Conservative Christians target Brazilian-made Netflix cartoon, ‘Super Drags’

After Netflix released the teaser trailer for “Super Drags,” an animated series about three superhero drag queens, The Christian Film and Television Commission demanded the streaming platform cancel its plans for the show.

The group started a Citizen Go petition last month that reads, in part, “Do we really want our children to sit down to watch a fun new superhero cartoon series and instead have them lose their innocence to sexual wickedness?”

Netflix had not responded to the petition as of July 6, according to LGBTQ Nation.

The show follows the adventures of three department store clerks who transform into Lemon Chiffon, Cran’s Sapphire, and Crimson Scarlet “ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil villains.”

The Brazilian arm of Netflix is creating the new animated series.

“We are very happy to begin this partnership with Netflix,” Marcelo Pereira, executive producer of “Super Drags,” told Barzil’s CosmoNerd. “Working with animation in Brazil is very difficult. It was almost three years of eating only instant noodles and hope.”

The petition has reached more than half of it’s 50,000 goal as of July 9.

Although Netflix has released few details, including a release date, about the show, the YouTube trailer description did offer these hints:

“During the day, they work in a department store and deal with their uptight bitchy boss,” the description said. “By night, they tighten up their corsets and transform into the baddest Super Drags in town, ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil villains.”

“Thanks to Netflix we can take Brazilian animation and LGBTQ representation to the 190 countries that have access to the service,” Pereira said. “And we can also have lunch in a restaurant… and dream of a world where gays can bust the bad guys, not the other way around.”