I felt like all the hard work I had done there wasn't valid. When I saw those messages, I broke into tears.

I had my own little personal experiences, but nothing that I ever had receipts for. He had talked to me before about there being some racist behavior there that if I had seen, I would have been very upset about. On Friday afternoon, my manager Mitch Ferrino, who manages my drag career now, forwarded me messages from The Monster about my flyer that he had seen from bar manager Italo that he felt were extremely inappropriate. What led you to decide you'd no longer perform at The Monster? I want to get a sense of what happened, in your words, and to tell a larger story of how racism and microagression affects Black performers within queer nightlife circles, where we often believe safety or protection is assured, but sometimes we're proven wrong.