This year, the news media has been

This year, the news media has been focused on the Presidential election, and understandably so. Here in North Carolina, we’ve also been bombarded with ads about candidates for

Jim Longworth Congress, Senate,

Longworth at Large and State legislature. But ask most people who’s running for State Insurance Commissioner, and you’ll get a blank stare. It’s ironic because very few elected o cials have more impact over our everyday lives than does the Insurance Commissioner. During a recent taping of Triad Today, I spoke with Mike Causey, the current Commissioner, and Wayne Goodwin, who preceded Mike in that job and now wants it back.

JL: Most folks aren’t aware of all the things that the State Insurance Commissioner regulates, and the responsibilities he has.

MC: When I was campaigning in 2016, I’d go around the State and introduce the issues that are on the ballot and look less at the personality of the people on the ballot. If we can do that, and continue to do that, then North Carolina will not only be a battleground state, we will be a state that can set the tone, pace and agenda for what the rest of the country could look like.”

“We are existing on a deeply uneven playing fi eld that is designed to make us feel alone, and that change is impossible or blame ourselves for problems— to me one of the antidotes to hopelessness is community,” St. Louis said. “Kay has a stake in my freedom as a trans woman, I have a stake in Kay’s freedom as a single Black momma of two incredible children— that breaking of isolation is really critical; to realize we are not alone, and that when things are set up against us, we have the tool of people power to win. And that is what you get when you join an organization like Guilford For All.”

Dear reader, if you are like me, you may fi nd yourself leaning into the feeling of hopelessness and let headlines ruin your day and further discourage you. All while complaining about nothing changing and idly standing by.

To that, I have only this to say:

Snap out of it and get to work.

Voter disillusionment is what keeps the myself. I’d say, “Hi I’m Mike Causey and I’m running for State Insurance Commissioner.” And people would say, “Well, what kind of insurance do you sell?” And I’d tell them, “We don’t sell insurance, we regulate it.” Folks just don’t know what all falls under the Department of Insurance. The Commissioner is also the State Fire Marshal, overseeing all fi re departments and fi re training. We’re over engineering codes and building code inspections. We regulate manufacturers of modular homes and mobile homes, which is a huge industry in our State.

WG: The Insurance Commissioner’s o ce has fairly broad regulatory authority. Not just about regulating insurance agents, but insurance companies and insurance rates. You also regulate bail bondsmen and collections agents. You provide education about Medicare for every senior citizen in the State.

MC: We also have sworn law enforcement o cers to investigate fraud and arson. In fact, North Carolina was the fi rst State in the nation to put sworn o cers in the Department of Insurance.

WG: It’s a huge o ce with great responsibility. careless and power-hungry in o ce for decades without any change. “As a single mom, I used to think, out of everyone that could be listened to in the city, why do they want to listen to me?’ I had to take a step back and realize, nobody advocates better for you than you, nobody is better to speak to your people than you if you are of your people. If you feel called to serve, it is a duty to serve your people. The change starts with you,” Brown said. “People think that you have to be able to move mountains to get change. Now, it may feel that way on a national scale, but on a local scale, it doesn’t take that. On the local level, it takes the engagement of citizens, even if there are citizens that people haven’t heard of before.”

To see what candidates G4A and FFF are endorsing and why, visit www.carolinafederation.org/2020-endorsements/ and to learn more about the organizations, follow them on social media, and learn more about the Carolina Federation, and sign up to be a volunteer online at

Mike Causey and Wayne Goodwin

Both men know something about responsibility. Before holding the Commissioner’s job, Causey was an Army veteran who came up through the ranks in the insurance industry, while Goodwin is an attorney who took on big corporations.

MC: No o ense to my attorney friends, but I think it’s a good idea to have an insurance commissioner who actually has experience in the insurance business. I’ve gone through the ranks as an agent, agency manager, superintendent of agencies, and I’ve been in all aspects of insurance. That not only helps me understand the agent’s point if view, it helps me understand the consumer’s point of view and what they have to go through. That’s why last year alone, we were able to help over 258,000 people in this State.

WG: During my two terms as Insurance Commissioner I saved us $2.4 billion, had refunds of $206 million, and we had the lowest car insurance premiums in the country right here in North Carolina because of the decisions I made.

