This was posted this evening as a comment, and made us go “hmmmm”;

One thing that I’ve been dwelling on since Divine’s win is… I wonder if Pride is aware that Divine Lee is transitioning to become a woman herself. This fact isn’t know by many but her closest friends and family, but how will Pride adapt to this year’s Ms. Gay R.I begin her path to live each day more as Ms. Straight R.I?

Anyone care to weigh in this? Its accuracy, implications, or otherwise? We may need a moment to dwell on this ourselves…

We didn’t even know we had a magazine!

As it happened, Parrys Hampton printed this out and used it as a prop during a performance at Gallery.

Fierce!

“I don’t think I’m crying, because that would mean I have feelings. Which I don’t.”

– Miss Kitty Litter, at the 2009 Triple Crown Pageant

If you have any masochistic tendencies, you may be interested in this.

Click the below links to catch some of the highlights from the Triple Crown Pageant last night. We got through about two minutes of the first video before the nausea set in — we’re just now understanding the importance of holding the pageant at a BAR. Just don’t blame us if they find you dead in front of the screen with some fucked up look on your face in the morning. Enjoy!

Ms. Gay Rhode Island 2009 Crowning
Gia Devaroux’s Britney Spears Performance
Miss Gay Rhode Island 2009 Evening Wear
Ms. Lesbian Rhode Island and Mr. Gay Rhode Island 2009 Crowning

As we’d been advertising on Bitchidence.com all week, the fabulous State Sunday night was billed as the “official” after-party of the Triple Crown Pageant. Was it the “official” after-party? As far as we’re concerned it was! — because everyone showed up!

Nobody even bar-hopped for like an hour or followed the winners around to the downtown bars (as the winners are contractually obligated to do on winning night) — everyone went directly to State, and we were all in a fabulous mood. Mostly because we were glad the pageant was over and we could get down to the very serious business of boozing it up. DJ AV8 provided beats, finally getting a handle on how to play at State (groovy, sexy, moody house — versus high-energy fun dance) and the crowd totally responded by packing the place until the end of the night. State has finally got a Sunday night together that was as fun as second floor Diesel Sunday nights from a few years ago.

Our entire tranny army showed up, including Ada who had spent the whole night wearing a scarf around her body. Then, as is her custom, Kitty Litter took over the mic at the end of the night and officially plugged State and Bitchidence.com (again!). Altogether the night was fantastic. Fun, a little freaky, scandalous and messy — thanks Providence (finally).

And congrats again to the winners. Now don’t fuck it up!

As is usually the case, the best parts of the Triple Crown Pageant last night were accidental — or purposefully unplanned, depending on your point of view. Towards the end of the night, and as part of a raffle benefiting AIDS Care Ocean State (if we remember correctly), a fabulously buzzing and chatty Kitty Litter took the stage to draw tickets and hand out prizes. The first prize went to Ty Wooley (who used to bartend at Fatty’s), who secretly did not have the winning ticket — to which Kitty muttered “just take it and get the fuck off the stage!”. Then Dark Lady co-owner, Buck, won a HUGE basket of lube bottles, one of which ended up in Jackie DiMera’s cleavage.

Then there’s the issue of Divine Lee‘s win. Certainly, it was deserved; she obviously loves performing and seemed to want it more than anyone else. She’s also more than qualified to do the job. It’s how she won that needs a closer look.

One of Divine Lee’s good friends is Mr. Gay Everything, Rocky Graziano. Rocky is also friends with one of the judges, fellow Bostonian Melissa Gellespie. So what though?, this is Rhode Island and everyone knows everyone else anyway. Hell, even we knew at at least half of the judges. However, we weren’t buzzing in Melissa’s ear all night “suggesting” who she vote for in each category; that was left to Rocky — who sure did smile big as he placed that crown on Divine’s head. This is not surprising, but it sure is telling.

What else is telling was the judge’s inability to see past Sarah Beyers‘ transgendered identity while running for Miss Lesbian. We don’t think that all of the judges were Bitchidence.com readers, so many of them wouldn’t have gotten the chance to read Sarah’s interview with us where she basically made her case for being Miss Lesbian. Everyone who read her side of the story instantly got it, and gained at least some sympathy for her situation and what she was up against. However, that’s what the interview portion of the pageant was for — the real-live interview where Sarah no doubt used her sharp man-voice to speak to the judges. We’re certain that they heard her speak, so probably weren’t able to listen without a certain degree of hesitation — whether they were aware of it or not. And as articulate and disarming as Sarah can be, she still lost the interview part of the competition.

UP NEXT: The after-party!

