Grove hotel/Ice Palace General Manager Sal Piro and the gals: 

Come on in and enjoy the party

 

THE 46TH ANNUAL MISS FIRE ISLAND CONTEST

SATURDAY SEPT 10^TH 2011 

GORGEOUS GLAM & GLITZ GALS GUSH & GLOW

IN THIS PERENNIAL FAVORITE

 

by Jeannie

 

 

More than eclipsing that  other Drag Queen, Hurricane Irene, just a few days earlier, close to 40 ‘gals’ gathered to compete for Miss Fire Island, Ms Fire Island and Entertainer of the Year along other titles, chosen by 6 judges: Gilbert Baker, Charity, Mike Fisher. Nikki Starr, Kenny Holcomb. Michael Plosky, Joyce Rogers. They judged on poise, presentation, costumes, originality and that indescribably “Wow” factor.

The rule: Grove drag queens, gloriously over the top, must be more Fire Island than Fashion city.

 

Yes, the gowns were beautiful as even some of the girls (there were some tattoos amidst their tulle and tassels) – the lavish care put into costume design, some which took almost a year to prepare and countless dollars, the hair, the make up the strutting and posturing – all there – which makes the perennial event spectacular But this year it was the entertainment that impressed most – and it was the dancers rather than the lip synchers. You can fake a voice but not a dance – wish I knew if these guys were actually Broadway hoofers - they certainly charmed this ex hoofer’s heart.

 

HAIL TO MISS FIRE ISLAND 2010

 

MISS FIRE ISLAND 2010 SABEL SCITIES

 

EMCEE ARIEL SINCLAIRE

Ariel Sinclair started the proceedings with her usual gross shocking numbers – you should see the faces of the straights (before they got so drunk shock values were desensitized) and one wonders where one get tapes with such lyrics to lip synch

 

THE AUDIENCE

This couple is somewhat shocked by her material which is, as always, unprintable

 

No one is safe – Jay from Babylon just volunteered to be humiliated

A Bachelor- ette party

You never know who you are sitting next to!

 

DAYWEAR (do not expect to see these on the street)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Double Exposure

 

Can I have that?

 

 

What’s in her purse?  A doggie?

A No frills look

 

Ah! Here are the frills!

 

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU

 

 

 

Ah! A dainty one!

Renee Flaming wow-ed’em!

There’s that couple again as she shakes it up

 

INTERMISSION

 

Aren’t they cute???

 

PHILOMENA TAKES OVER

 

There isn’t a party Philomena can’t spark up – told to “stretch” she let loose a buckshot barrage of jokes - if one didn’t hit, another will. Here are some:

Ariel signed a contract with Disney to stay away from them.

Why did the blond get so excited when she finished a puzzle in 6 months? Because it said on the box 3-4 years!

I live in the gay part of NYC. It’s called “NYC”.

 

 

Demi Tasse lovely Barbara

 

Is Julie’s top getting bigger, or the bottom getting thinner?

 

 

She’s got an itch down there

Priscilla Unborn (don’t ask)

Ever the pro, Philomena is trying to conceal her “what the hell is that?”

 

Maria - cleaning up after the animals

 

 

 

 

Oh! There she is outside by the pool! 

 

INTERMISSION

Not very ladylike:  tattoos amidst the tulle and tassels

 

2 are and 2 aren’t

 

Lucky Me!

 

 

Even luckier………

 

 

BACK TO WORK: THE JUDGES

 

Dennis – the tabulator

 

 

 

 

This is so boring

 

BACK TO WORK – EMCEE PORSCHE INTRODUCES MORE ENTERTAINERS

 

“The more you drink, the better time you’ll have”

Billy Little is Wanda Sykes?

 

 

 

This trio was so polished they could tap their way to Broadway! Sign’em up!

 

3-in-1 outfit – each with a song

Is this what they mean by re-cycling?

 

  NOW FOR MS. FIRE ISLAND

 

 

 

 

 

Porsche took a Long Island housewife and taught her a little “attitude”

 

MORE MS. Or is this MISS (keep drinking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE ONLOOKERS

 

Tony Bondi couldn’t enter “because I have my period”

 

I don’t know what that is but I like it

 

WAITING FOR THE RESULTS

Girl talk…….

 

Sisters Ms George & Charity go back a long time

Sisters share a laugh

 

More sisters

 

I work alone

 

Will it be Me?

 

 

 

 

And the WINNERS ARE: 

Miss Fire Island 2011 - Logan Hardcore

Entertainer of the Year 2011 - Brenda Dahling

Most Popular - Busted

Judges Award - Epiphany

Miss Ice Palace - Tiffany Jae

Miss Cherry Grove - Martina Skyy

Ms. Fire Island - Gusty Winds

Ms. Cherry Grove - Donna Piranha

Sponsor Awards - Mica, Bootsie LeFaris, Yuhua Hamasaki, Tina Burner, Devin Stone

 

A FINAL WALK

Last Year’s Miss Fire Island

Ms. Fire Island - Gusty Winds

 

Busted - Most Popular

 

 

Ms. Cherry Grove - Donna Piranha

 

Miss Ice Palace - Tiffany Jae

 

 

Entertainer of the Year 2011 - Brenda Dahling

 

 

 

 

Looks like Rene Zellwinger

Martina Skyy - Miss Cherry Grove 2011

 

 

Last Year’s Miss Fire Island takes her final walk and crowns the new

 

The Crowning is not easy

 

 

Miss Fire Island 2011 - Logan Hardcore

 

 

THE WINNERS RELAX

 

 

 

Final thought: It doesn’t matter where you get your appetite as long as you go home to eat

                                                         

………………………..next year!!!