How Drag Queen Ms. Demure's Love of Community Has Helped Queer Dayton
Harper’s Bazzaroworld Presents the Ms. Demure Show on DATV is hailed as the oldest LGBTQ+ public access variety talk show in the country.Demure, 55, has created a show that is an act of love for her community.
It features interviews with community members and celebrities, performances by herself and others, puppet shows, and whatever else the tenured host can think up.Show business was always the goal, Demure says.
However, it wasn’t until she was 32 that she stepped into the drag scene and found her ticket to stardom.“I’ve been going out to the bars for decades,” Demure says. “I had lost a lot of weight, and I was sort of rebooting myself, hitting the reset button.”She says she needed something to take her to the next level, and so she started performing in drag.
Eventually, she decided that she needed her own niche, and as a devoted public access television viewer with a background in broadcasting, community television was an obvious choice.Ms.
