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Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

My newest character is named Melania Trump. You may have heard of her...

Lauren LoGiudicebyLauren LoGiudice
Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

Melania at Pride: Why I Dressed Up As the First Lady to Defend Freedom

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My newest character is named Melania Trump. You may have heard of her. I created her after a suggestion from a comedy club manager one night. I got off the stage at Joe Conklin’s show at Parx Casino and he said, “You have to do Melania”. I’m good at taking direction so 10 months later here I am at Pride holding a sign that says, “I also cried on election night” and having gay men scream at me, “Get that Melania realness, queen!”

One of the most fun parts is no one knew if I was a man in drag. One woman looked at my crotch and shouted, “Damn, you have it tucked forever.”  I never bothered to explain – why ruin all the fun?

A few people came up to me, held my hand and looked into my eyes, “I cried, too.”  They needed empathy and I gave that back to them. “When I get out of that white box of shit we all have parade!”

Everything that Pride stands for – freedom, expression, diversity – is under attack in this country. The one small thing I can do as an actor and comedian is to give people a brief moment to laugh. It’s perhaps divine retribution that the orange man leading the charge against our rights has a wife who always looks like she’d rather be anywhere else but with her husband.

 

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Lauren LoGiudice is an actor and comedian from Queens, New York. Lauren creates comedy through deeply flawed and painfully idiosyncratic characters. She has embodied some of the world’s most mysterious cultural icons, including Greta Garbo, Melania Trump, Mary Poppins, and all of the women in her Italian-American family. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hyperallergic, and La Voce di New York, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Follow her on Instagram @laurenlogi and find her at www.laurenlogi.com. Lauren LoGiudice is an actor and comedian from Queens, New York. Lauren creates comedy through deeply flawed and painfully idiosyncratic characters. She has embodied some of the world’s most mysterious cultural icons, including Greta Garbo, Melania Trump, Mary Poppins, and all of the women in her Italian-American family. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hyperallergic, and La Voce di New York, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Follow her on Instagram @laurenlogi and find her at www.laurenlogi.com.

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