The “First Incarnation in Drag” Colby was gifted this leather piece from one of her sons, the fashion designer August Getty previously, it was hanging in his personal closet. I sometimes had to do two or three different cities, different states even, in one weekend.” “Being able to represent what I felt I loved about Miss Continental was really important. Winning Miss Continental gave Colby a sense of responsibility that comes with the platform of the title. Everyone thinks that the competition is the real hard part, but it’s actually doing the job after.” When you win any big pageant, it is a job you’re taking, which is why I always think about it when I wanted to do Drag Race. It’s so nice to see you.’”Ĭrowning Glory Colby triumphed in the 2012 Miss Continental pageant, which garnered her this crown. I was really awkward before I transitioned, but as soon as I started presenting how I actually felt on the inside, a lot of people were like, ‘You just seem so much happier now…. We all walked around Waikiki and I just felt like…‘I’m a girl.’ It was so empowering. My best friend, Lindsay, who’s still my best friend to this day, fully let me be in drag. A bunch of my friends rented a hotel in Waikiki. “I was around 17 and dressing up for Halloween. “My first gender-affirming, ‘Oh, I’m trans and this is how I’m going to present myself,’ was in high school,” Colby says. Her teenage years also marked a major turning point in her sartorial self-discovery. They’d just be annoyed that I’d be taking up the bathroom.” “Maybe they noticed that I had black around my eye or little leftover remnants of makeup. “No one asked…ever,” she says with a laugh. And I was like, ‘So you really want me to just get more beat up, right?’ I felt like my parents unintentionally dressed me up very feminine, and they didn’t even realize it.”Įven today, Colby doesn’t believe her family understood what she was doing in the bathroom. Then they’d put me in these little shorts that no other boy was wearing. I had green eyes, pretty fair skin, and was femme-presenting. “In elementary school, I was already a blond kid in the middle of Hawaii. “The funny thing is how my parents would dress me,” Colby reflects. For Colby, her journey in the world of drag - and as a transgender woman - is stitched into her garments.īeginning with her youth in Hawaii, Colby formed a lifelong relationship with clothes as a means of gender expression and freedom. She had already won the famed Miss Continental pageant, developed relationships with high-profile designers, and mothered several drag children - including season 14 star Kerri Colby. Sasha Colby was introduced on season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race as a certified drag legend.
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