association, there are approximately 40,000 peoplewith Down's syndrome living in the UK.

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Otto's mother Lucy revealed her pride at seeing her son - along with his three brothers - channeling their creativity through drag.

"The reason that I adopted four people with Down's syndrome was because I used to go to an old Victorian hospital where people with Down's syndrome were just shut away," she said.

"I recognised that they were very, very talented and very interesting people who we had just shunned - so actually seeing them doing this is just what I dreamed of back then."

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Daniel now plans to take Drag Syndrome to a global audience, with numerous clubs across the world making offers to host the night.

"I think it's new for contemporary culture to include people with learning disabilities in avant-garde culture or in high culture - or in high fashion. It's quite new to everyone, but from what I see - it works really well, really, really well actually."
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“I have been called a bigot, an ableist, a homophobe and a transphobe,” Mr. Meijer said in an interview on Wednesday. “I fundamentally don’t understand how someone can take my very good faith concern about the potential for exploitation and spin that into discriminating against people with a disability.”
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What kind of intolerant society are we living in where I can't take my circus full of downies and rape victims transexual children to any venue I want?
 
Surely this is a clever marketing tie-in with the new Joker movie to generate more ｓｏｃｉｅｔｙ memes.
 
I agree with the wannabe politician on this one. It seemed more like they're exploiting the mentally vulnerable than anything else, when I first saw this. Honestly though, what's wrong with the ACLU these days? It seems their goals are less focused on helping people protect their civil liberties, and more focused on stuff like suing high school faculty for refusing to refer to a self-proclaimed "Satanic priest" teenage edgelord as "Reverend." I don't remember details of the case, but really, I'd be surprised if the kid was not laughed out of the room.

Same for this nonsense. Whoever filed suit should not have his case heard. If a website can ban me for saying certain things, then a venue can choose not to host people in meat space.

I'm sure they can find another venue, this is just an excuse to call someone not of your party a meanie poopy head or whatever.
 
SmileyTimeDayCare said:
Soon:

ACLU files complaint against man for not taking the dick.
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Indeed, trans women are real women, and you are a bigot for not wanting to have sex with them. Also it's not rape because women can't rape, according to the usual suspects.

Seriously if that's what you're into, you do you. But this shit is seriously getting out of hand.
 
So people with actual disabilities are being exploited now.

How low can you go, LGBT movement?

EDIT: And you know what? Fuck the left. They are using Down Syndrome people just as an excuse to further call this Republican running for congress a "bigot." They do NOT care about the "performers" in the slightest. Obviously.

Since when does the left give any fucks about Down Syndrome people, by the way? Doesn't the left say that terminating a pregnancy is morally justified if the baby has Down Syndrome all of the goddamn time?

Fuck. The. Left.
 
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Duke Nukem said:
Honestly though, what's wrong with the ACLU these days? It seems their goals are less focused on helping people protect their civil liberties, and more focused on stuff like suing high school faculty for refusing to refer to a self-proclaimed "Satanic priest" teenage edgelord as "Reverend." I don't remember details of the case, but really, I'd be surprised if the kid was not laughed out of the room.
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It's not "these days". The ACLU's always been like this, for every actually important and notable case they take, there's like a dozen examples of them suing towns because they put up a natativity display at christmas but didn't put up an inflatable santa as well, or something like that.
 
Oh fuck off. This is even more obnoxious than desmond the amazing. Fucking fags just cannot stop being autistic.
 
I think it's time to revive the Aktion Tiergartenstraße 4 program
 
London is what happens when your government doesn't fear you, actively hates you, and took away your guns years ago.
 
Duke Nukem said:
Indeed, trans women are real women, and you are a bigot for not wanting to have sex with them. Also it's not rape because women can't rape, according to the usual suspects.

Seriously if that's what you're into, you do you. But this shit is seriously getting out of hand.
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I don't care if these troons wanna get downs but complaining because someone doesn't want to host them?

Also isn't the left, of which the ACLU is a part, a big proponent of abortions to prevent those afflicted with this deformity from being born?
 
NB: the ACLU was founded as the legal defense arm of the CPUSA, and nothing has changed from then to now except some superficial rebranding. They were never on the side of civil rights; they've always been on the side of the right people having civil rights, Bob Chipman-style.
 
It’s actually rather brilliant to use people with disabilities as your spokesperson.

Reason? You can twist any criticism as a literal hate crime.

Plus, probably 99% of private platforms have strictly enforced and loosely worded codes of conduct against making fun of tards.

The 1% remainder being kiwi farms, where it is a requirement.
 
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