“I take pride in being one of the two tallest of the DC Sisters, as well as having amazing lips!”
What inspired you to join?
“I’d heard of them before, but they were never in an area close to where I was living. Then a few years again, I had the pleasure of meeting the Atlanta Sisters, and something just clicked in my brain. I knew I wanted to bring that magic and joy to D.C.”
Have you ever done drag before?
“I had considered it in the past. Unfortunately, it involves way too much hair removal for my liking.”
Drag artists and advocates fighting back in the culture war against drag and LGBTQ rights have seen triumphs and setbacks this summer. Two recent federal court decisions -- one in Florida, the other in Texas -- illustrate opposite shifts in the war being waged over anti-drag laws in states around the nation.
In August, a federal appeals court upheld Florida's law that bans performers or venues from conducting any "adult live performance" in the presence of a minor. The law defines "adult live performance" in terms loose enough to apply to practically any performer who appears in drag in a public space -- from a drag brunch to a Pride parade -- where a minor could be present, even with their parent or guardian's consent.
Reality TV works in mysterious ways. An ostensible loss can quickly and unexpectedly be transformed into a win, especially in the hands of a queen who's prepared. RuPaul's Drag Race favorite Salina EsTitties, a.k.a. Jason De Puy, was heartbroken, she says, that her run on the recent All Stars season 11 came to an end in her first round of competition.
The feisty Latina performer, who first competed on Drag Race proper three years ago, returned for All Stars with fierce new looks and a fierce attitude, but still missed the cut of queens who made it out of their bracket to the Merge, where finalists would compete.
Two gay bars in San Francisco's Castro district say they have paused their use of a controversial ID-scanning system that photographs patrons following backlash from the local LGBTQ community.
In June, local news outlet Gazetteer reported that at least three LGBTQ bars -- The Mix, Badlands, and Toad Hall -- were using PatronScan Guard+, an ID-scanning system that photographs patrons and stores their images in a database.
The database contains a patron's zip code, birth date, gender, ID expiration date, and photograph. Patronscan says the photograph serves only as a time-stamped record of the patron's appearance and is not used for facial recognition or biometric identification.
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