Jinkx Monsoon

And there are times where I can't say that I felt Judy, but I felt what she felt.

Between, you know, my audiences have been quite fabulous in their own right.

And again, there's the synchronicity of like, I'm on stage singing for everyone.

But we know who I'm singing to.

And that feels like another moment of synchronicity.

And I grew up with all of my queer icons being women I related to.

And now I'm a queer icon, a woman that young people like me love.

can relate to so it's like we're at this point now where queer icons are the queer icons and that's very special and it doesn't mean that we can't still love our divas and and our patron saints you know but it's it's special that we get to step into the spotlight now in a way that

wasn't really allowed when Judy was around.

Yeah, and it's like nowadays women can be very self-aware of that, and men.

I don't know why I'm qualifying it.

It's not like men aren't having a good time with their gay fan bases these days.

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Saved by the dog knocking over something.

This is a travel podcast, not a dating podcast.

It's...

Drag, witchery, music, stand-up comedy.

My stand-up shows are like stand-up shows hybrid with a cabaret concert.

So I tell a lot of story through song.

So it's kind of like my stand-up shows are you get a story, you get some jokes, some snappy one-liners, some burns, some zings.