Well, I just had to share verbatim what Michael Musto wrote in his column for Out magazine just yesterday;
“Do you want further proof of the throbbing drag boom sweeping our nation like a fabulous fungus? Well, I can remember a time when there were 10 or 15 solid drag performers in New York City, and that seemed like a throng. But that’s just pocket change compared to the vast array of tawdry tuckers on parade today. At the reopened bar Boots & Saddle alone, no fewer than 24 drag queens are listed in their weekly lineup of events! It’s a veritable army of men in women’s clothes, shaking their fake titties while lipsynching to Mariah Carey standards. On the roster, there’s Pattaya Hart, Ari Kiki, Flippe Kikee, Svetlana Stoli, M’Lady Uppercrust, Prada G. Major…and 18 more! And that’s just at one bar!”
He loves the new Boots & Saddle bar (extensive line-up below) I haven’t been yet but whoever is doing their retro-punk graphics, A+. And given all the drag brouhaha, he has a blind item about WHICH Drag Race “runner-up”, exactly…?
“… which recent RuPaul’s Drag Race runner up that I previously butted heads with missed a Pride event supposedly because she hit her head, though some insiders have been buzzing otherwise? In fact, some of the other girls claim that this person doesn’t always show up, period. Whatever the case, I’ll give her this much: She’s a pretty girl—and guy too. And that’s important!”
RuPaul’s Drag Race fans, who could that be? I can guess, but I honestly don’t know until I ask Musto. He also had a very strong prediction for Season 8;
“… let me plug up the praise and dabble in just one pesky prediction for the drag future: New York personality Bob the Drag Queen will get on the next season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and she will win. As for those who counter, ‘But you’re the one who famously predicted that Madonna was going nowhere,’ let me reply, ‘I still say I was right.'”
If this actually happens, will we have to give Musto any credit? We won’t have to –he’ll be shouting it from the rooftops, kids. You read it here second.
(via Out)
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