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The crowd let loose an almost feral sound-an emittance of pure giddy joy. As the song swelled to a climax with the triumphant final line of the bridge (“Gonna let the rain pour / I’ll be all you need and moooooore”), the queen unfurled her umbrella, releasing a blast of confetti that rained on her as she dropped into splits. Sarah and I didn’t speak we were transfixed by her choreography, the swishing of her hips, and the noise spilling out of the audience. She was clad in all black, lip-synching to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” while swinging one through the air. That night, as we entered the bar, we saw our first drag queen.
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Both of us are queer, but prior to that weekend, we had spent most of our time awkwardly fumbling around straight-dominated spaces in Ottawa, trying to figure out who we were and whom we liked.Īfter we arrived in Quebec, we learned that one of the city’s few gay bars, aptly named Le Drague, was located a few minutes’ walk from our Airbnb.
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It was in 2017, during a pivotal summer between the first and second years of university, when my friend Sarah and I-still navigating the transition between adolescence and adulthood-decided to take a trip to Quebec City. T he first time I went to a gay bar, I was eighteen years old.