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If you read throuh this blog, you’ll discover a few things.  I move a couple times in the last couple years.  I decided to leave the Washington DC area and tried Philly.   Philly really didn’t work for me so when I was about to move back, I got a call from a recruiter who sent me to a company in the Chicago area and told me about this amazing and wonderful company and how perfect and wonderful Chicago is.   Turns out this wasn’t a wise decision either.

I’ve been homesick for Washington DC for the past year and going back last weekend really helped me realize where home is for me.

Although I wasn’t raised there, I have no family there, no job or apartment, it just felt like I was home and where I need to be.  Chicago is alright, however it is not the right place for me.   It is amazing to visit and the people are amazingly friendly.  It is also one of the last affordable major cities left in the country and has a booming gay life with Boystown and Andersonville.  Gay sports teams, leather bars, dyke bars, bathhouses, twink  clubs, sports bars, gay groups for people who don’t like bars, tons of fabulous restaraunts and just about everything someone could want.   However it just doesn’t feel like home, instead it feels like a mediocre vacation that just goes day to day.   Maybe it is the fact that I have to drive forever to get to work at a job I hate each day because they discriminate against me and are forcing me to work with someone who threatened physical harm because I wouldn’t give private information in a database to him because he was only a consultant, or maybe it is all the racist and slanderous remarks and comments I have to deal with on an almost daily basis, or maybe it is the fact that after I was outed they took away most of my perks and priveldges, but most of all I think it is being in a city I don’t like and traveling to a company that treats employees like dirt and on top of it all, all my friends just aren’t the same as back home in DC.  Anyways sorry for the vent but I am just very down right now.

So lastnight my best friend and I went to go see Rupaul at Town nightclub in washington dc.  I remember loving her and watching her perform in videos from a ton of shows like Wigstock or on MTV in supermodel and at Spring Break.  She used to have her talk show on VH1 and you know what, she has also released some fabulous hit songs like Supermodel and her one about cosmetic surgery.  Rupaul has done everything from Model to sing and even release a pretty fabulous Holiday/Christmas Album called Ho Ho Ho (I actually still listen to this album every year), however, much like many Divas in the past, I am very sad to say that Rupaul, Gay Icon and Diva (just my opinion) is past her prime.

Now, maybe it was just the mood, but I don’t think that was it considering we were soo pumped and the crowd was going crazy and energy was everywhere.   Maybe it was that she decided to not even come out on time,,,that we had to wait nearly half an hour for her to actually start performing.  Maybe it was that we couldn’t really hear her singing, or maybe it was that she wasn’t singing any of her hits but instead rapping about tranny chasers and performing some stupid raps that noone had heard of, but this show was not worth it.  She is still amazingly beautiful and has the perfect hourglass figure, but her face just looked tired and we could barely hear any energy in her voice.  I used to hear soo much behind her voice when she would sing but her voice sounded dead like she just wasn’t into it.  In fact, come to think of it, she really didn’t dance or do anything on stage but sit there talking into a microphone and looking like a deer in the headlights.  I know stagefright is a scary thing, but you can overcome it and try to move instead of just standing there.  Drag queens are performers and need to constantly feed the audience the illusion of woman and give them the energy that they need to go crazy and unfortunately, the drag queens in the audience were much better at performing that Rupaul and the only energy in the building came from the crowd, not the headliner like it should have been.  Anyways, I still love her and some of her albums, but much like other 90′s divas, Rupaul has now moved into the past for me and most of the people I talked to at the show and tomorrows gay youth will find their new drag diva to perform and enetertain them.

Rupaul, we love you here at Gay Wedding Gear, but our opinion is that you need to relearn what made you famous, your energy, your force, your attitude and your overall performance.  Washington DC still loves you and we love you here as well but please bring back the Diva we all know and love.  I’ll probably not go to another Rupaul show, but if you bring back all the energy, I’d gladly recommend everyone else come see you.

My ticket to see Rupaul at Town in Washington DC

This is my friends chiuaua eating my rupaul ticket.

The famous and fabulous Rupaul performing.