With summer slipping away, August can be kind of a drag. But the dog days will be drag days (in a good way!) starting Thursday, August 7, when the Colorado Drag Royale busts out the boas for the first show of its fourth season. Denver has no shortage of fabulous drag faces and the Royale — which racked up more than 45,000 viewers during Season 3 — is back with bells on, adding to the excitement with a live-audience drag competition-cum-reality-show that kicks off at Tracks nightclub.
The competition is the bedazzled brainchild of executive producer Minerva Qween. Qween has been performing drag since the age of thirteen, after catching an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race . "My energy and aesthetic is a little different," Qween says. "I am what we would call a quote unquote alternativ