and equities and curtains
now you must be wondering what is this
good decent curtains no it’s not
swearing words it means sons and
daughters in Malayalam
I am Miami my the drag queen how many of
you know who is a drag queen does
anybody know I can see one hand they’re
a couple of hands they’re they’re okay
I’m not alone so a drag queen is is
usually a male who dresses up as the
opposite sex and does feminine roles
feminine gender roles and use it with a
lot of feminity and these are my
inspiration and these are the ones who
are actually going around the world and
performing now in India we have like
Atta girl I am and of course Indian
theatre where we do drag for so long now
before I did drag I loved to perform in
theatre and I loved the singing karaoke
bars but you know I was not getting that
adrenaline rush that I was longing for
that’s when I shut myself up I started
watching all movies different kinds of
movies which I can gain inspiration out
of and that’s when I saw a beautiful
movie known as mrs. Doubtfire where
Robin Williams acted in drag I was like
if Robin Williams can do drag then I can
do drag too so that’s when I came across
different other drag queens Dame Edna
RuPaul RuPaul’s Drag Race and I came
across my drag mother LaHood baddest on
now
drag is a pure performance art and I
have been facing all these years of my
life that drag is either crossdresser or
is either transgender drag is not
be mixed with sexuality I love being Who
I am I’m not caught in the wrong body
and I love to perform as a woman onstage
simple now coming back to my family we
all know that we live in a country where
doing something like this is not
accepted so it was difficult for my
family as well
my mother said sexuality go to hell with
sexuality I don’t care about sexuality
but you should not do drag my dad was
like a child is a sin but drag is okay
if you get money out of it so what I did
was I give them time and space I told
them let them you know figure out what
they’re what they want and what they
think about me but we realized that we
were hurting each other we were actually
like you know space and time was hurting
each other so they moved to Bangalore
now in Bangalore they haven’t seen me
perform live as Miami I don’t know the
reason and maybe I might know the reason
after they see see me in the stock and
they’ll come and see me perform life
soon now coming back to my my first
performance in drag as you see I wore my
mother sari and blouse and I got on the
stage because I was longing to perform
in drag and I like put mullah poo that
is Justin sours and I put I put one
cheap wig actually and I went onstage
and I sang a my alum song no less up a
girl and danced to karate now after this
performance I felt really good I felt
like the adrenaline rush that I was
longing for however there was criticism
that I was placing people started
calling me you look like a hitter your
makeup is not that great you have a
cheap wig and what is that sorry so I
took it as a challenge
a bold challenge to show them that you
know what I can
redo myself that’s when I tied up my bad
wig into a buck click tide a jasmine
flowers and put a customer sorry
a graceful cassava sari with tricolor
border and I went to perform on stage
now you see a redefined Miami now
they’re big different funny incidences
in my life and I want to share something
with you so there was a straight man who
came across my pictures and Instagram
and he was like in all with my pictures
and he was like you looking so beautiful
as a girl and I would like to sleep with
you I’m like it has if it’s going to
happen so what I did was I was like if
you want to sleep with me
sleep with me as a guy then he is a no
no I can’t sleep with you as a guy so I
said sweetie the door is that way you
can go there now the next incident that
I want to talk about was when I was
chatting on an online app and that is
when a guy today I’ve seen you somewhere
and I was like maybe after the
performance that you’ve seen me and he
was a guy I saw you you were that guy
wearing sari and dancing on stage I said
yes that was me he was like I don’t
approve of this I said bye because I am
a straight acting gay man hurry yeah
yeah a straight acting gay man I said
sweetheart you are so confused about
your sexuality please all the best with
your life now this incident actually hit
me the most and this happened last year
was when I saw a picture of a drag queen
floating in lot of these square groups
closed queer groups in Facebook where it
was written would you date a guy who
does drag and I was like okay would you
date a guy who does Drive and on the
caption it was written I would if he
doesn’t hurt me I like what will I do
will I take my six
Sheils and he too will I take my fake
nails and claw you out so I was like
enough is enough I’m going to sing a
song about it and I’m going to sing the