JL: With all of the responsibility and stress that comes with the job of Insurance Commissioner, why do you want the job again?

WG: Because for as long as I can remember, even as a kid, my passion in life was I wanted to solve problems and help people.

MC: We had an agriculture commissioner years ago named Jim Graham, and he would tell everybody, “I love my job.” Well, that’s the same for me. I love my job and I love helping people.

For more information about Mike Causey and Wayne Goodwin, visit www.mikecauseync.com and www.waynegoodwin.org .

of Insurance, visit www.ncdoi.gov. ! JIM LONGWORTH is the host of “Triad Today,” airing on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on ABC45 (cable channel 7) and Sundays at 11am on WMYV (cable channel 15).

To learn more about the NC Department www.carolinafederation.org ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in fi lm studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

Chuck Shepherd

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS

Convicted drug smuggler Mike Gielen, 24, hired a helicopter at Deurne airport near Antwerp, Belgium, on Sept. 25, then hijacked the aircraft in mid-fl ight and forced

the pilot to fl y to Berkendaal women’s prison south of Brussels to free his wife, Kristel Appelt, 27, who is being held there on suspicion of murdering an ex-boyfriend, The Guardian reported. As inmates cheered and waved below, the pilot circled the prison yard, trying unsuccessfully to land, while Gielen put his head out of the chopper to vomit fi ve times, before giving up and fl ying o . Authorities arrested Gielen and several accomplices within 24 hours when they discovered he had used his real name to hire the helicopter. “It seems the whole thing has been staged quite amateurishly,” remarked Tom van Overbeke, Gielen’s attorney.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS

Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheri ’s deputies responding to reports of a domestic violence situation on Sept. 23 arrived at the apartment of Devon Garnett, 26, to fi nd Garnett and two friends, fans of the Tampa Bay Lightning, watching Game 3 of the Stanley Cup fi nals. Neighbors had become alarmed after hearing shouts of “Shoot! Shoot!” and “I dare you to shoot!” just before 8:30 that evening, reported the Associated Press. The deputies “thought there were guns in the house,” said Garnett, who told them, “Nope, we’re just screaming for Steven Stamkos.”

RECURRING THEMES

Voters in the village of Deveselu, Romania, reelected popular Mayor Ion Aliman to a third term in a landslide victory on Sept. 27 despite the fact that Aliman had died of COVID-19 10 days before the election. The Associated Press reported that word of the mayor’s passing had spread fast among the village’s 3,000 residents, but his name still appeared on the ballots, and many villagers used the vote as an opportunity to honor Aliman, who would have celebrated his 57th birthday on election day. After the results were revealed, many villagers went to his grave to pay respects and light candles, saying, “We will make you proud” and “This is your victory.”

COMPELLING EXPLANATION

After throwing a Bible that struck a Marion County (Florida) Sheri ’s deputy in the face, Robert Otis Hoskins, 39, of Summerfi eld, told o cers that God had directed him to break into his neighbors’ home and free their young daughter, according to authorities. WKMG-TV reports police were responding to reports of a burglary on Sept. 22 when they encountered Hoskins, who emerged from the house next door wearing nothing but briefs and yelling something like, “I condemn you!” before throwing the Bible. O cers tased him and took him into custody; Hoskins’ wife told deputies he “does have a drug problem,” according to the arrest report, and the alleged victim said about $50 worth of clothing had been stolen. Hoskins was booked on multiple charges.

LATEST HUMAN RIGHTS

A High Court judge in Liverpool, England, has rejected Cheryl Pile’s attempt to sue the Liverpool Police for violating her rights in April 2017 when four female o cers changed her out of the clothes she had vomited on, reports the BBC. Calling the o cers’ actions “an act of decency,” the judge noted that Pile, who later paid a fi ne for being drunk and disorderly, was “too insensible with drink to have much idea of either where she was or what she was doing there,” and would otherwise have been left “to marinade overnight in her own bodily fl uids.”

BAD BEHAVIOR

CNN reports a 32-year-old unnamed Irishman was charged with vandalism after being caught on Sept. 21 carving his fi rst and last initials into a pillar on the fi rst fl oor of the Colosseum in Rome. The structure, which has stood for two millennia, is a World Heritage Site, and Italian law calls for a hefty fi ne or prison sentence for damaging a historical and artistic landmark. Archaeologist Federica Rinaldi, who is responsible for the Colosseum, suggested it would be better to “take a selfi e” than to carve into the amphitheater’s walls.

