“It’s taken drag over a border that it hasn’t been before, to an exciting new place of accessibility,” said Mr. Gripping a Taco Bell Drag Brunch-branded folding fan, she declared her first drag show “breathtaking.” Skyler Chmielewski, there to celebrate her 19th birthday, was transfixed. The sound of Taco Bell’s signature “ bong” punctuated a drinking game. In the 45-minute show, Kay Sedia sassed the crowd (mostly young, mostly white) and danced with her fellow performers: the drag king Tenderoni and the queens Miss Toto and Aunty Chan, who tore it up as a hard-pressed Taco Bell cashier in a lip-synced mash-up of “ She Works Hard for the Money” and “ 9 to 5.” On diners’ tables, a shimmering box held a burrito (sausage, bacon or veggie), a hash brown and Cinnabon Delights doughnut holes. at a Taco Bell Cantina down the block from Wrigley Field, wearing a frilly, skintight frock with the Taco Bell logo on the belly. That queen - a Mexican American performer called Kay Sedia (pronounced quesadilla) - was the M.C. And that wasn’t a microphone in the lead queen’s hand it was a Grande Toasted Breakfast Burrito.
CHICAGO - As drag brunch came to a close at a Mexican restaurant here last Sunday, the performers conga-lined their way through the crowd of about 40 party people who were just this side of tipsy on Brunch Punch.īut this was no standard drag brunch it was a Taco Bell Drag Brunch.
