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Former Dallas drag queen profiled in the New York Times (and it’s not a member of She-Dick)
September 11th, 2009
I was pointed to this profile (thanks, John!) about former Dallasite, Antoine Ashley aka Sahara Davenport. Normally, we hear most of the Dallas-to-New York buzz from drag band She-Dick (or mostly SD member Candi Shell) but Ashley went and got him a piece in the Times. It doesn’t say too much about his roots in Dallas other than he went to college here but Ashley did mention Big D in his responses.
“The New York scene is so much bigger than in Dallas. In Dallas it’s just a strip. It’s like, a block,” he said.
OK, we get it but hopefully, he’ll come back for a visit. His Catwoman bit is pretty darn fun to watch. Now, if only someone could tell me what an “ambience girl” is.
Tags: drag queen, New York Times, Sahara Davenport, She-Dick
September 12th, 2009 at 6:41 am
My favorite part of this story? She gets hired as an ambiance girl for – bar mitzvahs!
When I went to my cousin’s bar mitzvah in Woodstock, NY, and at the door you had a choice of maracas or tambourines rather than a prayer book, I knew that finally, I had encountered a synagogue more liberal and out there than Beth El Binah. But now, my new goal is to go to a bar mitzvah featuring drag queens as ambiance girls. Does she lip-sync the Hebrew and have backup dancers for the Torah readings?
Thanks for the idea, Rich. With our 10-hour marathon Yom Kippur service coming up, I just realized how we can hold everyone’s attention longer.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Hey, this has nothing to do with the post but you might wanna hie over to my blog and take a look at this post http://bigbadbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/09/so-easy-cave-man-can-do-it.html. I was at a religious service today that referred to homosexuality as a “family tragedy” equivalent to domestic violence, rape, murder or suicide. They also lumped being Buddhist or Muslim into the same “family tragedy” category. Just FYI.