I was pointed to this profile (thanks, John!) about former Dallasite, Antoine Ashley aka Sahara Davenport. Normally, we hear most of the Dallas-to-New York buzz from drag band She-Dick (or mostly SD member Candi Shell) but Ashley went and got him a piece in the Times. It doesn’t say too much about his roots in Dallas other than he went to college here but Ashley did mention Big D in his responses.
“The New York scene is so much bigger than in Dallas. In Dallas it’s just a strip. It’s like, a block,” he said.
OK, we get it but hopefully, he’ll come back for a visit. His Catwoman bit is pretty darn fun to watch. Now, if only someone could tell me what an “ambience girl” is.
My favorite part of this story? She gets hired as an ambiance girl for – bar mitzvahs!
When I went to my cousin’s bar mitzvah in Woodstock, NY, and at the door you had a choice of maracas or tambourines rather than a prayer book, I knew that finally, I had encountered a synagogue more liberal and out there than Beth El Binah. But now, my new goal is to go to a bar mitzvah featuring drag queens as ambiance girls. Does she lip-sync the Hebrew and have backup dancers for the Torah readings?
Thanks for the idea, Rich. With our 10-hour marathon Yom Kippur service coming up, I just realized how we can hold everyone’s attention longer.
Hey, this has nothing to do with the post but you might wanna hie over to my blog and take a look at this post https://bigbadbuddhist.blogspot.com/2009/09/so-easy-cave-man-can-do-it.html. I was at a religious service today that referred to homosexuality as a “family tragedy” equivalent to domestic violence, rape, murder or suicide. They also lumped being Buddhist or Muslim into the same “family tragedy” category. Just FYI.