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Bingo, Food, Drag Queens, and Entertainment

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Bingo for Lunch – Served Up in Drag

Lots of merriment and good cheer takes to the stage as Drag Queen Bingo delivers bolus, after bolus of riveting entertainment.

Excellent Food, Bingo, and Entertainment

Looking for a good time, quick bite to eat, and lots of laughs?  Check out Hamburger Patties Restaurant on J Street once a month and join the Bingo Extravaganza.  You will meet the likes of ‘Do Me Moore” – enthusiastic and comical Drag Queen that is often your host.  Moore dons lovely dresses in animal print, costume jewelry that bedazzles, and make-up artistry that might just knock your socks off.   This is not just your local bingo hall blitz – this is Bingo extraordinaire!  Stop in, grab a booth and tell the waiter that you came for Burger n’ Bingo.  The place gets packed so come early and stay late. 

Do Me Moore is not the sole host at Bingo n’ Burger night each month – his colleagues include a lovely array Queens that are comical, exuberant, and flashy.  Lucky Bingo winners will be walked through the ‘gauntlet’ – they will dress in drag and be paraded through the restaurant. Moore and other hosts will make wise-cracks and cause a ruckus.  There is simply no better way to try something unique exciting – it’s not just ‘dinner and a movie’ – it’s interactive and it’s downright fun.

Drag Queen Bingo Helps Fund Local Non-Profit Animal Clinic

The best part of Drag Queen Bingo is the funds that are raised for a local non-profit animal clinic.  The Front Street Animal Clinic is one of the charitable contributions made by everyone who participates in this superb Bingo Night each month.  Hamburger Patties donates the location and other charitable contributions.  Do Me Moore and other energetic and enthusiastic hosts donate their time and effort as MC’s.  The many Bingo enthusiasts that have participated in any or all of the monthly gatherings have made an impact on the ability to raise annual funds of over £50,000. 

These funds are dispersed to several local non-profits, such as the Front Street Animal Clinic.  The non-profit organizations provide a wonderful service to the community.  Moore and co-hosts are hams for the camera – and for an additional $1 donation to the cause – they will be happy to oblige.  Come as you are, or come in the craziest costume and eyeglasses that you can lay your hands on!  Everyone is welcome at the Thursday Night Drag Queen Bingo Blitz.  Hamburger Patties Restaurant and ‘Do Me Moore’ extends an invitation to come one, come all! Eat, play Bingo, and be merry.

Eccentricity of Drag Queen Bingo

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Local Coffee House and Gift Shop hosts Drag Queen bingo every weekend.  Cross-Dressed comedians call-out bingo numbers, sexual innuendos, lascivious humor, and explicit language.  Not for the faint of heart, but most definitely an eccentric style of bingo.

Bingo Night at Five 15 – Media Mojo & More; it doesn’t get any better than this!  The Coffee House and Gift Shop in Royal Oak, Michigan presents the most exuberant form of bingo found in ‘these parts’.  A staff of Drag Queens MC or Host the bingo shows, calling out the bingo numbers, and cracking off-color jokes for adult, audiences only.  Five 15 Media Mojo & More currently offers one show every Friday night, with a second to be added next month and two shows on Saturday evenings.

Rainbows, Drag Queens and Bingo

Trixie Deluxxe sings a rendition of ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands’ by changing the lyrics to ‘if you know you’re straight clap your hands’ and ‘your Walmart clothes will show it’. The audience laughs, applauds, and Trixie moves on, calling-out G-6” from the small stage where this cross-dressed diva woos the crowd.

It’s all about the Drag Queens, according to Kaitlyn Shields, who came to bingo night at Five 15 for a bachelorette party and compared Drag Queens to Rainbows as they just make things better. A locally notorious event in Royal Oak, Michigan, co-owner of Five 15, Gary Baglio touts crowds of 250 avid bingo connoisseurs or more on weekends.  It is not just bingo, its bingo brought to you by racy Drag Queens like Trixie Deluxxe, Hershae Chocolatae, and Lauren Jacobs, otherwise known as The Queen of Mean.

