Pub hosting ‘beyond creepy’ event: ‘Vanellope is here to show you what a 11-year-old drag queen can do’
October 19, 2022 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Old Nick’s Pub in Eugene, Oregon is being accused of child abuse in a “beyond creepy” event where an 11-year-old girl named Vanellope Craving will dress up as a drag queen to perform at a brunch show.
The bar describes itself as Eugene’s premiere Victorian Gothic British Pub. “Old Nick” is a nickname for the devil.
The show is set to take place on October 23 and it is not the first time the bar has had the young drag queen perform there. The child’s real name is Hannahlyn Engelson.
Sunshine Ray MacPherson, the child’s mother, whose real name is Jennifer Hibbs, is also a drag queen performer.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1582488220331565057The bar has seriously promoted the event online. On its Facebook page, Old Nick’s Pub shows the child caked in makeup, posing provocatively.
People were enraged at the exploitation of the child. The young drag queen’s mother was blasted for making debauched spectacles central to the child’s life. A number of people are calling it child abuse and want to know why Child Protective Services isn’t involved.
The bar is defending having the child performer publically strut her stuff. They are twisting the narrative and accusing those who condemn the drag show of “sexualizing a child in makeup.”
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