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Hello all you beautiful people! Can you believe it is week three of RuPaul's Drag Race already? So much is happening — let's get right into my conversation with Mystique Summers Madison, the Texas beauty who went out with a bang!
I was impressed how well Mystique did in the third episode's opening challenge, when she just dove right in and swallowed down all those mystery foods she had to eat. "I was like, ‘Oh no, it's fried food,’" Mystique remembered. "I hadn't had fried food in four months. Oh my God, I just went for it. I was just swallowing, I wasn't tasting." Even though she looked like a cool cucumber, Mystique was nervous. "It was the scariest thing ever," she revealed. "That was drag Fear Factor!"
That win made Mystique one of the group leaders for the Disco "Extra Greasy" shortening TV commercial exercise, and I wanted to know what her strategy was for picking which girls would be on Team Mystique. "Pandora did work editing TV commercials, and Jessica is a dancer," Mystique explained. "Everybody else had pretty makeup and were people I got along with."
As we enter a new decade, both the military and civilian sectors are major battlegrounds for LGBT civil rights in the USA. And although blatant, overt real estate discrimination may be illegal in many jurisdictions, silent bias is still widespread. But if gays and lesbians are buying homes and helping to build communities, they deserve a lot more than the kind of formal acceptance that has to be enforced by threat of lawsuits. Realtors and mortgage lenders should be eagerly competing for their business and proactively earning it.
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To ensure that you get the professional level of service and support you are entitled to as a LGBT buyer or seller, follow these tips:
Kimberly Davis knows how to sing. She has performed behind superstar artists Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Rob Thomas and Mary Wilson. Now Kimberly’s stepping up from behind the mic and taking center stage. She releases her first dance single this month, and it’s sure to make clubbers ‘Get Up’.
Are you always the first to jump on the dance floor? If the DJ is playing my song, I am!
How did start your career? I toured with the 90s pop group, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. I was so young and man, it was a lot of fun! I loved recording and learning how to use my voice in the studio which is why today, recording is never a task. I'm quite quick at it, actually.
You graduated Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts – the school that inspired the movie, Fame. I remember my mom taking me to see that movie and I said to her "that’s the school I wanna go to!" Music has always been in me. I was singing TV commercials and every song on the radio since as long as I can remember.
