She spreads her legs and places her hands on her thighs. She bows her head, moves her hands slowly along the hills and valleys of her lithe figure, then stops. The crowd stops too. Velour pumps and pushes, sways, prays and Rockettes her way through the song. The crowd roars the roar of the satisfied and the united.
Velour takes a bow and is escorted off the floor.
But Velour Montana isn't the belle of the ball. Society continues to label Queens as deviants and degenerates. Even the gay community, of which they are part, ostracizes Queens, deeming them an embarrassment. Although many gay men applaud drag queens on stage, few, it seems, are comfortable seeing them in daylight, under the gaze of the media. But like it or not, the cameras are on them, and a slow yawn of understanding has begun to overcome mainstream society.