Thursday, September 2, 2010
Paul Soileau and Christeene:
the new Shirley Q Liquor?
Posted by Gina at 9:12 AM
http://skipthemakeup.blogspot.com/2010/09/paul-soileau-and-christeene-new-shirley.htmlPaul Soileau is a white, gay, self-described performance artist whose main creative outlet is drag. A native of Louisiana, after a stint in the East Village in NYC, he was based out of New Orleans until left homeless by Hurricane Katrina and eventually settled in Austin, TX. His prior best known stage persona was called Rebecca Havemeyer, a white southern woman who looked like "a lady who lunched" but with pretensions to being more hip. A southern Dame Edna. As a drag persona, it was fairly subdued and not overly trashy. But recently, Soileau has performed using a new character called "Christeene Vale" who is what appears to be a crack-whore trans hooker of some kind of non-white ethnicity. It true that some of the earlier Christine videos didn't sound as "black," but in the most recent one "Fix My Di---" he clearly attempts to "sound black."
