The other night, as I entered San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre for a performance of
Billy Elliot the Musical, I couldn't help noticing an impressively tall drag queen in sparkling rhinestone-coated platform heels who was dressed as the late Amy Winehouse. Tastefully gowned, flawlessly composed, and accompanied by two handsome gay men, she made me stop and think about how our standards of beauty have changed since the 1950s when, as a naive young Brooklyn boy, I kept casting ballots in the annual Miss Rheingold contest!
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