song to you come on come on to the radio
on it’s Friday night and I won’t be long
gonna do my hair put my makeup on it’s
Friday night and I won’t be long till I
hit the dance floor hit the dance floor
I got all I need
well I ain’t no macho I ain’t no macho
but I’m a fierce drag queen baby I don’t
need your hate to have fun tonight I
love drag queens baby I don’t need your
head to have fun tonight I love drag
queens I don’t need no hatred as long as
I can feel the love
I don’t need no hatred as long as I keep
dancing so thank you thank you so much
uh you know I wouldn’t be here if it
weren’t for my community and that is the
LGBT community and women all around the
country because you know there are a lot
of people out there who’s ready to
preach hate throw hate at you but I take
it as like you know it’s all patriotic
thrown at me so I take it with
a pinch of salt because I believe in
love I am the queen of love so I only
spread and take love and that’s what I
believe in now I’m pretty sure you all
know love is not easy give and take love
isn’t that easy
so I would like to sing another song
about it
love’s never easy take it from a girl
who knows love comes as quickly as it
goes love’s never easy always in moments
of despair and we goes get more than our
share all the women want to like is to
find a man who’s kind and true we seen
like through man’s eyes so we know what
Oh loves never easy ah this this song is
really really close to my heart because
obviously it’s from Thailand it’s from
Bombay Dreams another but it touched my
soul always so now has a performance
artist or has a drag performance artist
I always kept gold gold for myself on my
first year of as a drag queen I said you
know what I need to do a photo shoot and
I want to even take part in Oh in the
theatre play or you know so that’s when
I got the opportunity to be featured in
a photoshoot known as you–as Karnataka
at maximal above in’ in bangalore and i
was part of a famous theater ensemble
known as the wedding party done by
catholic’ ahmad at famous ranga Shankara
now in the second year of me performing
as drag queen I said I want to perform
so much that Bangalore needs to know
about me and also I want to reach out to
schools and colleges because I believe
that is where the change has to start
that is where people will get to know
about my art form and that’s why I
perform five times in two months for
Bangalore pride and I actually reached
out to students I perform for school
students at a school known as Pune then
I gave a talk on sensitization of media
for the LGBT community at muliple
University and I conducted a gender
sensitisation workshop for under 25
students because the change has to start
somewhere and with all of this you know
I’m lucky and I’m so grateful that I got
featured in places like a Geo life
BuzzFeed news minute hidden pockets
Hindu of eBay and bagged Lumira
better India now after seeing all of
this
I knew that my journey is never going to
end and it’s only started so my future
ambition is that with this that the
whole nation knows about Miami and I
start a talk show known as Chaya with
Maya with the focus on being on with the
LGBT community and also hopefully next
year that I go international and I
perform internationally drag is an art
form like any other performance art form
all you need to do is accept it the way
it is there are many people out there
just like me who is ready to perform for
you my other dream that I want to see is
that I get to see my parents someday
sitting there and watching me perform
because that’s something really close to
my heart and I hope it happens soon
these are my drag daughters cash tally
cash tally on your right side and that’s
Rumi heart and there are my inspiration
RuPaul and Dame Edna now I like I said
before I believe in love and love only
exists I’ve got questions such as when
are you planning to do sex reassignment
surgery or do you feel like you are in a
woman but all these questions for me
doesn’t hurt me or doesn’t affect me
because whatever hate is just thrown at
me is just like water off a duck’s back
because I truly love myself now has the
famous US drag queen said RuPaul said if
you can’t love yourself how are you
going to love somebody else
now before I end this talk I would like
to do this last song for you it’s called
less bobby girl how many of you know
who’s Bobby girl who’s it done by see
those girls know what happened like you
guys don’t know byaku I don’t you know
yeah yeah so I’m going to sing the song
girl
are we go I’m a Barbie girl in the
Barbie van life in plastic it’s
fantastic you can brush my hair undress
me everywhere imagination life is your
creation come on Barbie let’s go party
ah-ah-ah-yeah come on barbie let’s go
party I you I hear you come come Barbie
let’s go party ah-ah-ah-yeah come on
barbie let’s go party aiyoo aiyoo thank you so much thank you