To Decadence with Love, Thanks for Everything!

I'm feeling good.

Welcome.

Invoking the power of Beyonce

and I feel like there's enough sexual energy

in this room that, like, I could light a match

without a spark.

So yeah, I'm feeling good.

- Will you all just, like, please make room

for a massive drag queen,

and then everybody please welcome to the stage,

the goddess their is Laveau Contraire.

- How'd you get all that to stay on there?

Glue?

Or did you tie it?

Crocheted it, yeah.

Took a long time.

I've been working on this for weeks.

- I think the first time I did Southern Decadence,

it was just as a drag queen.

I don't think I had experienced it before.

'Cause I started drag

shortly after I moved here.

It has been much worse,

but I recently

did some

brush washing and

tried to move some stuff around.

So it was just being like,

what is going on here?

There's so much happiness

and queerness being represented in the streets

and I can walk down the street wearing a wig

and a dress and like

it's cool.

Nobody is bothered.

It's kinda like a second Mardi Gras in a weird way and

if you're not celebrating,

then I hope you're working 'cause

the money is out there to be made.

Okay, sounds good to me.

Pencil me in.

Okay.

All right, sounds good.

All right, later.

- Come to me students I'm waiting for you.

This is really exciting.

I think it's gonna be about seven or eight people.

I'm really hoping there aren't like some

people trying to sneak in here.

this is like a throwback.

So I came out 10 years ago.

Lets go again.

I came out to Bourbon Street for the very first time.

What I didn't know is that

the first time I ever came out to Bourbon Street

was in during Southern Decadence.

So my experience and my association with Decadence

was just like,

this is absolutely crazy.

My memory of seeing like

crazy costumes and me just

both enamored fascinated and kinda terrified

by how much of a spectacle it was.

And then now looking back

and seeing how much I wanted to be part of that spectacle.

And lot of the reasons why I love doing drag and burlesque

and all these other things is because, you know, I'm

part of the spectacle.

I am the spectacle.

So I think

Southern Decadence like really inspired that

and I wanted to be part of whatever that was.

Well,

it's gonna be bigger than the Red Restaurant.

I did that.

I did the road show that weekend and

I pulled in a thousand dollars that weekend.

With Southern Decadence

it's gonna be a big weekend.

New Orleans is a great place.

It's a fun place.

Every city has its quarks but

this weekend,

if you're not a part of this weekend,

then you're not a part of living here.

This is a good weekend for that.

Going into Decadence.

I'm super excited because you know,

I did decadence two years ago

and I didn't really enjoy the experience.

I think I was just a little too green

to the performance scene.

I would just kinda accept anything as it was.

And so now looking back, I'm like,

I was really, really underpaid

the first Decadence that I did drag hoe

but that's not the case this time,

which is a great feeling.

It's a great feeling to know that you're gonna reach

a certain like financial goal.

Like before there are any tips,

before anyone gives you anything

like your base is your financial goal.

And I think that's a really wonderful thing

that was not my reality two years ago.

So right after Decadence, I'm going to New York,

which I'm super excited about

because I think

in New York, there's more opportunities for

kind of spontaneous gigs to show up

because there's just so many people,

there's so many things happening.

You never know when someone might just randomly need a queen

or a weird freaky naked mine, clown thing, lady thing,

we'll see what happens, but either way, I'm super excited.

Word to your kids, don't do drag.

Performing during Southern Decadence is a rollercoaster.

It takes a lot of patience.

It takes a lot of real power

at any point I'm doing any kind of gig.

And it's like,

I think that's just

the pattern of my life right now.

Like at any given moment I could be doing anything.

So it always feels kind of kooky because I'm going from

quite literally like, like what lady Gaga says,

like club club, ice, coffee, another show, another show,

ice, coffee, show.

And sometimes I feel like I'm out of my mind,

but somehow all of it's working.

Typically and historically like

during the month of August, September,

it's the slowest time in New Orleans.

So there's not really a large opportunity to make money

because drag and heat don't go together.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that.

But I think specifically with Southern Decadence,

that the fact that there's this large influx of people

that are coming from all over the country

and they're coming specifically to spend money

and they're coming specifically to spend money

in queer related things,

obviously drag falls underneath that umbrella.

So if you play your cards, right,

if you are networking with the right people,

it's an opportunity to make a lot of money

that just was not there.

Thank you so much.

No problem.

Have a good show.

Be safe.

Happy Decadence.

Thank you.

Alright no freaking out.

Drag guys like you haven't had them out down yet.

Just you wait,

it's coming.

Made them in like 45 minutes.

- So like the tape we'll go to first point we made it.

Exactly.

How are you feeling Logan?

Hot.

Sweaty.

But that's drag in the summer.

Now we have the skirt, right?

That we're gonna reattach once I'm actually ready.

Five, six,

seven,

eight, nine, 10, 11.

It's very in that room.

Just the hoe one.

I just wanna take a moment

to personally thank each and every single one of you

for being here tonight.

This is the biggest show

I do every single year.

There she is.

Come on with me.

This is the biggest show I do every single year for fun.

This is just a show and a bar

surrounded by a sea of thirsty drunk heads.

There are no wrong answers.

There are no wrong rules.

I just want you to walk away having like

the best time of your life.

And then hopefully with lots and lots of money.

So with that being said,

everybody, we're gonna say fuck'em in the hearts.

One, two, three.

Fuck'em in the hearts.

So a few years ago,

In the midst of all the populous high

about being real.

But the same time I was like, you know what?

New Orleans needs another fucking Decadence Show.

I'm too awesome for this.

Everybody thank you very much

and have a great fucking night.

So backstory.

As a music kid I was always like doing theater