Drag Kings and Queens Perform for Middle Schoolers at Arlington's Pride Prom

Here's what to know so your kids won't get dragged into something they - and you - will regret.

Earlier this week a couple of concerned MIP parents brought the following post to our attention. It seems that Robbins Library, a public library in Arlington, MA, is hosting a Pride Prom for kids in grades 6-12, complete with a drag performance. No pre-registration is required for kids to attend.

We’ve written about Arlington before, and we are well aware of just how infiltrated the community has become by progressive ideology, but this event wasn’t on our radar. The parents were concerned, and rightfully so. It doesn’t take a degree in child development to know that mixing 6th graders (who might be as young as 11 year old!) and 18 year olds in a prom setting is a terrible idea, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. But mixing middle schoolers, 18 year olds, and adult sexual performers - all brought together by a shared allegiance to an ideology where openly discussing sexuality is a feature, not a bug? Now that’s even worse! We knew we needed to learn more about this event.

What we found is that the Robbins Library Pride Prom isn’t new, but it is a problem. This childishly-advertised gathering poses real danger to impressionable kids who might be drawn to attend. And because it is growing in size and influence, parents across Massachusetts need to know about this event.

But first, here’s some history.

The Robbins Library Pride Prom was initially known as Drag Prom. The first Drag Prom was sponsored by the now-defunct Boston Area Homeschoolers’ QSA and was “hostessed” by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the highly sexual drag nuns who are known for mocking Christianity and the Catholic church. It was open to “LGBTQIA+ youth ages 12-19,” who were invited to “Come by yourself, or with a date (or several!).” The event was held at a former Methodist church in Arlington. Rob Lorino, who was the Adult Services Librarian at Robbins at the time, is also listed as a contact.

Now, this is where we are going to stop and lay the groundwork for the rest of this post, which will, as the saying goes, “name names.” We do not wish ill on any of the people named in this post, and we expressly disavow any harassment or mistreatment of these people. However, when it comes to matters of child protection, we don’t think that anyone who works with the public or interacts with kids should be exempt from scrutiny if they allow their personal fetishes or ideologies to influence children, or if they fail to create effective boundaries to prevent children from being influenced. Every piece of information in this article was left on public display by those we name, and therefore could also be accessed by minors. If any of the people mentioned in this article now disavow their involvement with this event and no longer believe that it is appropriate to mix kids and drag, we would love to hear from them. We invite them to contact us at massinformedparents@gmail.com and we will update our post to include this new information.

That said, this is a photo of Rob Lorino (the Robbins Library contact person for the 2017 Prom) taken from his FB profile and posted during his tenure at Robbins Library.

Rob was also featured in a poetry exhibition at the Robbins Library in 2018 that featured his poem “Divine Femme,” in which he endorses rage against parents and other adult authority figures who attempt to discourage boys from crossdressing.

The “hostesses” of the event, the Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, wrote a report about the first Drag Prom on their website. According to that report the Prom was attended by “Sisters Yonica and Rosetta,” who “spent time talking to the attendees,” amongst other things.

Sister Yonica was also known as “Sister Yonica Phallico,” a nod to female and male genitalia.

In 2018 the Drag Prom was back again, this time held at the Arlington Senior Center, still a collaborative effort of the Boston Area Homeschoolers’ QSA, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Robbins Library staff. This time Teen Librarian Megan Coffey, whose short tenure at Robbins appears to have only lasted one year, is listed as the contact.

Even after leaving Robbins Library, Megan and Rob worked together to spread the drag-for-teens gospel to other libraries as you can see in the synopsis below from a presentation they made at the annual Teen Summit hosted by the Massachusetts Library System that same year.

The 2018 Drag Prom was enthusiastically promoted on Robbins Library’s social media multiple times.

Per the Facebook event page above, at the 2018 Drag Prom, in addition to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, kids witnessed performances by Queen Kamden Rage and King Jayden Jamison KA St. James.

Who are Kamden Rage and Jayden Jamison KA St. James (who we will refer to as Jayden from here on out)?

Kamden Rage is a male who performs as a drag queen. Here is a photo from his public instagram taken a couple months before this event.

And here is a photo of him with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence taken a month after the Drag Prom.

Jayden is a female who performs as a drag king. Here is a photo of her from her instagram, taken shortly before the event.

And another photo of her and Kamden taken at the event itself.

And here is yet another photo from her instagram taken in the months after the 2018 Drag Prom where she is seen wearing an exposed prosthetic penis (we have censored the image but the real one can be viewed on her public instagram here).

But wait, a sympathetic reader might say. These performers weren’t dressed scantily or wearing dog masks or fake genitalia when they performed at the teen event. Why does it matter what the performers wear when they aren’t at Drag Prom, if they dress modestly when they are around the kids?

