![]() I have been calling it out since I came in: There’s nobody, literally nobody in the local scene, doing what we’re doing between the four of us, who have all these skills under one roof. Senerio: The Cake Night show really took it to that next level. So we just kept going and now we’re here. When we first started, we just wanted to create a platform to highlight drag kings and drag things and alternative types of performers. I remember sliding in Muscles’ DMs being like, ‘Do you wanna do this?’ And Sweaty Eddie is my partner, and Senerio came in and was part of our second show, The Dude Network, and we just all clicked and it made sense. Richard: Initially, yeah, we were all individual performers, and the lack of drag kings in the scene made us want to start something like this. Were you all performing individually before becoming the Cake Boys? It allowed us to be a bit more expansive than something we would have done for an in-person show. Our first show during quarantine was Cake Night Show, and it incorporated some specific moments that were filmed for the show as well as individual people from our network sending in digital pieces. It also allowed people to be a part of what we were doing whether watching from afar or participating from afar, and we curated it into this cohesive experience. Having time to work on things remotely forced us to work collaboratively in a way that really utilized what everyone’s capabilities are. When I individually started doing drag, I was interacting with video and things like that, but that’s hard to sustain from venue to venue. Sweaty Eddie: I’ve always been interested in combining multimedia forms with live performance. The pandemic allowed us to grow into what we’ve become now, unfortunately, but fortunately. Sweaty is a phenomenal animator, Senerio is a phenomenal musician, Richard is a phenomenal graphic designer-and I’m a good help with all of that, I guess. We all come in with amazing talents that go beyond the drag stage. The unfortunate silver lining to the pandemic is that we were able to expand on that. We started with the intent of having drag shows that were a little bit larger than life and went beyond your normal Thursday night at a gay bar. Muscles Monty: January 2020 was our first show, so that gave us a lot of amazing leeway before the pandemic started. ![]() Thrillist: How long have you been performing as a group under pandemic conditions? What’s that been like? We caught up with the group recently for a giggle-filled chat about pandemic silver linings, the challenges of performing alternative drag, and the chaotic way they got their name. ![]() A staple of the NYC scene for years, the drag king collective includes Muscles Monty, Senerio, Richard, and Sweaty Eddie and their work incorporates music, stop-motion animation, and all manners of visual and performance art. To call what The Cake Boys do “drag” would be a gross oversimplification.
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