Every year, the week following P Town’s spectacular annual Carnival in August sees one of the best events of the whole season takes place. What is even more special about it is that fact there is no organizer or planning, people juts know to show up at Bubula’s Restaurant on that Thursday at 2 pm. Wearing drag of course.
The occasion is Townie Drag Brunch an annual event started originally about 15 years ago ostensibly for all the town residents to who had been working during the actual Carnival Parade itself the previous week. Over the years the qualification for attendance has relaxed slightly, but the essence of the event is still very much in tact. Everyone looks to create, make and improvise their own very unique outfits, but even with all that glam piled on, there is never any attempt to even start to disguise the fact that they may all be in DR(essed) A(s) G (irls), they are all (every inch) men.
This year as we filmed the afternoon for PTV we were also invited into the pre-party to witness make-up being applied and shoes being squeezed into whilst bubbly was being consumed. (No-one ever seems to eat much, even though it is technically a Brunch). The whole spontaneous gathering is a sheer joy to be part of, and also enormous fun to witness when the streets of the Town are full of this outrageously dressed bunch of drag queens-for-a-day as they totter to T Dance in their very high heels to finish the afternoon.
P.S. The (real) lady at the end of movie who is taking in the sights is Marilyn Maye the legendary jazz singer who had been performing in Town. Click here to see the interview we did with her driving around town in the back of her Rolls Royce.
Video & Editing : Rik Ahlberg
Special Thanks : Patrick Lammerson
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