Out in the Bay: Fauxnique pens 'Faux Queen: A Life in Drag'
Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe.
In a kiki of sorts with Out in the Bay, she shares live performance clips from her show "The F Word;" reads from her memoir, "Faux Queen: A Life in Drag;" and spills tea about where drag and feminism meet and about words that are "now Problematic with a capital P.
Or rather, a capital T." In "Faux Queen," which she calls "a collection of essays in drag as a memoir," Jenkinson invites readers into "the 'shack," the club she'd been invited to by gay men and that was central to the extraordinary, edgy San Francisco drag scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Trannyshack, the late-night performance club that ran weekly in San Francisco from 1996-2008 with an annual pageant and later happened occasionally here and in other cities, profoundly influenced drag globally.
