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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Tue May 6, 2014, 05:56 PM May 2014

Anti-gay Republican candidate in North Carolina worked as a drag queen performer

What a drag.

An anti-gay Republican candidate in North Carolina worked as a drag queen performer and emcee known as 'Miss Mona Sinclair,' according to a bombshell report.

Steve Wiles, a conservative North Carolina state Senate candidate who has been outspoken in his support of the state's same-sex marriage ban, worked as a female impersonator and drag-show emcee earlier in his life, the Winston-Salem Journal reported over the weekend.

Wiles, 34, worked at a gay-friendly Winston-Salem lounge called Club Odyssey from 2002 to 2010, where he directed a weekly drag show, the club's former owner Randy Duggins told the Journal.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/anti-gay-north-carolina-republican-candidate-worked-drag-queen-gay-bar-report-article-1.1779271#ixzz30yWCnn62

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Anti-gay Republican candidate in North Carolina worked as a drag queen performer (Original Post) joeybee12 May 2014 OP
Oh, the irony. Louisiana1976 May 2014 #1
I love one of the comments...It's always the squeaky wheel joeybee12 May 2014 #3
NOT the Onion!!! nt msanthrope May 2014 #2
I know... joeybee12 May 2014 #5
Oh---they've tried.... msanthrope May 2014 #9
Hah! joeybee12 May 2014 #12
It is the toe-tapper, himself! nt msanthrope May 2014 #14
I think a fairly outdated way to refer to gay men was as being light in the feet... joeybee12 May 2014 #15
Is it Onion? randys1 May 2014 #7
No. nt msanthrope May 2014 #10
Rudy/Rudia Giuliani could not be reached for comment. KamaAina May 2014 #4
Hee-hee! joeybee12 May 2014 #6
You can't make up this crap malaise May 2014 #8
I know! joeybee12 May 2014 #11
Do you think he ran into malaise May 2014 #13
Did you read the comments? joeybee12 May 2014 #16
Bwaaaaaaaah hahahaha malaise May 2014 #17
Mona Sinclair Wiles also worked as a promoter for the 2011 Miss Gay America PumpkinAle May 2014 #18
Conduct unbecoming? joeybee12 May 2014 #19
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
15. I think a fairly outdated way to refer to gay men was as being light in the feet...
Tue May 6, 2014, 06:22 PM
May 2014

Sort of applies here with his tap-dancing lessons!

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
6. Hee-hee!
Tue May 6, 2014, 06:09 PM
May 2014

That dipshit is hawking some security system on television...must have lost all his money in his nasty divorce...good.

PumpkinAle

(1,210 posts)
18. Mona Sinclair Wiles also worked as a promoter for the 2011 Miss Gay America
Tue May 6, 2014, 07:27 PM
May 2014

.... pageant, but was dismissed for "conduct unbecoming to" the organization, according to the Journal.

Wiles, 34, was in his early 20s when he worked at the now-defunct nightclub, Club Odyssey, according to co-owner Randy Duggins and former employee Gray Tomlinson. “He is Mona Sinclair,” Duggins said, referring to Wiles’ female persona.

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