Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 297 – January 4, 2017
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay population is interested in.
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BY MICHAEL TODD<br />
PUBLISHER, GET OUT! MAGAZINE<br />
Photo by DetoxxImage<br />
Post Production by Flippe Kikee<br />
Honey Davenport<br />
Drag queen, DJ, recording artist, go-go boy<br />
and pageant slayer Honey Davenport does it all!<br />
What got you started<br />
as a drag queen?<br />
I used to dance backup<br />
for Peppermint and<br />
Sherry Vine. Then Sahara<br />
moved right across the<br />
street and introduced<br />
me to Deja Davenport.<br />
I was completely blown<br />
away. Sahara and Deja<br />
helped me sculpt the<br />
drag persona that had<br />
been burning inside me.<br />
I had always had a desire<br />
to perform with my full<br />
potential fabulousness,<br />
but it wasn’t until I was<br />
surrounded by so many<br />
great queens doing it so<br />
well that I gave myself the<br />
permission to light my<br />
own little flame. Now it’s a<br />
bonfire.<br />
What is the most<br />
embarrassing thing<br />
you’ve done as a queen?<br />
I once got so drunk that<br />
I couldn’t find my shoes<br />
after a show. Almost had<br />
to go home barefoot.<br />
Thank God Mitch Ferrino<br />
helped me get a cab. I<br />
really love getting lit, but<br />
I try to not get that turnt<br />
anymore. That’s my motto<br />
now: “Lit, Not Turnt.”<br />
Who are your musical<br />
inspirations?<br />
Beyoncé, Beyoncé and<br />
Beyoncé. For true. But<br />
seriously, I have been<br />
inspired by many<br />
musicians. My new singles<br />
are particularly informed<br />
by Robyn, Janet and Kelis.<br />
Who is your favorite<br />
queen in NYC?<br />
That’s a hard one,<br />
but I have to choose<br />
my daughter Kareem<br />
McJagger. He/she is<br />
so talented, and I keep<br />
getting newly surprised<br />
and delighted by<br />
whatever crazy aspect s/<br />
he’s just brilliantly added<br />
to his drag. I am also a<br />
huge fan of Brita Filter.<br />
She is a force to be<br />
reckoned with. Tammy<br />
Spenks is always a kiki.<br />
She literally has zero fucks<br />
to give, and that’s my kind<br />
of girl.
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