Gay Pri month is here, and so is Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. To honor the ocsns, we posed some of our own favore queens on some regal seats.
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THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC
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Villa Fontana, Dallas’ first gay bar, opened the 1950s. ” In 1995 a chary queen named Patti La Plae Safe beme the first to bridge that gap by wng the Miss Gay Ameri tle.
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Two unr-reprented and margalized groups, lbian women and the black gay muny, soon found themselv ont and center on the stage. On the more tradnal drag ont, 1996 one of the natn’s most inic drag pageants, Miss Gay USofA, moved s natnal pageant permanently to Dallas.
The first Miss Gay USofA happened at the Dallas Grand Hotel, which is now the Statler, and Natasha Richards was crowned. Wh that same timeame, 2007, Rource Center paired one risg star drag queen — Jenna Skyy — wh another — me — to head the entertament mtee for their monthly fundraiser Gaybgo. Ironilly, they were also fightg for the rights of the closeted and uptight homos who shunned them— those days a lot of gay bars banned drag queens.
Those brave queers had led the charge and paved the way for the whole Gay Liberatn movement.