Flutterby™! : HallowQueen

Went down to HallowQueen last night. Got there late after a missed fairyferry and hassles parking, the whole Castro was, of course, shut down for the celebration, and had I not driven down to the ferry building to pick up Charlene we probably would have just ended up Muni-ing in from the financial district, but...

We arrived after the bits about the documentary being made on Carol Queen, the famous sex author, activist and teacher, and her brother John, who's a fundamentalist Christian. Our friends who got there earlier said we didn't miss anything, but that might be because they aren't as familiar with the scene and backstory as we were.

We did, however, arrive in time for the pageant. Mixed results except for Robert as the Baroness Griselda von Beitte-Meihasse, who did an amazing performance to "I Never Do Anything Twice"; engaging the audience, owning the stage, and lip-synching (I think...) flawlessly. And Pretty, Mistress of Ceremonies, had on a really cool butterfly dress and did a reasonable balance between catty nasty drag queen and encouraging some of the obvious newbies in the line-up.

Our costumes got us stopped for pictures a few times, I rehashed the nurse outfit from Kiki's bachelorette party a few years ago, with the enema bag and latex gloves, and Charlene did a split personality thing, a really cool black on one side white on the other outfit.

But as we stepped out of the theatre into Halloween in the Castro in full swing we decided that being packed in with so many people with a relatively high gawker to costume ratio wasn't our scene, so we hiked back to the car and headed north.