As in any competition, there are those who lose. Or, at best, they do not win.

Try as they might, someone else snatches that damn tiara despite all of the hard work and diligent preparation that went into an effort to win. And then sometimes they don’t try at all — as was the case with a few of the contestants at the Triple Crown Pageant last night. Take for example, the performance of one Mr. Gay RI contestant whose talent, apparently, was arranging furniture. With Will Smith’sMen In Black playing, the audience watched him unroll a rug onto the stage, then set up three stools — disappearing behind the curtain to retrieve them one at a time — then he strolled around them for three minutes with a red scarf until the song ended. You know, in hanky-language, a red scarf means he’s into fisting… What did we get out of this performance? One boy, three stools. One of the judges actually wrote down “WTF” while watching this. We began to be unsure just what to expect for the rest of the show…

Over the next couple of hours, we saw weak political statements, capes, sequins, and enough lip syncing to last a lifetime. Indeed, one of the only people who actually sang live was the winning Mr. Gay Rhode Island, Scotty2Hotty (exactly what kind of name is that? Besides a pro wrestler’s), which deserves recognition. The most entertaining moments though, took place in between the performances with Ms. Kitty Litter ordering drinks from the stage (and plugging Bitchidence.com!) and conducting sleazy banter with Miss Gay RI 2008 Jackie DiMera, who couldn’t seem to smack Kitty up any further beyond old-age jokes. It all got funnier as they (and we) drank though, naturally.

Another great moment came with Sarah Beyers‘s performance as Madonna with Parrys Hampton as Britney and Jenna St. James as Christina reenacting an MTV Video Music Awards show. They matched the original, iconic choreography step for step, and even seemed to triumph over the conceptual cluster-fuck of a man (Sarah) dressed up as a woman playing a woman (Madonna) dressed up as a man.

What a magical night last night! Can it be described any other way?

It seemed that the entire Providence area GLTBQ community turned up last night at Lupo’s to watch the crowning of Mr./Miss Gay/Ms. Lesbian 2009. It was a serious who’s who (and who’s doing who in where with what) that literally had our head spinning the whole night. Lupo’s looked ritzy and fabulous, everyone looked glamorous under more costume jewelry than you can shake a bottle of lube at (that came later), and it felt like — if just for a few minutes — that we all stopped being the drunken horny messes that we’ve become accustomed to, and took a step back for a look at how marvelous and proud we all are.

But enough about that.

Let’s get to the winners!

Miss Gay Rhode Island 2009: Divine Lee Sei

We thought she was just lovely throughout the entire show. Divine has Aunty Anita for a drag mother, and it showed in her make-up and costumes as she hula-danced around on stage in a grass skirt and full-on head dress. It wasn’t the sexiest thing we’ve ever seen, but it sure was different and totally new for Rhode Island; in other words, we loved it! If this is the kind of showy wackiness we’re going to see in the future from Miss Divine, we’re sold! And she doesn’t have a lisp!

Mr. Gay Rhode Island 2009: Scotty “2″ Hotty

All we can say is, well, he was the best candidate. Which unfortunately isn’t saying much. We’ve met Scott several times over the years, and never fail to be a little creeped out by the experience. Maybe it’s the crazy-eyes? Maybe it’s the fur coats he wears to the bars. Maybe it’s his name, which seems to take his new title down a notch (as if the Mr. Gay RI title had been in good condition when he won it), who really knows? We’re relieved to have someone like Scotty to have won, because we would have felt kind of bad making fun of Divine Lee.

Ms. Lesbian Rhode Island 2009: Sarah Howes

While we’re absolutely sick to our stomachs over Sarah Beyers not winning the title as a transgendered woman (we’ll get to that later), our new Miss Lesbian wasn’t the most inappropriate choice either. She started folk-singing with a guitar for christ’s sake, something that gays recognize to be exclusively lesbian activity. However, she was nice and sweet and has legs for days — so we’ll take her.

COMING UP: Enough of the winners, the real juice is in the losers! (excuse us, non-winners)

Just in from Triple Crown Pageant and State official after-party. So much to write about, it’s unreal. Messes. Scandal. Fabulousness and things that make you go “hmmmm”. This is going to be like a three-post series, we just can not.

But you’ll love it!

So tonight we’re going down to that Triple Crown Pageant to find out who’s going to be the new gay Rhode Island people for 2009. We’ve never seen this happen before, so we’re a bit curious to see how it all goes down. We’re picturing screwy, flaming version of a Miss America pageant. Will there be a swim suit competition?

Or, if you find all of that completely uninteresting and want to skip directly to the fun part, go down to State for the after-party!