At Texas’s legendary Rose Room, the party hasn’t stopped for almost 40 years.
Standing in the back parking lot of Station 4, a sprawling LGBTQ dance club in Dallas, I realize this is the first time I’ve been here while the sun is still out, despite countless visits starting in my late teens. At 8:45 p.m.
By the sheer virtue of its existence, the Rose Room has become an unwitting battleground in the broader culture wars playing out around the country. Drag performances, here and, have been targeted by lawmakers in Texas and beyond. It’s never been uncommon to see religious groups praying for the souls of all us sinning queers inside the clubs on a typical Friday night.
Now that we’ve dispensed with “the political shit,” as Cassie Nova calls it, the mood brightens and the gossip begins to flow. I ask her how much things have changed since she first started performing in 1993. The most notable change, of course, is the meteoric rise of, the series that took drag out of the clubs and into the mainstream when it premiered in 2009.
As those lemon drops start to kick in, Kylie Minogue’s new single plays over the speakers as the rest of the evening’s performers — Kelexis Davenport, Krystal Summers, Layla Larue, and Sasha Andrews, all members of the Rose Room’s permanent cast — arrive and start curling wigs and applying lashes. Krystal Summers is sipping a glass of J.
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