“We’re here, we’re queer and that’s what makes us family,” she sings in elegy for This N That over music from “Beauty and the Beast”. A young man in a black skirt and cracked leather boots pounds the stage with appreciation. Covered in sparkle, Daphne gyrates and does the splits her diamante belt flies off, to the delight of her audience.
Essentially a long brick tunnel, the venue has a bar running down one side and disintegrating leather banquettes along the other. It is the last Friday night of This N That, a gay dive in Brooklyn, New York. DAPHNE SUMTIMEZ, a drag queen, dances so vigorously that it looks as if she might bring the low-slung ceiling down.