Because of social media. When vulnerable kids meet these adult sexual performers at the Prom, it’s only natural for them to want to connect with them online after. And when they do, photos like these are what they will see.

The fact that the connection between the performer and the kids can extend beyond one event is not incidental. Sometimes it’s exactly what is intended.

Leading up to the 2018 Drag Prom, the Boston Area Homeschoolers QSA and Robbins Library offered two other events, including a “Makeup and Persona” tutorial session, offered twice, also presented by Kamden and Jayden.

On her own instagram in advance of the event, Jayden said “So excited to be part of building the next generation of drag performers. This is a free workshop open to all MINORS.” (Caps hers, not ours. See below.)

She is explicit in her intention to specifically influence minor children. And while the desire that many drag performers have to influence minors is well-documented and certainly not exclusive to Jayden, parents must know that autogynephillic men in makeup and dresses are not the only drag performers they should be concerned about.

2019 brought the Drag Prom event even further under the leadership of Robbins Library, with Teen Librarian Katy Kania as the contact for the Prom and other associated events, including another drag makeup tutorial day. The event was funded in part by a grant from Boston Pride. This year Jayden would return and be accompanied by another adult sexual performer, Sham Payne.

Here is a photo from Sham Payne’s public instagram, posted shortly before the 2019 Drag Prom events where he performed for middle school-aged children.

And here is another one posted just a couple months after the event, where he is fully nude.

Kania, who according to her instagram page identified at work as “they/them” and a “chaotic queer,” seems to have brought a renewed energy and focus to the Prom and other associated LGBTQ-related events at the Robbins Library.

She documented several events on the now-inactive Robbins Library Teens instagram account, including the makeup tutorials done by Jayden and Sham Payne on minor children. (Redactions ours to try and protect the identity of these kids.)

And while they weren’t mentioned on the Robbins Library’s public advertising for this year’s Prom, we know that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were still involved in 2019. The display below is what the adults in charge of, and performing at, the Prom thought was appropriate “for kiddos.”

“This is adulting at its best,” says Jayden in her post caption after performing in drag for minor children, on public property.

Here are some additional photos from the event, taken from Sham Payne’s instagram.

The 2019 Drag Prom attracted some media attention, including this article from WBUR. Strangely, this article mentions absolutely NOTHING about the fact that there were drag queens present or participating in the event. It only has photos of some of the kids who were in attendance, alongside the empathy-enducing headine below. One has to wonder, why were the drag queens left out?

Before the 2019 Drag Prom there had been some concern in Arlington about the name of the event, “particularly among the transgender community.” Per the minutes of the February 21, 2019, Arlington LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Commission meeting, it was too late to change the name for this year, but the event in future years might be called something different.

In 2020, the Drag Prom was officially renamed “Pride Prom.” And then because of Covid, it moved onto Zoom for two years. This update is explained in the below 2022 screenshot from the Robbins Library website.

In 2022 the Prom returned, enthusiastically advertised again by Robbins Library, and again featuring the same two adult sexual performers Sham Payne and Jayden, referred to as “our Prom King and Queen.”

According to Jayden in a post on her instagram, the 2022 Prom also featured something else - a roster of exclusively gay chaperones.

“The heartwarming moment for me was when (Teen Librarian) Katy told me about overhearing the kids realizing that the chaperones were all gay,” she says in a post bearing the hashtag #babyqueers.

Before we go further, we must point out how profoundly inappropriate it is for kids attending a youth event to know the sexual desires of the adults in charge of their care. Did the kids ask the adults about their sexuality? Did the adults proactively start discussions with the kids about it? Regardless of how this knowledge was transferred, this is a perfect example of how safe and proper boundaries between children and unrelated adults can easily be breached in a setting where sexuality is the central focus.

The 2022 Prom also featured another drag performer in addition to Kamden Rage and Jayden not mentioned in the Robbins Library’s public posts. He is depicted below.

This performer is identified by a post on Teen Librarian Katy’s personal instagram as DJ Creamy Dreamy Coleslaw, who she also referred to as “Auntie Coleslaw.”

Here is a screenshot from a video posted by Creamy Dreamy Coleslaw to his instagram less than a month after this event. Keep in mind that the public received no apparent notice that he would attend the Prom.

And here is another post from just a couple months later. If the kids who were introduced to Mr. Coleslaw followed his instagram after the event, this is what they would see: a man in what appears to be a child’s dress, clutching an eggplant betwixt his buttcheeks in a reference to anal sex that would be recognized by most teens (the eggplant emoji is often used to represent a penis in texting). We have redacted it to save your eyes, but you can see the original post here.

