Daily Archives: June 14, 2009

After J’s birthday, we planned to take the friends to The Complex Night Club.  We were warned it was under new management, but we didn’t listen.  We arrived there around 10pm and the parking lot was empty.  But it was pretty early for a Friday night, so we decided to go in anyway.  And it was no cover charge before 11, so that rocked.  The place did eventually begin to fill up, but with kids ranging from 18 to 20.  Suddently, we were singled out at the bar like 8th grade chaperones at an 80s school dance.  Club kids, clad in fingerless gloves, glitter, fauxhawks, polos and neck ties, Underroos, and knee high socks crowded around the dance floor with their glow sticks and bottles of water to watch the drag show.

The show was hosted by Siren.  Click on her name to watch a video of her.  She wasn’t too bad.  But her cast mates were a Marilyn Manson wannabe named Nick October, some over make-up’ed queen whose name I can’t remember, and a short drag king named Ryan.  Nick October had short hair, no boobs, and wore one piece pant suits low cut to show off his chest tattoos.  He was quite scary.  Like I said, Siren was okay, but my favorite had to be Ryan.  He (she) was a stout little performer with a garage band attitude.  In one of his numbers, he wore a Chinese/Russianesqe black and red uniform and danced around with a red paper umbrella.  However, I couldn’t help but wonder if this is what drag shows have come to!

Back when I was in my late teens and early twenties and flaunting around in my cuffed jeans with my bottle of water and glow necklace, drag queens had big boobs, big hair, and big camp.  They weren’t these skinny, boobless, short hair, dominatrix-like kids. Don’t believe me?  Here’s my old friend Allysun Wonderland from Memphis, Tennessee.

And here she is with another of my ole favs, Miss Beverly Hills…