PS: How do people typically respond to what you do?
F: I definitely get people who are confused, so I tend to have to explain it a lot. Women often also ask me if drag queens think I'm stepping on their territory, and if they're b*tchy to me, which I think comes from the stereotype that RuPaul's Drag Race might be perpetuating. Once people understand what I do, I get the feeling that they assume I've stormed the gates or pulled one over on all those guys. I suppose that is a sort of a quasi-feminist read, but it couldn't be further from the truth. A lot of people have blazed trails, but I've just walked into a very open door, and I don't ever feel like I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes. I'm not pretending that I've had an experience that I've never had. Gay men are my people, and I don't hang out with transphobes or misogynists; so the gay-friendly people I hang out with totally get what I do.
