![]() My gowns are beautiful, but my face will kill you. ![]() They expect me to have an artificial girl’s voice, so when they hear mine, they just don’t know what to do. Then I open my mouth and usually start with, “Ay, how you doin’?” or one of those New York hollers. ![]() I parade around in my cobalt blue makeup and beautiful Bob Mackie gown. Hen the curtain opens and I come onstage at Oscar’s Café & Bar in Palm Springs, California, the audience gasps. Below, Gypsy tells me about his long-standing career, celebrity encounters and what it’s like to live separately from his onstage persona. After a career in show business, he came out of retirement in his 50s to try on his first gown and now, at 86 years old, he still commands the stage with his unique brand of drag-meets-comedy and has no plans to stop anytime soon. Dancer and actor James “Gypsy” Haake is, according to his Twitter bio, the world’s oldest working drag queen.
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