YouTube star Fleccas sent a correspondent to the Dallas gay bar that held an obscene drag event for children Saturday, and the results were disturbing.
The “Drag the Kids to Pride” show at the Mr. Misster bar was billed as a “family-friendly” version of the bar’s regular “Champagne Drag Brunch.” During Saturday’s event, drag performers pranced with children as young as seven in front of a neon sign that read, “It’s not gonna lick itself.” Afterward, the performers pronounced the show a success.
“I think it was amazing,” a performer named Arielle Diamond told “Fleccas Talks” correspondent Aldo Buttazzoni. “I never get to perform in front of children. It was very emotional. I loved it. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever done.”
Performer Noelle Sinclair said, “I hope so,” when asked if exposing little kids to drag would make them more likely to take up the fetish.
“I don’t think there is any kind of issue with exposing children to this because, especially if your child is in the community or you may think they are,” Sinclair said. “I think that drag is educational.”
Several attendees wearing T-shirts supporting Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said afterward it is good to take small children to watch drag shows.
“It’s not grooming,” one woman told Buttazzoni. “You will be what you are. We’re not going to turn you into something else because you come and see this event.”
Austen Fletcher, the man behind the popular YouTube channel “Fleccas Talks,” said it is stunning that adults think it is ok to bring children to a gay bar to watch drag shows.
“This was a drag queen show for children at an adult bar,” Fletcher said.
Outside the club, protesters gathered to complain that the event was grooming children.
“I live in this community,” a woman who gave her name as Dasy and was holding a sign that said, “Stop grooming children,” told WFAA. “I have for several years. I don’t believe that I should be seeing signs advertising for children to be dancing on stage with men in thongs and in inappropriate clothing and makeup.”
A group called “Protect Texas Kids” protested outside and said it had hoped to scuttle the event as soon as it heard about it.
“The mission was to raise awareness that an event like this, a drag show for children, was happening right in Dallas,” the organization said in a statement. “We also hoped that if we raised awareness, the event might be canceled or modified so that children couldn’t be present.”
Online, critics were even more outspoken.
“7 year olds tipping drag queens and hanging out in a 21 and up bar & the Dallas Police dept is letting it happen … why not enforce the law?” tweeted Alex Stein.
“What happened in Dallas today with the children at the drag show was pure evil,” tweeted Election Wizard.
After the event, the bar released a statement claiming it was raising money for a local LGBTQ+ youth organization and accused protesters of being “transphobic.”
“We are more than happy to open our doors to celebrate Pride in a family friendly, safe environment, separate from our normal operations of 2 p.m. – 2 a.m. on Saturdays because we believe that everyone should have a space to be able to celebrate who they are,” the statement read. “Mr. Misster is a place where everyone is welcome to feel accepted, safe and included.”
Fletcher, who has nearly 600,000 YouTube subscribers, built up his following by going to protests and asking leftists relatively straightforward questions and getting answers ranging from hilarious to terrifying. He now has a weekly podcast, which drops on Fridays.
In 2020, Fletcher made more serious news when he caught up with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to ask him about the riots that were going on at the time in Portland, Oregon. Nadler declared that the black-clad anarchists were “a myth.”