Last Night at the Stable….
The Stable Bar in Downtown Providence, Rhode Island has become a destination venue for the darker side of drag talent. With Boston’s famed Violencia Exclamation Point and Providence’s own Ninny Nothin as resident hosts, the Stable has been importing stars from the dark-drag competition television series, Dragula much to the delight of local drag super-fans.
Is the future of drag a Waka Shame?
Waka Shame's carefully constructed looks merge glamour with a unique, under-worldly nature-spirit fantasy and to be honest, more than any other queen, Waka Shame inspires the type of drag I aspire too...because drag has the potential to be so much more than just lip-syncing at the gay bar and a rolodex of slick reads.
The Boulet Brothers: High Queens of Dark & Dirty Drag
I slammed my laptop shut on Season 1, Episode 1 of Dragula - the Drag Competition Reality show that replaces "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent" with "Horror, Filth & Glamour". The first extermination challenge was so creepy and gross I wasn't sure I had the nerve for this show. Yes the discovery that my borrowed Netflix account hosted Season 2, and my fast-fondness for the subterranean sexual tension between Biqtch Puddin & Abhora, quickly converted me into a feisty Dragula fanatic.
Biqtch Puddin'
Biqtch Puddin', aka Steven Glen Diehl, winner of Season 2 of the Boulet Brother's Dragula show makes #2 in my top 5 not for being a fiercely ghoulish trash queen, but for having a HUGE heart, the biggest heart, perhaps, in the entire drag industry, for Biqtch makes a point to make sure every single follower & fan of his ground-breaking, path-forging Digital Drag Show knows that they are valued and loved and important to him.