Trying New Things

Portland is ripe with people and people that don't fit the normal mold. It is one of the things that make this city so phenomenal. There is a large Drag Queen community and bars/clubs that cater to their performance. There is a program called Senior Forget-Me-Not that is much like the Make a Wish program, but for elderly and much lower key. One of our participants wanted to go to see Darcelle, a Portland/NW famous drag queen at her club Darcelle XV. The evening was much fun and included a limo ride to the show (a first for me) and then a fun night at the show (also a first for me-I've seen Drag Queens perform before, but never at Darcelle's). There were eight of us from work (participant included) that went to the show and we all had a blast. One of my co-workers who came has a son who is a drag queen and she "Bolivia Carmichaels' got to perform during the show, though she usually performs at CC Slaughters, another club around the corner. All of the Drag Queens were great to us, providing lots of photo ops, checking in with us and even introducing the participant to the whole audience. It was glorious.

Darcelle (who is 82) greeting us when we arrived.

 Entryway

 Drag Queen 'Poison Waters' with Meredith and myself...we were both new to Darcelle's that night.

 The show...

 check out that hair...impressive!

 Below is Bolivia as Reba and she did a smashingly good job. Bolivia had also let us borrow several of her feather boa's to make our evening a bit more classy and fun!

All-in-all we had a great evening, even though it was a Friday night after a long week and I was exhausted, I was so glad I was able to go with this group. A great way to start this weekend.