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Title: Drag Queen Dixie Longate is Wowing Audiences and Selling Tupperware
Post by: Shana A on May 08, 2012, 03:32:50 PM
Drag Queen Dixie Longate is Wowing Audiences and Selling Tupperware
BY Neal Broverman
May 07 2012 1:54 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/comedy/2012/05/07/drag-queen-dixie-longate-selling-tupperware-hand-over-manicured-fist (http://www.advocate.com/comedy/2012/05/07/drag-queen-dixie-longate-selling-tupperware-hand-over-manicured-fist)

A red-haired vixen is one of America's best sellers of Tupperware — those plastic containers prized by homemakers — and she's only a woman part of the time.

A red-haired vixen is one of America's best sellers of Tupperware — those plastic containers prized by homemakers — and she's only a woman part of the time.

Dixie Longate is a drag queen who's sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Tupperware through both parties and stage shows. Dixie came in number 1 at a recent Tupperware "jubilee" (or sales conference, in normal parlance), with $219,000 in sales.

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Drag artist is Tupperware queen

Dixie Longate's stage show doubles as a highly successful Tupperware party

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/shortcuts/2012/may/06/drag-artist-is-tupperware-queen (http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/shortcuts/2012/may/06/drag-artist-is-tupperware-queen)

There is more than one queen who adores Tupperware and is hoping for a great jubilee.

Drag artist Dixie Longate has been selling Tupperware for more than 10 years – most recently through a stage show that doubles as a party – apparently becoming one of the biggest sellers in the US.