RuPaul thanks her fairy godmother! The NYC Pride fiasco!
RuPaul came up to us at the New Music Seminar in New York and informed us that he was going to be world famous. I let out a giggle—since Ru’s energy was infectious—yet inwardly rolled my eyes because people said that kind of thing to me all the time and I knew that fame wasn’t quite as easy to attain as it seemed to the uninitiated.
It was much simpler to run around crowing “I’m going to be huge” than to actually accomplish it—and as a NYC columnist, I heard that phrase constantly from up-and-coming entertainers filled with the bravado of a young Fanny Brice.But party thrower extraordinaire Susanne Bartsch apparently knew the score better than I did.
Bartsch—the Swiss miss who has led a conga line of diverse partiers for decades—has a book coming out at the end of May called Bartschland, Tales of New York City Nightlife.
Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.A post shared by World of Wonder (@worldofwonder)In the foreword, RuPaul writes about Bartsch, “We first met when I was hired as a go-go dancer at her Tuesday night party called Savage.
