Does anybody drive for Uber or Lyft (or others) as a woman?  Or considering it?  I have been planning on it for quite some time now.  The biggest thing holding me up is NOT my chickening out of taking the leap (that's the second), but not having the right kind of cell phone.  The right type would be expensive.

Well anyway, so anyone doing this or considering it?  In the manner of Erika Simone of Los Angeles:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/drag-queen-uber-driver-erik-koral_us_56d47abbe4b03260bf778a9b
http://planettransgender.com/uber-lyft-driver-who-chauffeurs-in-drag/
https://www.out.com/popnography/2015/12/23/get-backseat-drag-queen-uber-driver-erika-simone

By the way, I rode around with her when in Los Angeles myself when seeing Dr John O'Dea.  THAT was interesting!

Now she is VERY showy and somewhat of a performer.  Her costuming and makeup COULD be considered drag queenish.
I will be doing it much lower key, however.  I procured a very professional looking skirt-suit from Macys which is all black except for the aqua blouse underneath the coat.  Makeup low key too, just enough to make me look younger and feminine.  I will simply be a professionally dressed woman driving for Uber.

I see a difference between trans and drag. Maybe it's my misunderstanding, but I would be offended if I was called a DQ.


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Hi Gertrude! 

Erika Simone does it in a flamboyant, showy style.

I, however, would do it low key, admitting I was trans only if someone ask me about it, due to my height or whatever.

I would simply be a professionally dressed woman providing rides for Uber and/or Lyft.  I would, however, like to inform the Orlando, FL LGBT community somehow, that they have a LGBT-friendly Uber/Lyft driver, as I have heard that many of them have been told to "Get out!" by Uber drivers.  I cannot see for the life of me why in the world any driver would do that.  I wouldn't care if the man from Mars wants a ride, as long as he has the app and the money.

(I am also considering wearing ao-dai for driving, since I have a slender body that fits into them well.  (I had to go to a Vietnamese tailor to have one custom made!  Try doing that.  (Vietnam has an ao-dai for men, but I kept insisting, "no, no, I want WOMEN'S style ao-dai!"  (They are MUCH prettier!)  I told them it was for a cosplay type of theatrical performance.)  An ao-dai certainly is beautiful and graceful, but, I don't know... they might be impractical when heaving somebody's heavy luggage into the trunk.  The front panel of the dress might get tangled in the luggage.  Florida makes it hard too by being such a hot, muggy, like an arm-pit of a state.  This state's weather is horrible.)

Quote from: Josephine8Alexandria on September 06, 2017, 11:24:00 PM
Hi Gertrude! 

Erika Simone does it in a flamboyant, showy style.

I, however, would do it low key, admitting I was trans only if someone ask me about it, due to my height or whatever.

I would simply be a professionally dressed woman providing rides for Uber and/or Lyft.  I would, however, like to inform the Orlando, FL LGBT community somehow, that they have a LGBT-friendly Uber/Lyft driver, as I have heard that many of them have been told to "Get out!" by Uber drivers.  I cannot see for the life of me why in the world any driver would do that.  I wouldn't care if the man from Mars wants a ride, as long as he has the app and the money.

(I am also considering wearing ao-dai for driving, since I have a slender body that fits into them well.  (I had to go to a Vietnamese tailor to have one custom made!  Try doing that.  (Vietnam has an ao-dai for men, but I kept insisting, "no, no, I want WOMEN'S style ao-dai!"  (They are MUCH prettier!)  I told them it was for a cosplay type of theatrical performance.)  An ao-dai certainly is beautiful and graceful, but, I don't know... they might be impractical when heaving somebody's heavy luggage into the trunk.  The front panel of the dress might get tangled in the luggage.  Florida makes it hard too by being such a hot, muggy, like an arm-pit of a state.  This state's weather is horrible.)

I had to look up what that is. I've seen them, just didn't know the name. For professional looking driver, I would think a black, navy or grey skirt suit would do the trick.


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