Trixie Deluxxe, decked out in a wig, lots of make-up and lipstick, a low-cut bright colored dress, cleavage revealed and just a bit of back hair is calling out the bingo numbers during one recent show.  Everyone in the audience is fair game for jokes, punch lines about fashion, gay humor, sexual references and indecorous suggestions.  Lynn Barbara, recent bingo participant, was accompanied by several friends describes Trixie Deluxxe’s jesting by saying she says what everyone is thinking. Trixxie Deluxxe comes all the way from Orlando to host the show one weekend a month.

Five 15 sells tickets for the bingo game and Drag Queen show for $20.  The shows are typically sell-out crowds and are often sold-out weeks prior to the event.  Reservations with a credit card are required, a policy that even five star restaurants do not usually require.  So, how much is the jackpot?  Co-owner Baglio says is it so much more than just a bingo game. The ambience is unquestionably limited to 18 years and older, and undeniably a marvelous time and a change of pace from the conventional night out.

Come One, Come All to Drag Queen Bingo

One might ask “Who frequents these bingo Shows?”  Co-owner Baglio says first and foremost, those who are good sports about being the object of jokes.  It helps, anyway, since the crew of Drag Queens may be heard joking about a woman’s shoes, whether or not a bride-to-be is pregnant, who dies their roots and a multitude of other goads.

One recent sellout crowd included two bachelorette parties, around 20 massage therapy students and their guests, mothers with their husbands, gay folks, straight folks and ladies bent on heading into middle age with gusto and humor.  Mindi Hammond, 46, speaks of the Drag Queen Bingo favorably and said there is nothing like cross-dressing while playing bingo.  Trixie Deluxxe could be heard at a recent show declaring the real housewives of Macomb County have arrived.  Another small group at a recent event is demonstrative of the diversity in the crowd.  Accompanied by his wife and two other couples that they have known for years, Ken Kostrzewa, 67, describes this bingo affair as not anything like your mother’s bingo.

Introduced at Five 15 about three years ago, co-owner Gary Baglio says that Drag Queen Bingo is popular in other cities in the country, so they decided to ‘give it a go’.   Baglio initially marketed to the gay community assuming that would be the population most likely to enjoy Drag Queen Bingo.  Abundant crowds in that market lasted for about four to five months, at which time Baglio says there was a ‘lull’.  Word spread fast and more and more women began showing up for girl’s night out, bachelorette parties, birthday parties and other such get-togethers.  According to Baglio, women were the primary attendants of the event but now more husbands are attending the event with their wives. Prizes are not strictly monetary in this most fascinating bingo genre.  One might find themselves winning mugs, T-shirts, and other such novelties with naughty slogans and suggestive clichés.

Drag Queen Bingo in Sacramento

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Drag Queen Bingo is No Drag! Sacramento’s three-year running Drag Queen Bingo fundraising program has been popular since its 2009 debut for the WEAVE charity in Sacramento and has been going strong ever since.  

Drag Queen Bingo is an exciting and unique festival of fun. This rollicking contest is the brainchild of Fred Palmer, the publisher of Outward Magazine and Rich Borillo and David Mansch, the owners of Hamburger Patties.  The event is hosted by Drag Queens enthusiasts Felicity Diamonds, Rusty Nails, Drag Queen and Do Me Moore.  Hamburger Patties continues to serve as the hosts since the very first bingo fundraiser.

Supporting the Gay Community with Drag Queen Bingo

To date, the event has raised an impressive $49,153 for non-profit organizations and charities. These include many organizations including:

  • The Sacramento Ballet
  • The Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center
  • The Sierra Forever Families Adoption Agency
  • NORCAL Alzheimer’s Association
  • HIV/AIDS cycling fundraiser
  • CARES
  • Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus
  • United Animals Nation and Sacramento Valley Veterans

More About Drag Queen Bingo Games

Drag Queen Bingo is both affordable and entertaining, at a mere $15 for 8 bingo games, and is also an excellent way to help raise money for non-profit organizations and charities. Guests can also feel free to order beverages or dinner from Hamburger Patties bar and menu at this 21 and over event.  Drag Queen Bingo is filled with rambunctious and fun customs.

