Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 507
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 a 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 a population is interested in.
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BY JIM SILVESTRI<br />
Bootsie Lefaris<br />
<strong>Get</strong> <strong>Out</strong>! <strong>Magazine</strong>’s Queen of the Year<br />
During this past year,<br />
Bootsie just celebrated<br />
12 years at “Queen”, as<br />
well as performing at Rise<br />
Bar, Pieces, Hardware, and<br />
Playhouse Bar, in addition to<br />
special guest appearances at<br />
Monster for the Spunk event.<br />
She also appears at Laurie<br />
Beechman Theatre.<br />
PHOTO CREDIT: STEVEN GABRIEL<br />
Follow Bootsie on social<br />
media: IG @thebootsielefaris,<br />
as she posts her last minute<br />
performances and can turn<br />
up just about anywhere in the<br />
city at any time.<br />
Thotyssey spoke to Bootsie<br />
right before her show as she<br />
sings, struts and clowns her<br />
way to our hearts”<br />
BEST DESCRIPTION<br />
OF MY DRAG:<br />
Chaotic, sloppy,<br />
glamorous,<br />
invigorating,<br />
calisthenics, standup/<br />
sit-down<br />
comedy, passionate,<br />
informative, freeing,<br />
cheap and expensive<br />
at the same time,<br />
mostly free.<br />
HOW MANY YEARS<br />
I’VE BEEN AT IT: 18<br />
years. Started when I<br />
was 17 years old.<br />
ORIGINAL<br />
HOMETOWN: Chapin,<br />
S.C.<br />
FAVORITE NUMBER<br />
TO DO: Number 2<br />
FAVORITE COSMETIC<br />
PRODUCT: Anything<br />
from One Size, Fenty<br />
Beauty, Benjamin<br />
Moore, Home Goods.<br />
REASON I STARTED<br />
DRAG: Like a<br />
mosquito to the bug<br />
zapper, I’ve always<br />
been drawn to the<br />
light.<br />
MOST IMPORTANT<br />
DIVA EVER: (SINGER/<br />
ACTRESS ETC.):<br />
A drag performer I<br />
admire: Let me get<br />
back to you on that.<br />
THE MAN OF MY<br />
DREAMS: The limit<br />
does not exist.
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