MAY 29 ¿009
OREGON S GAY/LESBIAN/BI/TRANS NEWSMAGAZINE
Bebe Zanara
Benet sa/s her
newfound fame
is less about the
title of America s
Next Drag
Superstar than it
is the opportunit/
to be the voice
of a community
- from all drag
queens to all
the teens in
Africa who are
suffering from
HIV
Two Nights Only!
Sunday, June 21st &
Monday, June 22, 2009
Showtime 8:00pm
Da reelle XV Showplace
and honestly throughout the “almost non
stop” three-week shooting schedule: “Every
single character, whether you like them or
you do not like them, we were portrayed how
we are by nature. Obviously... everything has
to be brought down to like an hour, things
have to be edited, but they stayed true to
. each one of us.”
She is quite obviously a glass-half-full
kind of gal, even when it comes to the oc
casional behind-the-scenes drama that
marked the Races debut outing. “Regardless
of what happens, we will always be the first,”
she says. “We had a bond, and our person
alities will always [clash] here and there, but
regardless, that’s how life is, and you just
have to keep moving on and not really dwell
on those things.”
Benet appreciates the “one-on-one” in
teractions appearances like the upcoming
Portland date afford her. Her advice to con
testants is simple - despite its seeming con
tradiction: “Be true to yourself,” she shares,
“because what attracted us to be chosen as
the nine of the first season, we were not try
ing to be other people. It’s very important
because ... you can try to be faking some
body else, but it will show through.”
“People always want to stereotype,” she
continues, “[but] at the end of the day, we are
artists. When the night comes and the lights
go up and the curtains go, we become who
we are and how we were born, and people
just need to be able to just understand that.”
Benet, who draws inspiration for her craft
from “everything and everybody”and “what’s
happening at the moment,” envisions a day
without prejudice - for the drag community
and beyond. Ever the ambassador, she views
her success as a means to educate, inspire
and encourage others as they discover their
own pride.
“It’s • supposed to be a chain reaction,
that’s what I hope, that people find that con
nection and keep helping one another,” she
says. “Truly being able to change, I mean, the
focus has been made already, but we need to
get there.”
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Bebe appears
at RuPaul s Drag
Race Portland
Edition Thurs
June II 9 p m at
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW'Stark
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