ANNULS OF TECHNOLOGY

— Taro Kono, Japan’s new minister for administrative reform, is wasting no time in starting his crusade to cut down on bureaucratic red tape, reports The Japan Times, and among his fi rst targets is the fax machine, which is still in use in more than 95% of businesses in Japan. “I don’t think there are many administrative procedures that actually need printing out paper and faxing,” Kono said on Sept. 25. A day after being appointed to his new job, Kono created a red-tape hotline on his website, inviting public input, that had to be shut down the next day after receiving more than 4,000 responses. — Keith Bebonis knows a secret about the Chicago Police Department, reported the Chicago Sun-Times on Sept. 25: They still use typewriters. Bebonis knows because he repairs them when the o cers “abuse” them. “Police o cers, in general, are very heavy typists,” said Bebonis, 46, who carries on the business his dad started in the late 1960s, Bebon O ce Machines and Supplies. He contracts every year to repair 40 to 50 IBM Wheelwriters — early word-processing machines that can store a few pages’ worth of data. “I don’t want it to seem like I’m saying they’re taking their frustrations out on the typewriter,” Bebonis said. “But they’re just not very sensitive with these machines.” ! © 2020 Chuck Shepherd. Universal Press Syndicate. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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‘The big, bold and beautiful’ bearded drag of Kay Kay Lavelle

*Editor’s note: October is LGBTQIA+ History Month, and to celebrate YES! Weekly will be spotlighting local folks from the LGBTQ IA+ community.

Katie Murawski Kay Kay Lavelle is a

Editor Greensboro-based drag queen and superstar on the rise, who has already helped usher in her art form of bearded drag into the mainstream. This year, in particular, has been devastating to the LGBTQIA+ and drag communities. Like Lavelle and other full-time drag entertainers across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic threw the proverbial pearls, knocking them fi nancially unstable and unemployed. But, like the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole, Lavelle is resilient.

Lavelle has been doing drag for seven years, and was born in Shelby, North Carolina, moved to Orlando, Florida, to work at Disney, and then settled down in Greensboro in 2016.

Lavelle said while at Disney, she had to adhere to a strict facial hair policy, so she had to keep her beard— but at the same time, she started getting interested in doing drag.

“I liked the way I looked with a beard better, so I didn’t want to sacrifi ce that much for drag,” she said. “At the end of the day, outside of drag, I still have to have confi dence; I still have to live my life.” At Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub, Lavelle’s regular spot before the deadly massacre in 2016, she attributes male entertainer and Pulse’s talent show host, Axel Andrews, as being the person who encouraged her to start performing as a bearded drag queen.

Andrews invited Lavelle to perform in the talent show, and after she said she couldn’t because she didn’t want to have to shave, “he said, ‘well then don’t shave.’ And I was like what? I had never seen a bearded queen.”

Lavelle took his advice, which ended up being well-received by the audience. Now, as a full-time bearded drag queen, Lavelle can’t look back. Her beard is an integral part of her drag persona, and it holds an even more sentimental value when she is performing.

“It is one of those things that are sentimental because the last time I performed at Pulse, before the shooting, I had a beard,” she said. “So, it is almost like if I do shave, and I am on stage, my angels won’t recognize me.”

Lavelle said that she was supposed to go to Pulse for a friend’s birthday party the night of the shooting that claimed 49 lives and injured 53 others, but was running late and decided not to go. After hearing the news, she was devastated, scared, and said she su ered from survivor’s guilt coupled with anxiety and PostTraumatic Stress Disorder. The tragedy didn’t end Lavelle’s dreams of being on stage, but it rea rmed her mission with her drag, which is “doing the things for people who can’t.”

“Whenever someone tells you that you can’t do something, you’re going to have to do it anyway,” Lavelle said. “Sometimes, when you don’t fi t into places, you have to make yourself fi t in there anyway.”