The Robbins Library was back with a 2023 Pride Prom the next year, this year sending the conflicting message that kids have to either be 13 or in 6th grade to attend (many 6th graders are younger than 13, and some are as young as 11). There was also a Drag Performance Workshop sponsored by the Arlington Rainbow Commission. “May 17th is a half day for Arlington Public School Students, so students will be free to join this joyful event!” the post says.

Unlike in 2022, though, the Robbins Library do not appear to have disclosed any of the names of the performers in either their pre-event or post-event posts.

This change may have been due to a shift in leadership, as the new (and current) Teen Librarian Stephen Toropov started at Robbins in December of 2022. Toropov, who uses they/them pronouns, was previously at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Library where he participated on the “We Are Pride” committee.

However, thanks to the post below from Jayden’s instagram, we know that Jayden was back, and this time accompanied by two other performers: Beets Bi Blaire and Lacey Stockings (formerly known as Lancelin SVP).

The post also mentions a performer named Minimal Blending, who according to Jayden was a former teen attendee of a previous Drag Prom and was now performing themselves. (At time of publishing we do not have any additional who this young man or woman is, or the nature of their performance. If we learn more we will update this post.)

Beets Bi Blaire is a female-identifying male DJ whose instagram posts contain such things as satanic imagery and a website url that appears to provide free cross-sex hormones for men who want to appear like women.

In addition to DJing for kids, he also performs at events like “Gender*uckers: A T4T Kink Night” and “Daddy O: Underwear Party, Pride Edition.”

The other performer at the 2023 Pride Prom was Lacey Stockings, who can be seen below on this photo from her instagram. Lacey attended at Jayden’s invitation, and her story seems to be a bit different. We’ll get back to that later.

In 2024 the Pride Prom was back at the library.

This time, the library decided that not only did they intend to host the Pride Prom, they also wanted to help kids get dressed for it.

Their social posts didn’t mention drag performers this time around (just “Live performance!”), but we can reasonably conclude that Jayden was still involved thanks to the post below from her instagram, commented on by Katy the (now former) Robbins Teen Librarian.

The 2025 Pride Prom was also advertised on the Robbins Library social media, but again without any mention of a drag performance. It was simply stated there would be “live performances,” even though the rest of the post commentary went into more detail about other activities that would take place there.

And yet, thanks to the post below by Lacey Stockings, we know that drag performers were there again. Beets Bi Blaire was there again as well.

Why did the Robbins Library leave the presence of drag performers off of the public messaging about this event, two years in a row? How could parents make an informed decision about whether they want their child to attend without receiving all of the information? This is likely why the parents who brought this year’s event to our attention were so surprised to see that drag performers would be in attendance. Drag performers have consistently been at the event, but the Robbins Library hasn’t always been transparent about it.

Now the 2026 Pride Prom is happening today. This year the library collected clothes again, and they did actually mention the “live drag show” on the flier and on the Robbins Library website. The event this year is at the Arlington Town Hall, “due to the amazing turnout in previous years.” As in past years, no pre-registration (and it appears, no parental permission) is required to attend.

What they don’t mention in this post is who the drag queens are who will be in attendance, though we would be willing to bet it’s some of the faces that have been seen in previous years. If we receive conclusive information on this, we will update this post.

While some parents, like the ones who alerted us to this event, automatically (and rightly) bristle at the news of drag performers interacting with minors or a “prom” that mixes 6th graders with high school seniors, others don’t. Some are actually genuine supporters of drag performances for kids and encourage children and teens to experiment with gender and sexuality. However, many parents aren’t drag fans themselves, but they generally believe events like this are harmless, and that allowing their kids to participate is the open-minded and inclusive thing to do.

Dear reader, if you fall into that third category, it’s time to lean in.

Much has been made of the use of the term “grooming” when it comes to drag, and whether or not that is hyperbole, or is a proper use of that term. Regardless of how you define that word, the fact that drag performers often train younger people to follow them into their sexualized profession is not debatable. Sometimes their “drag sons” and “drag daughters” are legal adults, but sometimes they escort children and teens into this raunchy, debauched world.

We’ve seen evidence of it already in this post, and here’s more.

Lacey Stockings, the drag performer who has made an appearance at the last couple of Pride Proms, made the post below in 2019 about when she first met Jayden. At the time, she was underage. Jayden offered to give her the type of help that “it’s difficult to get” as a minor.

Jayden also posted about meeting Lacey on her own instagram.

Four years later, Jayden made another post about Lacey, who at the time was going by the drag name Lancelin SVP. Jayden used Lacey’s real first name in the post, which we have redacted to protect her privacy. In her post, Jayden outlines how she met Lacey as a teen and encouraged her forays into drag culture.

