“After the finale, I had three days to chill.
With all her drawly charm intact, she’s humble and seemingly unfazed by her launch to fame and its accompanying glories, like going to a private party with Madonna. and her RuPaul crown, the “Ebony Enchantress” remains very much a southern girl. She and her Avalon posse, which includes Drag Race’s season-12 runner-up Gigi Goode and Lizzo stylist Marko Monroe, were invited East for Pride, and the first big event was Madonna’s invite-only party at the Standard, High Line’s Boom Boom Room.ĭespite living in L.A. Then I’m like, Wait! It is!” The day before, she had taken a red-eye from Los Angeles, where she has lived the past couple years among the members of the House of Avalon, a queer art collective formed by fellow former Arkansans. “I keep looking around - it’s like everything is out of a movie. “My first time in the Big Apple: It feels amazing,” Symone, the 26-year-old winner of season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, tells me when we meet up at the Standard, High Line, for some Pride-weekend partying.
Symone checks her look in her hotel room mirror.
