KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Ten-year-old Dinah clutched her mother’s hand in the darkened Tennessee Theatre as they waited for the drag show to begin.
“For us, this is just an art form,” Dinah’s mother told a reporter for The Epoch Times, before performers took the stage at A Drag Queen Christmas.
“It’s culture. It’s something that we don’t mind exposing her to because it’s life, and she’s going to experience it, either way.”
Dinah, not identified by her real name, claimed, at first, she was 18. Then, she admitted she’d not yet reached 11.
Dinah, a 10-year-old, holds her mother’s hand in the darkened theater before watching A Drag Queen Christmas in Knoxville, Tenn. on Dec. 22, 2022 (Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times)
At least one other child was in the packed theater on Dec. 22. The traveling show will make 36 stops around the country during the holiday season. Tickets range between about $35 and $150….