Walter Cole blazed a trail that drag queens, gay men and many others would follow — embodying Darcelle’s epithet of “the bold, the blonde and the beautiful.”
PORTLAND, Ore. — Dubbed “the bold, the blonde and the beautiful,” Darcelle XV left life’s stage this week at the age of 92 after a life well-lived in the city she loved.
“Darcelle always loved Portland, a native Portlander who grew up in Linnton and he always wore that as a badge of pride wherever he traveled,” Kevin Cook told KGW on Friday.
Cook is known on stage as Poison Waters. He said he learned a lot
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