His invitation, which Rangi believed to be written personally by the Fire Lord, expressed a desire to move past the sour note things had ended on and properly honor the Avatar for her part in preventing the Camellia-Peony War. It took two years for Zoryu to invite Kyoshi back to the Fire Nation Capital. This takes place a little over a year after Rangi and Valor first meet. Helpful Context: Rangi has a dragon! Her name is Valor, and the story of their meeting was supposed to come out before this, but things didn’t work out like that. It was 1920s New Orleans, and her pursed crimson lips buzzed a sonorous tone into the speakeasy jazz number. Nearby, two drunken characters schemed and caroused.įor Andrew Schaftlein, his spot in opening night of Louisville's Shakespeare Festival - and its 20th century reimagining of the bard's comedy Twelfth Night - was just one of many drag roles he's taken on in the city over the last year.This is part of a larger collection that I’ll be posting to Ao3, titled The Various Enemies of The Avatar’s Bodyguard, but I thought I’d post individual chapters here as well. The drag queen had a finger wave in her hair and a tuba on her lap. “Young queer people seeing me be successful and doing something that is not always seen as normal - I know that it shows that they can do whatever they want and express themselves however they want.”įollow Uhstel on Instagram: May O'Nays - the Martha Stewart of drag queens But she knows her work now is about more than her.Īs a Black queen who grew up in the West End, “representation matters,” Uhstel said. Uhstel's performances continue to fulfill her love of the stage. "She's always supported me in all of my arts and … I think when I started performing in drag, it was just another stage to her." "I've never once felt unaccepted," Uhstel said.
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Now 28, Uhstel’s work as a professional drag queen has led her to stages from Chicago to Atlanta. She relishes the time she spends with her nieces, whom she adores. She's a fan favorite at Play and is gaining attention on the national drag scene. She's close with her family and visits them in Frankfort often.
Today, she's much closer to the future she wants. Returning to Louisville in 2018, Gilda brought that gumption with her. A pug in a riding helmet atop a miniature horse.Īs Gilda told online news magazine Vice: "Instead of that sentiment carrying forward as a negative, people were like, 'F- yeah, that is the future that I want,' and started making memes about it." They tweeted a barrage of other photos to show what liberals wanted: A hillside of happy dogs. Liberals took to the social media platform en masse, crafting their own jokes. The Twitter user's plan, though, backfired. The text of the tweet: "This is the future that liberals want." In 2017, Gilda became the attempted punchline of an alt-right insult, when a Twitter user shared a photo of her in a subway car wearing a bouffant scarlet wig and seated next to a woman in a black niqab.
It wasn't long before Gilda made national headlines, though not in the way Themer expected. It was there that Sam Themer, a trained opera singer trying to make it big, fell in love with drag - and Gilda, a feisty redhead with an incredible vocal range, was born. She's back home in Kentucky and performing most weekends at Play Louisville, a gay dance club in Butchertown, after spending several years in New York City.
"My roots are here," said Gilda, 30. "My family is here. Gilda Wabbit was born in Louisville, raised in Frankfort and attended college in Lexington.