As in Dita Garbo!
I love most drag queens. But when I drag queen is over 50 and still looks this fricking gorgeous and with the old school charm and style, yet with an edge of couture, and is still giving and serving it...I'm there for it. When it comes to Dita, think glamorous and alluring love child of Dita Von Teese and Greta Garbo. Dita Garbo is an acclaimed drag artist, performer, host, producer, educator and chorographer. From hosting events, brunches and prides to educate in schools and working with local LGBTQ+ community and charities. When you have an older queen, the nice things are they bring class, and more wisdom. And if younger queens need motherly love and advice, an older queen is there to give it. Dita got into drag in Madrid years, and years ago, with an androgynous drag group. While the drag career started taking off, Dita took a 15-year break to travel the world as a professional dancer teacher, but once a drag queen, always a drag queen. When Dita re-emerged, it was as a burlesque diva, and created quite the little drag scene, and big drag splash in her town of Folkstone. Of course that was now 30 years ago. And at 51 she was a dragtestant on RuPaul's Drag Race UK where she brough equal doses of talent, experience, and beyond, style and panache. She sadly placed 12th, but in my opinion some queens don't need Drag Race to get accomplished and finding a following. Or to be told they are fabulous....
She's got all sorts of looks, each more fabulous than the last and I will be singing "Dance Bitch" all day!
ReplyDeleteLOVE!
ReplyDeleteLove her in full glam and when she's edgy, too! And she's BODIED.
Love me a Queen who can do it all. And that video is catchy as hell!
I WANT MORE!
XOXO
I think she may have been one of the oldest queens to compete on Drag Race....in the top five at least....and you sure wouldn't know it. Just adore her style of drag.
DeleteFeathers and Glamour !!! . Love the Video..
ReplyDeleteThe first B&W close-up, again another one of my aunt Florence’s friends. I wonder if they were all drag queens and I didn’t realize it. They all had gravelly voices. Maybe it had nothing to do with all the smoking.
ReplyDeleteI was just going to ask you Mitchell if your Aunt Florence was a fag hag, and all her friends were actually drag queens? This would make sense. Or they had way too much fashion sense for real women!
DeleteSWEET MARY SUNSHINE, sweetpea! What a Queen! Is she still performing? Loved the video. xoxo
ReplyDeleteYes girl! Over 30 years.....
DeleteFolkestone?! Poor love. The best thing that happened to that dump was the Channel Tunnel, through which people could escape... Dita has some balls to rise above all of it! Jx
ReplyDeletePS And not all drag queens have to be young - in fact, the best of all of 'em is generally the time-served old trouper!
HERE HERE!!!!!!
DeleteSo great many looks, and this diva of drag placed 12th in a contest ?!
ReplyDeleteIn one photo she looks like New Orleans 1960’s stripper Rita ‘Champagne Girl’ Cadillac, and in another she looks like Angelique Pettyjohn from an episode of Star Trek. They shouldn’t underestimate a veteran drag diva. Knew of several when I was in the stripper circuits all over the USA and Canada.
-CA jock
Now I know I need drinks with you to hear some stories!!!!! I love any drag queen really, but the old school veteran queens I truly love. They will slap this shit out of you first and ask questions later.
DeleteShe's fantastic!
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