“I’d go on to follow (Lacey’s) own drag journey & involv(ing) them in whatever kid friendly events I had to keep this baby gay involved… As a gay elder, I feel a responsibility to keep our baby gays included, involved & engaged in our communities bc 1 day they will inherit it,” Jayden said. She also mentioned how ecstatic she was when she saw Lacey resurface with a new drag photo and top surgery scars.

Yes, Lacey who performs as a drag queen, is a female.

This is the photo that Jayden saw.

A photo of a beautiful young woman with her healthy breasts removed is not something anyone who actually cares about women should celebrate. A horrible thing has been done to her, and we will be praying that she leaves this destructive lifestyle before it takes any more from her. The adults around Lacey failed her, and now as a young adult, she is performing for minors herself. Lacey is at the Prom because Jayden invited her, and now sadly she may (intentionally or unintentionally) influence other young girls to follow suit.

While according to these posts Jayden was not personally responsible for introducing Lacey to drag, she admits she felt it was her duty to encourage her along the way. Lacey is far from her only student. Jayden instructs many young women on how to become drag kings through a program called Kindgom. She refers to the acolytes as “drag sons” and they call her “dad.” Below is only one of many, many posts that demonstrate this program. In this post, this crop of “drag sons” got tattoos to show their allegiance to the program. According to Jayden’s instagram posts it appears that dozens of young women, perhaps more, have participated in Kingdom classes. It is unknown how many of these young women may be minors, or how many of them are now 18+ but first met Jayden and became introduced to her work at Arlington’s Drag/Pride Prom.

Here is another post where Jayden references one of her “drag kids” and how studying drag with her was part of their “gender journey.”

How many young attendees of this Prom have been influenced to become a drag king or drag queen, or to adopt some other atypical expression of gender or sexuality since this event was founded? How many kids attended because they were lonely or artsy or awkward or on the spectrum and ended up leaving with a connection to a grown man who sexualizes plastic vegetables, or a woman who seems to think it is her duty to turn girls and young women into the next generation of women who wear manface and fake penises and perform as sexualized “drag kings?”

We don’t know the number, but based on our investigation, it’s almost certainly not zero.

We suspect today’s Pride Prom in Arlington will likely be much of the same. And while Arlington is well-known for its dogged support of all things LGBTQ, we know that even many parents who are gay-identifying themselves, or are politically progressive, would not want their child introduced to these sorts of things if they really knew what was going on. The drag scene is pornographic, and rife with drug use, disease, and abuse. While drag itself is not new, our society’s amnesia about the dangers of it seems to be. It’s time to pick our common sense up off the floor, dust it off, and put it back to use. Introducing kids to drag is wrong, and it’s wrong not to say so.

We know Arlington is wokesville, but even many Arlington parents probably aren’t actually okay with kids being exposed to adult sexual performers like this. Arlington moms and dads, it’s time to marshal your parental instincts and stand up against this. This exposure isn’t just happening on your city property, and likely on your taxpayer dime, it’s happening to your kids.

And while this dangerous event is Arlington’s fault since that’s where it started and continues to be held, because this prom is open to kids outside of Arlington, this is a statewide issue.

Know better, do better, Arlington. And moms and dads across the state, for the love of all that is good and sacred, please do not send your kids to the Arlington Pride Prom, or any other event like it. You never know what your kid might get dragged into if you do.

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But before we go, here are two other things worth mentioning that came up during the course of our investigation but aren’t directly connected to the Arlington Drag/Pride Prom. While the Prom is not a public school event, we found some things that do have to do with Massachusetts public schools that parents need to know about.

First, OUT Metrowest popped up again. We have written extensively about OUT Metrowest before because they have shown up as a recommended resource in some Massachusetts public schools. OUT Metrowest is a nonprofit that provides free programs that, according to their website, “connect LGBTQ+ youth with supportive peers and LGBTQ+ adult role models.” Apparently Jayden (whose real name is Quyen Tran) is one of those “adult role models.” This is a concrete example of how public schools can push kids toward outside organizations that will introduce them to unrelated adults who may affirm and facilitate gender confusion and other sexualized lifestyles.

Second, Jayden also does speaking engagements in local high school health classes through an organization called SpeakOUT Boston.

“We are THE GAY AGENDA the conservatives are so worried about,” she says in her post below. “Throwback to last week’s speaking engagements at a local high school health class.”

We appreciate Jayden bringing SpeakOUT Boston, and how it operates in public schools, to our attention. We have warned parents before about the danger of schools using outside presenters as part of their health or sex ed class, and this is a perfect example of why we are right to sound the alarm. The SpeakOUT Boston website lists testimonials from public school teachers in Newton, Lexington and Wellesley, though they have likely sent speakers to other districts as well.

Parents, if your school is offering presenters from SpeakOUT Boston or promoting resources from OUT Metrowest, let us know in the comments.

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