UK ‘baby drag act’ cancels shows, blaming ‘trolls’ – media

Parents flooded CabaBabaRave with angry comments after clips of lewd performances surfaced on social media

CabaBabaRave, a UK performance troupe that combines “sensory events” for babies with raunchy cabaret numbers for their moms, cancelled all of its upcoming shows on Friday in an email seen by the Daily Mail after outraged parents accused the mom-run troupe of sexually grooming children.  

Blaming “the recent trolling attack and unfair media attention,” event organizers Gemma Daubney and Liz West told ticket-holders that CabaBabaRave was taking a “small breather for [their] mental health.” Parents’ concerns were initially ignored entirely, and later dismissed as bad-faith poses by transphobes determined to keep kids away from drag queens. 

The troupe locked down its social media profiles on Wednesday after footage surfaced on social media showing scantily clad adults shaking their barely-clothed nether regions in babies’ faces at CabaBabaRave events. One image showed a topless woman clad only in pasties and a red thong hoisting a toddler into the air, while a video clip showed a man in a leather chest harness and thigh-high patent leather boots swinging from the ceiling surrounded by moms and babies.

CABABABARAVE locked down its Instagram & has removed its Facebook page from public view so that you don't see images like these from their shows.

Controversial footage emerges of British cabaret #drag show aimed at young children and their parents. https://t.co/FgGBxqVNwb pic.twitter.com/mj6ypifqVp

— Andy Ngô