Our High St if nothing else is very dynamic! The business offerings constantly evolve, particularly within the restaurant/bar sector. And they need to of course. Recently Blend brought in a pop up restaurant menu for the evenings. Some time back Brouhaha had done the same. Both have proved popular.
For Beans & Barley their shop has gone after just a year (as Harringay Local turns 2) and now they are looking for your ideas for entertainment based within their extended cafe area, with comedy a possibility. Board game evenings are another.
Now the restaurant Tramp is extending its offering from the occasional band night to cabaret, with a 'Young Drag Queen' act. It's not clear yet whether it will come with your mains or dessert but, it all kicks off at 9pm on the evening in question.
Whatever next?
Interestingly, as Hugh's post shows, such shows were around in this area way back in the 60s.
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Sorry to hear that Lauren...here's a write up from Huffington Post about Drag and the reasons behind it, nothing to do with Femininity it seems...your call and decision to make of course...
Drag is a celebration. Drag is an attitude. Today’s drag queen is often a gay man who has embraced that part of himself that, as a child, was considered shameful and undeserving. Rather than allowing himself to be bullied, he has revealed that hidden aspect of himself, dressed her up, made her fabulous and invincible. He has found strength in her and wears her like a shield. Drag is some of the best parts of who he is, magnified and impervious.
Seems to me the "problem here" is that just as you accuse everyone of somehow "mocking, sneering and deriding", you also assume you have the right to speak on behalf of ALL women and on behalf of gay people as well.
As a gay man - one with a SENSE OF HUMOUR (or is that a "feminine side that I need to unleash"?), I might add - I rather enjoy drag shows and, believe it or not , so do women, straight and gay. More often than not over 50% of the audience for any drag show - and they are ALWAYS packed-out - is made up of women, all laughing. The humour may be end-of-the-pier but never as cruel as you seem to imagine. Nobody is "victimised"; nobody on any drag stage would survive for long if they even vaguely behaved like Bernard Manning or his ilk.
What, Lauren, do YOU do for entertainment? If it's feminist stand-up poetry, I think I'll decline.
Tris - I love you. I guessed this "Lauren" was just in here to cause trouble. "Mansplaining" indeed. Does anyone with a brain actually use such a phrase? It's tantamount to calling heterosexuals "breeders". Oh, sorry, "she" already has.
I think its really sad. That someone feels the need to be this vile against another women (not very feminist!) I wonder what the REAL agenda is for trolls that what to make people feel such offence.
Thank you TRIS for sharing this.
Thank you Michael.
Exactly what we're trying to do Emma. x
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