Our next queen is one busy bee...
Honey Davenport
from New York, New York
Hailing from the legendary Davenport drag dynasty, pageant queen Sir
Honey Davenport (boy name James Clark) has a lot to live up to as she prepares for her Drag Race debut (from what I could find, she’s the niece of Kennedy and Sahara. Don’t ask me how that’s supposed to work). In fact, connections to other Drag Race queens are a very important part of Honey’s backstory – she got her big break travelling the world as a back-up dancer for Peppermint, and she happens to be the drag mother of a certain Miss Monét X Change which, if nothing else, suggests that New York City isn’t as huge as it may appear. That being said, she’s something of a drag legend in her own right: she has her own band, sings live, is a DJ and has won both the Miss’d America Pageant and Miss Stonewall, so I’d imagine she has quite the crammed CV. This won’t even be the first time that West Philadelphia-born Honey has met RuPaul, as a misunderstanding at a book signing (in which Ru signed her shirt “to Honey” as opposed to “to the Hunties”) led to her drag name being birthed into existence.
The mug:
The looks:
The boy:
Here she is lip syncing to Stevie Nicks’ I Can’t Wait (werk Stevie! You better ****ing werk!):