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Title: Tide turns: Miami Beach drag queens told they can continue Sunday brunches at Th
Post by: Shana A on February 24, 2010, 07:55:31 AM
Tide turns: Miami Beach drag queens told they can continue Sunday brunches at The Palace

BY STEVE ROTHAUS
MiamiHerald.com

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The audience at Tuesday's Miami Beach planning board meeting was better coiffed than usual.

Dressed to the nines, four drag queen performers -- backed by dozens of vocal gay Beach residents -- came to City Hall asking that they be allowed to continue entertaining at the Palace restaurant's weekly Sunday brunch.

The queens' brunch on Ocean Drive prompted a royal row recently when guests at the Palace's next-door-neighbor, The Tides South Beach hotel, complained about the noise.