

Next weekend Courtney Act returns to D.C. A little bit of latex and leather do not make a dominatrix.” When asked if she gave a dominatrix look, Jenek laughs, “I think calling Courtney a dominatrix is always going to be a stretch.

Since RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Los Angeles-based performer has been on a whirlwind world tour, most recently dressing up for a performance during Folsom in Berlin. I’m glad that I didn’t listen to anybody else and I listened to myself and what it was that I really wanted.”Įx-Gay Jeffrey McCall Comes Out as Scarlet McCall “People told me that I should stop, that if I wanted to be taken seriously as an actor, I should not be doing drag. Nothing happened with Jenek’s lesbian friend, but he had an “amazing night.” So amazing that he returned to Sydney, did drag the next night and “never was able to put it down.” And Jenek had plenty of people telling him to put it down. “But I think she forgot to carry the one.” “I think she thought that if I dress up in drag and look like a woman - since she was a lesbian - that there was some sort-of mathematical equation that would occur,” he explains, laughing. In fact, the gay Australian native had never done drag until after high school at age 18, when he wore it as a costume for a New Year’s Eve party in Melbourne - and only at the request of a friend. But Shane Jenek had no intention of making drag his career. He may be known to the world as Courtney Act, a runner-up on RuPaul’s Drag Raceearlier this year.
