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  Gossip, Gossip, Gossip!

g Drag Queen Diva Tori Nado Spins her
; own story of Winter is a Drag Ball 2006’

5 A Tori: “Call a cab, and make sure it’s a van!”

A Friend: * “What do you need a van for?”
Tori: “My hair’s too big for a regular cab!”
BY TORI moo

he above is not gossip — it’s the danm
truth. My hair was way too big, but it
certainly made an impression when I at-
tended the 11th Annual Winter is a Drag Ball at
I-Iighe r Ground. Most people (Donald Trump)
talk about location, location, location. Well, on
February 11, 2006 that cfiché held true. My Bad
Weather Girl entourage (Val Kano, Sue Nami
& Dawn Pour) and I blew into ‘both ballrooms
with such a force of nature that the H.G. security
nearly called FEMA.

To start things off, The
House of LeMay played '
hostesses to Over 800 won-
derfully, outlandish attendees
on that frigid (see: Anne Coul-
ter), Saturday evening. Amber,
Marguerite, Lucy Belle, and
‘Liza (not of the Minelli vari-
ety) not only hosted the eve-
ning, but also hob-knobbed,
sang, danced and coordi-
A ‘ nated the entire Ball — and
that takes balls. At the start
of the evening, The LeMay’s performed their
trailer-park-inspired cabaret act in the Showcase
Lounge with their talented back up band The
Decoys.
Meanwhile, in the Ballroom, punk-rock lo-
cals The Dirty Blondes gave a whiskey-in-i

     

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CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: Tori Nado [DE]; "Express Yourself" Madonna
[DE]; Dawn Pour, the Jo-Ann Fabrics lady, Val Cano [DE]; Tori (again), Lucy
Belle LeMay [DE]; The Dirty Blondes (Bobbi, El Jefe, Reverend) [ACVV];
fabulous drag perfomer [DE], Nathan "Biba" Jarvis of Phantasmagoria [ACW].

 

PHOTOGRAPHERS: DON EGGERT [DE], ADAM
COOPER WOOD [ACW], JOSH LUNETTA [JL]