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them in an hour or less to see who has the ‘best transformation.’”)
“They always call the one who puts you in drag your
Drag Mother. She had done me up. It was about five years
ago at the Neurolux.”
“I really enjoyed it. It allows you to be somebody else.
You are shedding this cocoon.”
Jim needed a name so they came up with a funny, satirical name of Summers Eve Douché.
Jealous of My Boogie
“I said I was going to do drag for Halloween. I became friends with the
queens at the bar and one of them put me in drag for Halloween. That is
when we first started the Court system in Chico.”
“I met all of these people in the Court system. I met Bunny and Jolene
Bixler, who were the dual Empresses of Boise. We became such good
friends that they told me to move to Boise after my partner died. I was
done with Chico; too many bad memories. I moved here in 2003 and
became Empress in 2006.”
Looking Good, Feeling Gorgeous
“When I first did drag, my friend, who was a hairdresser, got a red wig
and just ratted it out to hell. Everybody said, ‘You look just like Reba
McIntyre.’“
“Well, I said, ‘I’m not Reba McIntyre, I’m Reba McEnwhat.’ And that
just stuck.”
Reba was the Queen who put Jim in drag.
“I did drag for the first time at Closet Ball. “
(I found the definition of the Closet Ball from The Imperial Sovereign
Gem Court of Idaho’s website stating, “[the] Closet Ball is a fun, judged
contest where those who don’t normally do drag have a Queen ’paint’
“We are lovingly referred to as ‘The Grannies.’ We are
the two oldest in the Court.”
“Reba has a plethora of drag – wigs, shoes, gowns and jewelry. We
always wear fake nails – Lee Press-Ons, we do not use the glued ones.
I would classify our drag as ‘high drag’ – you just want to wear lots of
make-up, big hair, big jewelry. We just want to be over-the-top.”