Happy Pride Month, kids!
While a perverted number of Bible-beating Oklahomans still vilify the LGBTQ+ community, the brilliant thing about queer culture is the way it answers that hateful barrage: true comedic scorn, hard-hitting observations and hilarious one-liners that make pearl-clutching hate-mongers soil their britches and then some.
The best place to find that joyful resistance—high-profile, low-brow and blessedly profane—is The Boom, 2218 NW 39th St., and its Sunday Gospel Drag Brunch. There, church culture meets fabulous style and bawdy humor against a brunch backdrop of butter-swimming biscuits, sausage gravy and sweet rolls of redemption.
My wife and I acquired $12 tickets for the Sunday performance and arrived around 11:30 a.m. for the 12 noon show. After being promptly checked in, we were seated at the wrap-around bar, with most of the tables already taken by large groups. Though somewhat dark, especially coming in from the mid-day sunshine, the place was already electric!
As my wife talked with the girls sitting next to us, I scanned the special menu, contemplating what I wanted to order. I started with my beverage, some near-gourmet coffee ($3.00) and, quickly, it was attached to my lips.