What was it about that framing, fighting hate with joy, that just made you say yes?ĭawn: I mean, I think for me, drag has always given me joy. We know that they are and what can we do to draw attention to this? But not only that - how do we fight the hate with joy? That was our internal mantra for the show, which if you’re ever trying to persuade a friend to do something, that’s a great persuasion tactic. So my friend Emma Mcilroy, who is the CEO of Wildfang - a gender non-conforming clothing company in town that I have long been a super fan - called me up and was like, I think that these drag ban are going to have a negative impact on the world. Miller: So Eden, can you tell us what the pitch was, who it came from?ĭawn: Yes. It’s called “Slaying a Drag-a-thon.” They call it a “sidecast” of their regular podcast, “We Can’t Print This.” Eden Dawn joins us now to talk about it along with BinKyee Bellflower, one of the drag queens who helped break the record. But when Portland writer and podcast host, Eden Dawn, a lifelong fan of drag, was pitched the idea of bettering that by 12 hours, she said, “Yes.” As you’ve probably heard by now, she and a huge team of passionate people were ultimately successful, but any one of a number of mishaps could have jeopardized the whole project.Įden Dawn and the writer Fiona McCann produced a recent five-part podcast telling the story of how it all happened. The previous record set in Australia, something like five years ago, was about 36 hours. Over the summer, a group of Portlanders attempted to do something no one had ever done before: put on a continuous drag show for 48 hours in a row. This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. Joining us in studio to talk about the highlights and lowlights are Dawn and BinKyee Bellflower, one of the drag queens that helped break the record. Any one of a series of mishaps and near misses could have shuttered the whole project.ĭawn and Fiona McCann produced a five-part podcast telling the story of the triumphs and the tribulations, called “ Slaying a Drag-a-thon,” which is a “sidecast” of their regular show, “We Can’t Print This.” The whole event was also a fundraiser with $309,000 donated to the Trevor Project, which helps LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. Still, that outcome was anything but certain. At the end of the two days, a representative of the Guinness World Records pronounced the record set, and presented performers with the official certificate. What Dawn ended up producing was a 48-hour extravaganza created with a cast of dozens of performers - 60 drag queens, and an assortment of MCs and stand-up comedians, as well as a large and dedicated crew behind the scenes. So when Portland writer and podcast host Eden Dawn was pitched the idea of beating the world record for the longest continuous drag show by her friend Emma Mcilroy, co-founder and CEO of Wildfang, she knew it couldn’t happen in any other place, with locals in the audience participating and cheering them on. Darcelle XV Showplace, the drag bar institution she created, lives on where she and others have performed for decades. The icon, also known as Walter Cole, was arguably the best known and loved drag queen in the region. Find out what he said here.RuPaul might be the country’s most famous drag queen, but in the Pacific Northwest, the LGTBQ+ community is still feeling the loss of Darcelle, who passed away earlier this year. Released last week, the final Beatles track was met with a major seal of approval by former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher. WATCH: The Beatles Short Film – “Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song” The general reaction to the iconic Fab Four’s final track, ‘Now And Then’ surely underpins their legacy in pop culture. “How many streams did we do last year? One billion? Three billion? It blows me away… The beat’s still going on, you know?”. Ringo Starr also stated that he is shocked by how popular the Beatles are in the present day. “When we started, we thought that, maybe, we’d have ten years”, revealed McCartney, who called a decade “the maximum span for a rock’n’roll group” at the time. Reflecting on the early days of the Beatles, Paul McCartney felt that the band would be lucky to last a decade in the music industry. But, you know, that didn’t stop us playing with each other”. “Paul was going to write, I was going to open a hairdresser’s, George would get a garage. “None of us thought it would last a week!”, he claimed.
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