With apologies to Her Majesty, here we present a chicken salad fashioned after one that was created for Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation luncheon. Its curry flavors remain a favorite throughout England today. Drag Queens are perhaps the most misunderstood entertainers, Learn a little about these fierce creatures after the recipe.
Here is an easier take-off made with common pantry items that will liven up any summer time get together. Not your grandmothers bland spread. A spicy chicken salad with the cool tastes of melon and dried cranberries. Serve as a sandwich, on lettuce, or in a wrap to carry with you.
Ingredients:
2 cans cooked chicken chopped
1 cup cantaloupe melon
1 stalk celery, chopped
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup mayonnaise
½ teaspoon dry mustard powder.
½ teaspoon Old Bay powder
2 TBS sweat and sour sauce
Directions:
Do your cutting. Cut the celery into fine little pieces. Cut the melon into ½ inch cubes.
In a bowl, add mayonnaise and sweet and sour sauce. Mix well. Add the ½ tsp of Old Bay and dry mustard. Again mix well. Taste test. You might want a touch of cayenne pepper if you like it really spicy, but TASTE FIRST! REMEMBER you can add but not take away.
In a large bowl add the caned chicken (this is even better if you start with a piece of chicken breast cooked in the oven and cooled, but who has time?)
Stir in the celery and the dried cranberries. Now add the dressing mix and make sure everything is coated well. Cover and refrigerate for about 2 hours to blend flavors.
This makes wonderful sandwiches, or serve on a piece of lettuce for a luncheon, or wrap up in a tortilla to carry with you.
For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx227986hc8
So happy to serve this for my Master Indy
socialslave
To satisfy and restore.
To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I cook!
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Drag Queens
A drag queen is a person, who uses clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate famine gender traits and looks for entertainment purposes. Historically, most drag queens have been men dressing as women. Drag shows frequently include lip-syncing, live singing, and dancing. They occur at events like gay pride parades and drag pageants and in venues such as cabarets and nightclubs. Drag queens vary by type and culture. What is most common is portraying over the top and exaggerated femininity.
Drag Queens are different from the way actors had to portray woman's roles back when real women were forbidden to appear onstage. Whereas most cross-dressers or transvestites do not want to draw attention to themselves, a drag queen demands attention. In Eastern cultures many drag queens present more of a Kabuki affectation. Note the film “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”.
Another term for a drag queen is female impersonator. Female impersonation has been and continues to be illegal in some places. American drag queen RuPaul once said, "I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?" He also said, "I don't dress like a woman; I dress like a drag queen!"
RuPaul
The first person to describe himself as "the queen of drag" was William Dorsey Swann from Washington DC. In the 1880s Swann started hosting “drag balls” attended by other men who were former slaves, and often raided by the police, as documented in the newspapers. In 1896, Swann was convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail on the false charge of "keeping a disorderly house" (euphemism for running a brothel) and demanded a pardon from the president for holding a drag ball (the demand was denied).
When vaudeville become popular, it allowed female impersonators to become popular as well. Many female impersonators started with low comedy in vaudeville and worked their way up to perform as the prima donna. They were known to perform song and dance routines with multiple outfit changes. In New York City, famous female impersonator Julian Eltinge found success, and he eventually made his way to the Broadway stage performing as a woman. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Bothwell Browne was the top female impersonator of the West Coast. He performed at the Grand Opera House and Central Theater, among other venues, went on tour with United Vaudeville, and later appeared in the film Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919), produced by Mack Sennett.
In the early to mid-1900s, female impersonation had become tied in the public mind to the LGBT community and thus criminality, so it had to change forms and locations. It moved from being popular mainstream entertainment to something done only at night in disreputable areas. Here female impersonation started to evolve into what we today know as drag and drag queens. People went to these nightclubs to play with the boundaries of gender and sexuality and it became a place for the LBGT community, especially gay men, to feel accepted. As LGBT culture has slowly become more accepted in American society, drag has also become more, though not totally, acceptable in today's society.
Drag Queens have always been in the fore front of LGBT rights.
The Cooper Donuts Riot was a 1959 incident in Los Angeles in which drag queens, lesbians, transgender women, and gay men rioted; it was one of the first LGBT uprisings in the United States.
The Compton's Cafeteria riot, which involved drag queens and others, occurred in San Francisco in 1966.
Drag queens were also involved in the Stonewall riots, against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn. The riots are widely considered to be the catalyst for the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
When AIDS hit the community it was the drag queens who first raised money for support of the patients.
In December 2015, Radar Productions and Michelle Tea developed the concept of Drag Queen Story Hour. Launched at the San Francisco Public Library, Drag Queen Story Hour was adopted by the Brooklyn Public Library in the summer of 2016, and has since traveled to various libraries, museums, bookstores, and recreation centers, and parks across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Such events sometimes prompt opposition against the libraries and organizers.
The process of getting into drag or into character can take hours. A drag queen may aim for a certain style, celebrity impression, or message with their look. Hair, make-up, and costumes are the most important essentials for drag queens. Drag queens go for a more exaggerated look with a lot more makeup than a typical woman would wear.
Many parts of the drag show, and of the drag queens' other intellectual properties, cannot be protected by intellectual property law. To substitute the lack of legal protection, drag queens revert to social norms in order to protect their intellectual property.
Drag Queens tend to be performers who dress and perform in an exaggerated female persona. While appearing female, most of these performers don’t want to actually be female; they don’t even try to fool you into thinking they’re biologically female.
As a drag queen they’re able to perform their act, show their skills and be their true self.
Drag King
Drag King
is the term used
to define a drag performer who dresses in an exaggeratedly male
persona.
Often the costume and personality of the performer will
be a lot larger than the look and feel of an everyday man.
While performing as a drag king is as legitimate as a drag queen, it hasn’t enjoyed the fame and accolade provided to drag queens.
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