Being a bearded drag queen didn’t come without criticism from those who think drag is a cookie-cutter art form— where everyone looks and performs gender the same. When Lavelle started competing in pageants, she said she took a lot of fl ak from other performers critiquing her beard. Lavelle proved them all wrong when she placed in the Top 3 at one pageant.

“Doing bearded drag, you are always told, you’d look so much better without the beard— they don’t even get why I do the beard, they think it’s out of laziness, but it’s not the case,” she added. “For me, I can do everything that your ‘normal drag queen’ would do. I just happen to have a beard.”

Lavelle said bearded drag is deeply rooted in LGBTQ history, citing the infl uence of The Cockettes, a San Franciscan drag/theatre troupe in the 1960s that challenged societal norms through gender-fuck performances that included bearded queens. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Cockettes’ infl uence even paved the way for the ‘70s glam rock aesthetic and even the cult-classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. “[Bearded drag] has been around for a long time,” Lavelle said. “It is nothing new, the way it is breaking barriers is new, and the way that it is growing is new.”

Lavelle said her beard isn’t a protest; it’s her badge of pride.

“I think my favorite part about it— I want to say it’s like a big middle fi nger, but it’s not, being who you are shouldn’t be a middle fi nger to anybody,” she said. “It’s almost like a pride fl ag; my beard is like my fl ag.”

Lavelle said she had sold shots at Castle McCulloch events, and whenever she’s there, her beard and make-up turns everyone’s heads. “They are like, ‘whoa!’ And I think, oh, here it comes they are going to slap the shots out of my hand or beat me up or something,” Lavelle said. “But then they are like, ‘I am confused, bro, you have a beard, but like, you are so fucking pretty, I love it.’ It’s almost like challenges cisgender, heterosexual men to stop and think. It gives them the food for thought to experiment with their sexuality, too.”

Before the wave of COVID cancella-

tions, Lavelle was set to compete in the National Bearded Empress pageant, which is exclusively for performers who have beards or perform bearded drag.

“It spoke to me because I competed in National Entertainer of the Year in 2018— I was the fi rst bearded queen to qualify and compete at that pageant because I went to North Carolina Entertainer of the Year,” Lavelle explained. “I qualifi ed, and then I had to go to Nationals. And they are scary because all the pageant girls are rich, skinny and pretty.”

Lavell said she was the fi rst bearded queen to compete in the history of that pageant’s system, and that she qualifi ed for the same pageant that RuPaul’s Drag Race queens like Trinity “The Tuck” Taylor, Shangela and Nina West had competed.”

“For me to be there and earned my way there, [proved] that I can do everything that they can, the only thing I had di erent was a beard.”

Mainstream media isn’t sleeping on bearded queens anymore. The Boulet Brothers helped break barriers when they featured the bearded Ursula Major on the fi rst season of their creepy, alternative drag competition show, Dragula. And now, the cast of Drag Race Holland includes the bearded beauty, Madame Madness.

“I haven’t watched yet, but I have seen the promo pictures for the season and am so excited for them!” Lavelle said of Madame Madness on Drag Race Holland. “I think it shows a lot about the United States version that after 12 (13 if you count the season that just fi lmed but it’s not public knowledge yet) we still don’t have a bearded queen. Yet, one season of Drag Race Holland and they already have one. But change is coming to the United State’s Drag Race— I just can’t comment on exactly what, since it hasn’t released info yet. I can’t wait to see some muchneeded change in the upcoming seasons.”

Lavelle has traveled extensively as a professional drag queen and has even hosted shows at big-city venues such as Rock Bar in New York City. Even though she loves living and performing in Greensboro, she knows she is a big fi sh in a little pond. “I defi nitely think everything in life can be a stepping stone— it is for me, drag is so nice because it is so di erent everywhere,” Lavelle said. “If you go to New York, they have one costume, one hair, and one look. And then you come here, and every number has to be a di erent costume and a di erent look, di erent everything. It is almost more expensive here, in a way— that is why I like jumping to all of these places because I pick up something new every city that I go to. I feel like it is rounding me out to be the

best entertainer I can be.”

But her work isn’t done in Greensboro just yet, “I want to plant seeds everywhere I live, and I want to make sure I have plans to water the seeds.”

