{"id":1418966,"date":"2022-04-04T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418966"},"modified":"2022-04-04T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:59:40","slug":"seattle-museum-hosting-sex-themed-drag-camp-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-museum-hosting-sex-themed-drag-camp-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Museum Hosting Sex-Themed &#039;Drag&#039; Camp for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseattle-museum-hosting-sex-themed-drag-camp-for-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Seattle museum is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10683793\/Seattle-museum-hosts-400-summer-drag-camp-kids-young-12-teaches-makeup-techniques.html\">hosting<\/a>\u00a0a summer camp led by a cross-sex \u201cdrag artist\u201d to train children aged 12 through 18 how to \u201ccreate your own personas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLed by local drag artist Joshua Hancock, \u2018Summer Camp: the Art of Drag\u2019 has run for the past two summers at the West Coast city\u2019s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP),\u201d the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The MoPOP\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/mopop.org\/Camps\">detailed<\/a> the event, scheduled for August 8 through August 12 of this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCalling all current and future kings and queens! Explore self-expression in MoPOP\u2019s week-long, drag-tastic summer camp!\u201d the site read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Led by Seattle performer Joshua Hancock, you\u2019ll investigate drag history and work together with local artists to create your own personas. You\u2019ll choose your name, explore hair and makeup techniques, and develop your character\u2019s stage presence. At the end of the week, celebrate your new drag personas with a private showcase!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a social media post from July 2021, the museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MoPOPSeattle\/posts\/4459572097397347\">advertised<\/a> the camp and shared photos of the artists involved, one wearing green high heels and another with pink and white hair:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MoPOPSeattle\/posts\/4459572097397347\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/238664452821487\/posts\/4459572097397347\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Our Drag-tastic Summer Camp: The Art of Drag gets going next week! \ud83d\ude2eCurrent and future kings and queens grades 6-12\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/238664452821487\">Museum of Pop Culture<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/238664452821487\/posts\/4459572097397347\/\">Thursday, July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hancock has years of experience\u00a0in theater, burlesque, and drag, the museum\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mopop.org\/exhibitions-plus-events\/events\/rise-up-events\/\">stated<\/a>, adding he \u201cbelieves\u202f drag is for everyone, it is more than one thing, and can be used to heal, bring joy, sadness,\u202f and love to people.\u202f\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/28\/bbc-celebrates-15-year-old-drag-queen\/\">highlighted<\/a> a 15-year-old who began developing his drag act when he was 13, Breitbart News reported March 28:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Titled \u201cCherry West: From schoolboy Sam to drag teen,\u201d the Wednesday essay begins by <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-60819998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">describing<\/a> teenage drag queen Sam Carlin, who goes by the alter ego \u201cCherry West,\u201d as an aspiring schoolboy \u201cdreaming of a flamboyant future\u201d ever since his first encounter with the \u201cdrag scene\u201d at the tender age of 10, where he \u201cconnected\u201d with performing as a woman on stage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once the young man voiced interest regarding drag to his parents, the couple \u201cencouraged\u201d him to practice, and his sister taught him how to put on makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Seattle museum is hosting\u00a0a summer camp led by a cross-sex \u201cdrag artist\u201d to train children aged 12 through 18 how to \u201ccreate your own personas.\u201d \u201cLed by local drag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}