I can't really label this a 'Florida Man' story, can I?
It's creepy and funny all at the same time...
Drag queens aren't something new, although drag queens in grade schools is kinda fucked up, but we've talked about that enough.
No - drag queen shit is serious business in Key West where, every New Years Eve, instead of having a ball drop (and yes - I know there's a joke in there), they lower a drag queen in a giant red stilleto instead. It's a tradition that goes back decades, and that tradition is about to change forever.
After 25 years of “dropping” in a giant red high-heeled shoe on New Year’s Eve, elaborately dressed as legendary Key West drag queen “Sushi,” Gary Marion is hanging up the heel.
For a quarter of a century, Marion’s alter ego Sushi has starred in the Bourbon St. Pub complex’s New Year’s Eve festivities, a Florida Keys takeoff on New York City’s Times Square ball drop that’s dubbed the Red Shoe Drop.
Each December 31, wearing a lavish self-designed gown, Sushi perches in a super-sized replica of a woman’s red shoe high above Key West’s Duval Street, bantering with thousands of revelers below while entertainers perform on a streetside stage. Seconds before midnight, the red shoe-carrying Sushi is “dropped” from the complex’s second-story balcony, landing amid fanfare and applause as the clock strikes 12.
Since its inception, the Red Shoe Drop has become so famous that it’s often featured on national and international New Year’s Eve television programs. Even so, Marion has determined that this will be Sushi’s last year in the spotlight.
Plans call for the high-heeled happening to continue next New Year’s Eve with a different drag queen, who is likely to be chosen during June’s Key West Pride festival. But late Saturday night, as the final seconds of 2022 tick down to the dawn of 2023, Sushi is to “drop” in the red shoe one last time. “I don’t know exactly how I’m going to feel in the shoe at the moment, but I’m sure it’s going to be very emotional for me,” said Marion.
Who says I can't be topical when I want to...
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