Thanks to all who have
visited my website since it first appeared on the net in 1995, but its
time to draw the curtain closed.
From my humble
beginnings in Drag in Newcastle and Sydney NSW in 1986, then performing in
Joannies Follies in Brisbane from Aug 1993 to April 1994,
moving on to Dial A Drag Queen doing private
parties which I closed in 2000.
My foray into TV was when my dear friend Lucy
Lockjaw invited me onto her show "The Lucy Lockjaw Show" as an extra in April
1996 in episode 13,
through to January 1997 when she decided to move
on, leaving me to either give it away or resurrect the show in my own name till
its demise in March 2004 369 episodes later
My first website appeared on the net at this poor
old address http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9521 in 1997 but of course Geocities is no more,
I bought my own domain in 1998 drag.com.au in
1998. My first email address was tamara@innocent.com
bah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There were 369 episodes of Tamara Tonite produced
and broadcast on Briz 31, at the time it was the longest running privately made
show on
Community Television in Australia, it may still be
that.
I also produced 26 episodes of The Beastly
Beauties http://www.beastlybeauties.com
you can still
download the episodes of that at that show at
that link. These were also broadcast in
Melbourne.
During my time I also ran for Lord Mayor of
Brisbane in 2000 and in Local Govt in the seat of Brisbane Central.
After The Beastly Beauties I never worked as a
Drag Queen again, and now dont even own so much as high heel or a tube of
lipstick.
I
never actually finished this site to my liking, so deconstructed it to
a point.
Videos
that used to be on the websites of
Tamara's Kitchen, Burls Kitchen, Down on Lucies Farm, and all the drag
numbers that
used to be
on the show can be found here Tamaras Video
Copies of my show are stored at the Australian
National Film and Sound Archives.
Thanks to everyone who helped it all to happen, it
was fun.
Love
Tamara Tonite.