Careers Unusual: The Drag Queen Entrepreneur

Edwin Sumun

23-May-14 13:46

Careers Unusual: The Drag Queen Entrepreneur

There are drag queens and then there are those who create drag queen personas as part of their enterprise. Edwin Sumun is no stranger to BFM, and his characters, Shelah and Kay Elle have cult followings in our city and beyond, but listen to his story and you'll see that there's an artist and an entrepreneur's genius at work behind the latex and fake eyelashes.

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