Well, yes, courage, but more so the desire to expand her platform, and reach as many people as possible. “Did you feel like it gave you the courage?,” I ask. She remarks that her work with BASE Camp is behind why she finally did RuPaul's Drag Race. “And then we packed up all the girls and everybody, and went on down there for her.” After the show, the fan kept coming back to performances, and lived well over a year before she moved to hospice. When asked why, the fan told her it was to cross off her bucket list, as she'd never seen a drag show. She met one fan, diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a prognosis of two weeks left to live, when she requested a drag performance as her Second Wish. BASE Camp's Second Wish program allows children who've relapsed receive a “second wish,” as they'd received their once-in-a-lifetime wish during their first fight with cancer, and are thus ineligible to receive a second from some other foundation. Her manager (husband? handler?) Mama Rose gently prompted her to talk about Second Wishes. Much of our interview revolved around her and her production company's charity work for BASE Camp Children's Cancer Foundation. China hopes they can do the same in the Panama City scene, performing the sort of outreach which lays the groundwork for cultural enlightenment in a still largely bigoted South. it's not like we're just gonna go out there and drop an F bomb.” China Moon, the opener of the show and an eighteen-year local queen, chimes in, telling Ginger how much she respects that the Orlando scene has increasingly connected the tourist world with the queer communities who've lived there for years. “It's like Sonny & Cher, but with two dudes. She describes it as a family friendly show. Her work in dinner theatre ultimately drew her to Hamburger Mary's, where she hosts Broadway Brunch with The Minx. But she credits her success bridging that gap (and working a tourist crowd successfully) with her ten years' work in dinner theatre productions along the Orlando strip. When I ask if she sees a night-and-day situation going on in the Orlando scene, she says yes, to a degree. I ask if she found it difficult to break through? At first, yes, she responds, but once she did, she had a lot of success with her approach. I had to carve a niche for myself.” Ginger, who gleefully identifies as a “Glamour Toad,” does a mix of pageant queen and comedy. When she was coming up, it was “mostly T girls. I ask her about the Orlando drag scene, her hometown and where she got her start.
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