a drag queen hired a twink to do her death drops. normalize it.

Photo: stage lights, for illustration. Vikebe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

via Sierra La Puerta on X and Queerty

Every drag queen has a number where the knees file a formal complaint. Sierra La Puerta solved it the way Hollywood does.

The New York queen posted a 40-second clip to X on Tuesday, Nov. 10, captioned "Normalize twink stunt doubles!!!!" She starts the number herself. A cannon of stage fog goes off, and out of it comes a slimmer performer in black, hair flying, doing the floor work. By Thursday morning the post had more than 43,000 likes.

Queerty reports the routine was La Puerta's entry in the grand finale of Pantheon Season 5 at ICON, a queer bar in Astoria, Queens, and that she tagged fellow performer Spice Diamond as the double. She did not take the crown; Queerty says Tiffany Piffany did. La Puerta told the site the idea was "a mix between Roses's dance routine and Silky Nutmeg Ganache on Canada's Drag Race."

She lost the pageant and won the internet, which in drag is roughly the better trade. Every queen in the city is now pricing out a twink.