“I moved around the South a lot as a kid. Then, in seventh grade in 1998, my family moved to the suburbs of Atlanta. I loved that a bunch of country folks were living in and around a city. I was never much of a foodie, so whenever my mom took me into town we just went to the Three Dollar Cafe. Now I visit about three times a year because my partner, my brother, and a lot of my friends live there. I love the drag scene! It’s growing so much. I think that’s because the film industry is booming in Atlanta, so there are a lot of transplants from Los Angeles and New York City. But this is not Southern pageant drag: These drag queens are doing live music and stand-up comedy. And there are a bunch of fun gay bars in Midtown—shout-out to Blake’s on the Park and Lips, which is a drag restaurant in

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