At a table near the back is Miss Latin New England 2002, a cross-dresser, all done up in a spangly silver dress, the better to show off her smoothly toned thighs. Along the bar are gay couples, in matching Abercrombie and Gap, dirty dancing with the drag queens as they pass. “All Roads Lead to Jacque's.” So goes the motto printed on the bar's logo, and so tonight's crowd aptly demonstrates. “We should've had a pole for these girls,” quips Dolly Partonesque host Kris Kneivil during the burlesque competition. A mix of gay and straight, they are wolf-whistling and stuffing dollar bills into the cleavage of the queens as they shimmy through the crowd. (bah, bah, bah, bah-bum).Īll of it is worthy of the title “Miss Gay East Coast,” which is the name of the pageant tonight, even though the only three contestants come from the roster of drag queens who perform at Jacque's Cabaret on any given Friday or Saturday. And awkward “Rockettes” kicks at the end that emphasize the beats the way they were meant to be. Wig that looks like hair that looks like a wig. Sabina Sydney isn't the most beautiful contestant tonight, but her impression of Liza Minnelli doing “New York, New York” Â- not as young, lovable, Radio City Music Hall Liza, but as old, drunk, has-been Liza Â- brings down the house.
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