For example, when the number O-69 comes up, players are encouraged to yell ‘shots, shots, shots’.  The restaurant accommodates them with a specialty themed $1 shot.  Another ritual is that the winner of each game is made to run through the aisles of the restaurants, wearing a blond wig, tiara and boa.  The losers of the bingo game are told to yell ‘pelt her all the way down and back’ as they eagerly throwing their losing cards at the winner.

Drag Queen Bingo Hosted by Three FUSE Celebrities

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Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Manaj, and Robyn dance, crack jokes, and call-out Bingo numbers for LGBT awarene

In an effort to raise awareness for the LGBT community at Drexel, FUSE (Foundation of Undergraduates for Sexual Equality), along with the Office of Multicultural Programs hosted an evening of Bingo, dance, and laughter on May 9.   The event was so much a success that the director of multi-cultural program, Kerry Hooks, said that she would like to see this event occur once a year or maybe more, perhaps for Valentine’s Day.  The evening included a dance-off between first round Bingo winners, puns and indecorous jokes, Bingo for all, and a lot of amusement.

Bingo Celebrity Hosts Stand Tall in High Heels

Three cross-dressed hosts, including freshman Ian Crumm as J-Lo, pre-junior Ajay Raghavan as Nicki Manaj, and freshman Kenny Wittwer as Robyn take the stage and MC Bingo, introduce the rules of Bingo, dance-offs, and entertain an eager audience.  Dressed to the hilt, in wigs, make-up, dresses, and three-inch heels, they stood tall in their stilettos, most of the time.  Each drag queen tripped once or twice, causing the audience to bellow with laughter. Wittwer, sociology major at Drexel, said that the FUSE members wanted to provide a fun way for people to do in commemoration of Pride Month which they celebrate in May due to finals and commencement.  They thought of Drag Queen Bingo, something extravagant that would spice things up and as it turns out, it was quite a success.

Jokes were plentiful throughout the evening as the drag queens would call out “O-65” and state as in “Oh, you’re 65?” or “B-9, that tumor is b-9!”.  They were able to keep the laughter flowing throughout the evening.  A dance-off was staged about halfway through the evening, as Bingo came to a halt and Robyn announced that they would play the song “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” as a tribute to Whitney Houston.  A few audience members even took the stage at that point.  The contestants for the dance contest included the first round Bingo winners vying for the prize – a Drexel folding chair.  One of the winners had actually come dressed in drag himself, and went by the name “Esperanza”.

The Evening Started with Laughter, and Ended with Laughter

Wittwer said that the Office of Multi-Cultural Programs has been working very hard all year to raise awareness or generate recognition and visibility for the LGBT community on campus.  By all accounts this event produced a success on that front.  Participants were able to play four or more Bingo games, watch the drag queens sing and dance onstage and were even encouraged to come up and dance with the trio.  A few audience members were even dragged, no pun intended, onstage to move to the beat.  Wittwer, a support for the LGBT community and FUSE member said that FUSE takes on a lot of responsibility and worked hard to make this event a success.

Wittwer says he had never dressed in drag before, but was hopeful that hosting this type of event would improve awareness, but also be fun.  Crumm commented about the heat from all of the lights and said ‘he was really hot’, and his feet hurt by then end of the night, but that he suffered through it to please the audience for a good cause.  Crumm said he had a lot of fun, as did Robyn.  The drag queens stayed onstage following the Bingo and Dancing, posing for pictures as the audience left the James E. Marks Intercultural Center.  Freshman communication major Chelsea Hahn said “This is good; this is hysterical.  It’s weird because I’m going to see Ian (J-Lo) tomorrow without a wig or dress.”