The first time I see one of Charlie’s house drag queens, Venus Anne Sexton, is on a poster that is hanging above my barstool at the u-shaped bar.
However, this will be my only experience over the course of two weeks that lives up to this stereotype. “Oh yeah, I’m writing a story about Charlie’s,”ĭrag queens have a reputation, especially within their own community, as being ruthless and bitchy. I don’t know what he’s talking about at first. At the sink, my backpack hangs open, and the gay man standing behind me in the women’s room peers in and spots my notebook. This isn’t the first dive-y bathroom I’ve been in on Colfax, and so far, I think the best places have the worst bathrooms. I’m in a dark bathroom stall at Charlie’s Nightclub on a busy Sunday drag show night.
