Celebrate Black Pride with one of Denver's favorite drag queens.
Although she considers herself a Denver native after spending nearly two decades in the city, Misdemeanor is originally from El Paso. It was where she first started performing in drag."One of my friends back in El Paso was the manager of a local gay bar. He was having his birthday party, and one of the drag performers for his party dropped out. He knew I liked Janet Jackson, and asked if he could dress me up and I could go ahead and do some Janet numbers," recalls Misdemeanor.
With the help of her drag mother, Diamond Briseño, Misdemeanor continued to develop her drag, and won the Miss Gay El Paso pageant in 2002. She moved to Denver with a few friends in December 2003."I needed to get away from where I was at," she says."There was nothing wrong with where I was at, but I just had bigger ideas."Jeremiah Corder
Misdemeanor's unique name came from her love of rapper Missy"Misdemeanor" Elliott, as well as a warning sign at Circle K."I was hanging out with some cousins, and we were at Circle K. They went in to go get some beer — or actually, it was Mad Dog and Zimas, that was the thing. I was waiting in the car, and I read the sign that said, 'It is a Felony/Misdemeanor to shoplift from this store.' And I was like, 'Oh, wow! That's my name!" she says.
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