“Well… simply, we’re unemployed.” It’s a phrase that echoes down deserted streets and in empty venues throughout the country.
This time it’s being uttered by Nathan Powter, aka, Charisma Belle, who runs Sydney Drag Royalty, a booking agency for prestige drag queens. “Basically in a 24 hr period we kind of lost all of our bookings.
I was hoping we’d keep the smaller bookings, the hen’s parties and all that kind of stuff,” says Powter, describing the instant and complete effect of the COVID-19 shutdowns. “We were kind of hoping that at least with small groups that they might just move to a private function…but not even that’s happening.” In one fell swoop, the livelihoods of nine people were thrown into doubt – but adversity is mere grist for
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