I like drag that can be achieved with lighting, placement, and instagram filters. Instadrag? Copyright Athena McQueen. #instadrag (Taken with instagram)
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I’m performing in Toronto tonight for the first time!
At the Slut Walk 2012 Afterparty at The Old Vic on Church St.
I’m so excited. I’ve (obviously) always wanted to perform in Toronto and this opportunity happened to fall in my lap. It’s all the more awesome because it’s for a cause I believe in, and the proceeds go towards the Slut Walk and the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres.
Come see Athena work it out! I hit the stage around quarter after a midnight (hopefully I won’t turn into a pumpkin!)
TONIGHT
I’m performing tonight for the first time in months.
I haven’t performed since January? I think. Either way it’s been way too long. I have never been so pumped for a performance. And what I love about tonight’s show is that it’s a five minute walk from my new place.
And I know some queens will read me for wearing my Birk’s on the way but queen needs to be able at least perform in my heels.
If I wore my heels on the way there I would be crippled.
Remember when Latrice was like, “Latrice Royale in heels for more than five minutes?”. That’s me.
But I’m ready to WORK. I’m doing PCD’s “Hush Hush; Hush Hush”, which is such a fucking jam. And I’m also reading a piece I wrote called “Gender Terrorist”. The first time I read it I was dressed as Michael, and it’s cool that tonight I’ll be reading it as Athena. And my outfit for that is CUTE.
Today’s drag photo’s are brought to you by the letter “L” for “laziness”.
I got this wig in March and I haven’t been in drag in foreeever and wanted to take some pics in it. So lazy drag can be done with a wig, lips, and sunglasses.
My dad bought me the barett on a recent business trip to Korea. Hilariously enough, he thought they were bow ties, but luckily his son is a drag queen.
Here’s a picture of me performing of what I think was back in December. My top be looking ragged but look at dem CHEEKBONES. I was doing the Glee version of Sweet Transvestite.
I haven’t performed since January. Or been in drag. It’s awful.
I am totally going to put together a Jem and the Holograms medley drag number.
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One of my dreams (and goals) as a drag queen is to re-create Dita Von Teese’s signature martini glass routine.
Few people inspire me as much as she does. She manages to be so completely archaically feminine and beautiful, but almost in an way that’s lost, completely sexually charged and glamorous, all on her own terms.
She is one of the few people around today that really perpetuate and uphold the ideal of “show business” that I’m so obsessed with, and I think it’s slowly coming back (Other people I think that are bringing it back [intentionally or not] are Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Adam Shankman, and so on).
