Miss Piggy, I think, is the big costumes, the “I am a movie star. Every room I walk into the story is about me.” That’s the full fantasy of drag. For Dolly Parton, it’s big, flashy costumes and the fact that you can continue to be a genuine and sweet Southern person and still be successful. And then for me, Mr. Rogers is probably the most important, and that’s about just recognizing each person’s humanity, and hopefully letting them see themselves in something that you do and to show them that no matter how different we all are, we’re actually a whole lot more similar.
On everyone being in drag in their own way
It’s really freeing to understand that you’re not married to the shell, the aesthetic, the things that people see. We’re so much more than our body.
Bella DuBalle
You get up in the morning and you decide what you want to put on based on how you want the world to perceive you. What I’m going to wear for a lazy day at home cleaning is very different than what I’m going to wear if I’m going to a wedding or a funeral, and that’s very different than what I’m going to wear if I’m going out on a Saturday night clubbing with friends. You change your exterior based on what you want the world to perceive you as. That’s all drag is. And for me, when you can look at this creation that I made on stage and say, “Wow, that’s not really who that person is. This illusion that I’m seeing is not who that person is,” my hope is that then the light bulb goes off and you realize, “Wow, this illusion I’m presenting is not really who I am.” And it’s really freeing to understand that you’re not married to the shell, the aesthetic, the things that people see. We’re so much more than our body.
On how the new law affects the club and her personally
If the law stands as it is and is enforced the way that they would like it to be, then we would not be able to welcome people under the age of 18 into our all-ages brunch. If it stands that they will not allow any drag being classified as adult cabaret here in public, that means no drag performers in the Pride Parade and festival. I, as a minister, have been asked to marry couples in public in drag. I don’t know if that would be legal anymore, if my religious freedom supersedes this law or if it would be infringed upon. …
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