Valentina Instagram – 👑Long Live Valentina, Princess of Southeast L.A.👑
It was golden hour in late July, the planet’s hottest month ever on record; and at the heart of Boyle Heights’ storied Mariachi Plaza stood @allaboutvalentina, drag superstar and host of the new series, @dragracemexico.
Sporting a flipped bouffant hairstyle and a floral wiggle dress that harked back to the 1967 film, “Valley of the Dolls,” she’s not just immaculately preened for her inaugural @latimes photoshoot; she is miraculously impervious to the summer swelter. “Write it in the paper,” she told the Times, with nary a glisten on her sun-kissed skin. “‘She was modeling for her life. There was not one drop of sweat. She remained matte.’”
Valentina sat down with columnist @brujacore to discuss her illustrious television career, her Chicana pride and the freedom of being non-binary.
“I don’t want anybody to put a finger on what kind of artist I am, what kind of gender I am,” she says resolutely. “Right when you thought you could put your finger on me and define me and put me in a box… I jump out and go, ‘You don’t define me. I define me.’ And what I was yesterday, I might not be today. And tomorrow? I hope I give it sickening, darling.”
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👥: @jagofficial | Posted on 04/Aug/2023 20:32:02
