Desmond is amazing

Desmond Napoles, known by his on-stage name, Desmond is Amazing, is a young, trailblazing Drag Teen from New York who began dressing up in drag when he was just five years old.

Desmond was inspired by the Drag Queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race and began fashioning household items into dresses and wigs with his mum. He came to wider attention in 2015 when videos of him voguing through the New York City Pride March went viral. In February 2018, he made his fashion runway debut and was in the accompanying campaign for the event. He has since done high fashion shoots, runways at New York Fashion Week, and campaigns for numerous brands, and was named a spokesperson for Converse and NYC Pride. He has even featured in Drag Race Winner Jinx Monsoon’s music video for The Bacon Snake.

He has continuously spoken out on LGBTQ+ issues and says that people should be who they want to be and do whatever makes them feel good, which I’m sure we can all agree on. In 2017 he received the Marsha P. Johnson ‘Don’t be Outraged, Be Outrageous’ Award, and in 2018 he was named to the Dazed 100 most influential people shaping youth culture and named to the Out100 as one of “the most influential LGBTQIA figures”. Desmond is paving the way for generations to come and is one to watch over the coming years.