In her travels, Lavelle also noted that it’s been important for her to learn the history of each drag scene she visits, and one day, she hopes to help create a drag almanac or encyclopedia so she can document her observations of each scene. She said as someone part of the LGBTQIA+ community, knowing the history and learning from it is crucial these days.

“We have this really nice generation right here at us, that they were here for Stonewall, they were here the AIDS epidemic, they were here for all of that,” she said. “We need to hurry up and get that information so we can pass it down. It is important not to forget. If you forget where you came from, how do you know where you are going?”

Lavelle likes to think of herself as a drag queen of the people, for the people and by the people.

“Without the people, you wouldn’t be a queen—if there is no kingdom, then you literally can’t have a queen. What are you going to be the queen of, your bedroom, your shower?” she said. “The business that booked me, how would they stay in business if they didn’t have this many people to support me?”

Lavelle said drag queens are innately

Kay Kay Lavelle performing at Greensboro’s Chemistry Nightclub

political, in that the art form of drag itself started as a political movement.

“It has always been trans women and drag queens that have been [at the forefront] of movements,” she said. “People look up to us whenever there is a big event, and it is our job to say, ‘this is not right.’ It is important to use the platform you are given; you have to be thankful for it, and use it because it could be taken away as easily.”

This mentality, coupled with the reality that LGBTQIA+ civil rights are literally hanging by a thread in this country’s current administration— inspired her to join forces with other Ru Paul’s Drag Race queens as a drag ambassador for “Drag Out the Vote.” According to a press release, Drag Out the Vote’s mission is to “educate, register, and turn out voters with the art and activism of drag.”

Lavelle was chosen by a group of cochairs that includes Drag Race alumni Phi Phi O’Hara and Brita Filter, to work along with other drag artists in the country to amplify “messages to get people out to vote, as well as sharing resources to make sure all of our voices are heard at the polls this fall.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most venues have been closed, and all of Lavelle’s planned events— the National Bearded Empress pageant, Orlando bear festival Tidal Wave, and the Charlotte ComiCon Drag Show— were canceled due to the pandemic.

“It has landed me raggedy,” she said of its fi nancial impact. “It has canceled every large event that I had, and I laugh through the pain. I can’t throw a pity party because I am not alone; it is not just me.”

In the meantime, Lavelle has kept herself busy by starting a side business called “Bearded Bling,” where she makes and sells drag jewelry, and earlier this spring, she even dipped her toes into the digital drag world.

“I had a psychic recently tell me, ‘you have to stop being so scared, you are being so anxious and are missing opportunities,’” Lavelle said. “It has been tough for everybody, luckily I was able to make ends meet, and I was invited to do the Digital Drag Fest.”

Ran by PEG Management, and almost exclusively booked with drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Lavelle found herself as the sole bearded queen, and one of the only non-Drag Race queens at the digital show, held March 27-May 30.

“That was a cool opportunity to show that I can run with the big girls, so to speak,” Lavelle said of the experience. I was able to make money, and it was cool because I was able to perform in a way I haven’t performed before. I was able to reach people from all over the world.”

In a post-COVID world, Lavelle said she has so many plans and exciting opportunities coming up, including several special projects and collaborations with Drag Race stars, gigs in Canada, and the 2021 National Bearded Empress pageant.

“It has been tough, but I think the coolest part of the LGBTQ+ community and especially a lot of entertainers, we are resilient as hell. We can go through some stu and keep going,” Lavelle said. “I can’t help but feel we are on to something new, but great. It is like a butterfl y feeling— we were squiggling along like a caterpillar, and all of a sudden, it wasn’t up to us, but we got trapped in a cocoon, literally. Now, we are fi nally breaking out, and I feel like we are going to be bigger, bolder and more beautiful than we were before.”

Lavelle would like to give a special shout-out to ArtsGreensboro, Raleigh’s Visual Art Exchange, The Stonewall Inn in New York City for the grants that have helped keep her afl oat during this unprecedented health and economic crisis.

Follow KayKay Lavelle on social media to keep up with one of the Triad’s most beloved, big, bold, and beautiful bearded drag queen. ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor-in-chief of YES! Weekly. Her alter egos include The Grimberlyn Reaper, skater/public relations board chair for Greensboro Roller Derby, and Roy Fahrenheit, drag entertainer and selfproclaimed King of Glamp.