![]() ![]() “After the finale, I had three days to chill. With all her drawly charm intact, she’s humble and seemingly unfazed by her launch to fame and its accompanying glories, like going to a private party with Madonna. and her RuPaul crown, the “Ebony Enchantress” remains very much a southern girl. She and her Avalon posse, which includes Drag Race’s season-12 runner-up Gigi Goode and Lizzo stylist Marko Monroe, were invited East for Pride, and the first big event was Madonna’s invite-only party at the Standard, High Line’s Boom Boom Room.ĭespite living in L.A. Then I’m like, Wait! It is!” The day before, she had taken a red-eye from Los Angeles, where she has lived the past couple years among the members of the House of Avalon, a queer art collective formed by fellow former Arkansans. “I keep looking around - it’s like everything is out of a movie. “My first time in the Big Apple: It feels amazing,” Symone, the 26-year-old winner of season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, tells me when we meet up at the Standard, High Line, for some Pride-weekend partying. The evening also included an original multimedia art installation, which was projected in Times Square and will be shown at The Standard, High Line for the remainder of Pride Month Madonna’s “Vogue” classic got an updated remix called “Vogue Ballroom Function,” and played before her entrance.Symone checks her look in her hotel room mirror. Because both of you gave me life and for that, I shall be forever grateful.” “Listen, when I came here there’s only two entities, two energy forces, that I need to thank, that I really need to thank: this fucking city, New York City, and the gay community. “Many people said don’t do it… you might. “I just wanna say also, that to not celebrate pride in a way that I am connected to people would have been a tragedy to me,” she said. Madonna also addressed the crowd with a heartfelt speech, where she talked about quarantine and why it was so important for her to party in person this year to celebrate LGBTQ pride. Three more original Polaroids shot by Madonna and Gomes are now part of a silent auction that will benefit the Hetrick Martin Inn. Another lucky fan in the crowd also got a selfie with the pop icon for $10,000. Each was individually framed and personally signed, and “Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto helped out with the auction, which raised over $100,000 for The Ali Forney Center and Haus of Us in a matter of minutes, according to a news release. The legendary singer, was dressed in a combo of her classic mesh fabric look (including a fairly see-through top), long pink fingerless gloves and icy blue air, stunning the entire room.īut what was even more stunning was how she auctioned off three new, original Polaroids shot by her and Ricardo Gomes at her home earlier this month, inspired by New York City art. New York City is roaring back to life after lockdown, and the latest evidence came Thursday night when Madonna herself popped up at a special LGBTQ Pride Month celebration at the Boom Boom Room at The Standard, High Line hotel.įollowing a full evening of music provided by Kaytranada, Honey Dijon, Misshapes and Eli Escobar, the Material Girl emerged at around 1:30 a.m., and sang two tunes: Hung Up and I Don’t Search I Find.
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