Happy Pride! Kicking-off celebrations this year is STARRY NIGHT at The 519 Centre‘s Green Space Festival brought to us by TD. A who’s-who in Drag came out to put on a seven-hour spectacle, highighted by RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 champion NYMPHIA WIND, who has the distinction of being the first ever winner in the Franchise of East Asian descent. The Drag star, L.A.-born Leo Tsao, hails proudly from Taiwan, where he moved to when he was six. The student of Fashion would go on to incorporate their technical know-how to prevail week after week in challenges on RuPaul’s Drag Race, wowing audiences and judges. Tsao after a long flight delay, might it right in time to Toronto meeting fans before a performance at Starry Night.
Other Drag Stars to appear were VENUS, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Canada Season Four. AURORA MATRIX, first runner-up RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Four, and also DENIM who tied for third that season. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Nine winner SASHA VELOUR also graced the stage, among many others.
A highlight reel:
More on Starry Night and The 519 Centre which the event benefits, here.
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