“We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art”

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there.

Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You’re going to get criticized by everyone.

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day,

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin’s Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.