Dekedek

"I wanna look like what I am, but I don’t know what someone like me looks like. When people look at me, I want them to think there’s one of those people who has their own interpretation of happiness."

“Maybe 15 years ago when the movie ‘The Birdcage’ was all the rage and it was ‘in’ to have a drag queen perform at your party the way that you would have an ice sculpture or crudités. I booked myself, [fellow drag queens] Damien Devine and Daisy Deadpetals to perform at the 21st birthday of the son of race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi. Before going on, I went to hide in the kitchen to go over the lines of the song I was going to lip-sync, and who else was hiding in the kitchen with me but George Harrison of the Beatles! I thought to myself, ‘What can we talk about? What can I say to him? I’m sure he’s sick about talking about the Beatles,’ and I know that he was sued by the Shirelles for that song ‘My Sweet Lord’. Was it Bangladesh or no nukes? So I looked around the room and both our eyes settled on the cake and I said, ‘I wonder what kind of cake it is?’ He said in his Beatles accent, ‘I love wedding cake, I love white cake, I love all kinds of cake!’ So one of my best memories of Miami Beach was hiding in a kitchen in full drag in a gazillionaire’s home with one of the Beatles talking about our mutual love of cake and all of the different cake varieties. And that was just a day at the office for me back in the 90’s.”