natina
05-09-2011, 10:39 PM
Tortillas and Trannies at Dallas Taquerías
Transgender "travesty shows" help fill the seats at Dallas taquerías.
"Pistol-whipping" dick jokes, littered with chingas and pinches, spill from the glossy lips of an eye-poppingly beautiful woman in a rat-a-tat rhythm that keeps time with her hips as they shake to the beat of a Selena Gomez (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Selena+Gomez) song. Colored lights above the corner stage whir back and forth, accentuating her dance moves at a taquería in East Dallas.
The restaurant, one-room Los Altos (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Los+Altos) de Jalisco (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Jalisco) on Abrams Road, is decorated with beer flags and framed pastoral scenes leading back to a galley kitchen, where the cook is better at flirting with the waitress than reheating tortillas. It's a sleepy place during lunch hours, when, if more than one table is occupied, it's a rush. But that's not uncommon among the scores of tiny taco shops across the city. The only thing that makes Los Altos stand out from other taco joints is the white delivery van parked outside. Pasted on its sides are colorful ads for weekend drag shows.
Somehow, the brightly made-up images of women who were once men don't attract much of a lunchtime clientele. At night, it's a different world.
The woman on stage this night is Gaby Duarte (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Gaby+Duarte), one of the most acclaimed acts in the small DFW transgender and drag show (called travesty shows) circuit, who can pack a restaurant from wall to wall.
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http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14//tacos-y-mas.6295457.40.jpg (http://www.hungangels.com/photoGallery/index/2178707/1)
http://media.dallasobserver.com/6304307.0.jpg (http://vimeo.com/23388798)
http://media.dallasobserver.com/6300926.0.jpg
(http://www.dallasobserver.com/slideshow/taqueria-drag-shows-full-access-33210210/)
http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14//tacos-y-mas.6295456.40.jpg (http://www.hungangels.com/photoGallery/index/2178707/0)
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-05-05/news/tacos-y-mas/
Transgender "travesty shows" help fill the seats at Dallas taquerías.
"Pistol-whipping" dick jokes, littered with chingas and pinches, spill from the glossy lips of an eye-poppingly beautiful woman in a rat-a-tat rhythm that keeps time with her hips as they shake to the beat of a Selena Gomez (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Selena+Gomez) song. Colored lights above the corner stage whir back and forth, accentuating her dance moves at a taquería in East Dallas.
The restaurant, one-room Los Altos (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Los+Altos) de Jalisco (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Jalisco) on Abrams Road, is decorated with beer flags and framed pastoral scenes leading back to a galley kitchen, where the cook is better at flirting with the waitress than reheating tortillas. It's a sleepy place during lunch hours, when, if more than one table is occupied, it's a rush. But that's not uncommon among the scores of tiny taco shops across the city. The only thing that makes Los Altos stand out from other taco joints is the white delivery van parked outside. Pasted on its sides are colorful ads for weekend drag shows.
Somehow, the brightly made-up images of women who were once men don't attract much of a lunchtime clientele. At night, it's a different world.
The woman on stage this night is Gaby Duarte (http://www.hungangels.com/related/to/Gaby+Duarte), one of the most acclaimed acts in the small DFW transgender and drag show (called travesty shows) circuit, who can pack a restaurant from wall to wall.
http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14//6295574.87.jpg
http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14//tacos-y-mas.6295457.40.jpg (http://www.hungangels.com/photoGallery/index/2178707/1)
http://media.dallasobserver.com/6304307.0.jpg (http://vimeo.com/23388798)
http://media.dallasobserver.com/6300926.0.jpg
(http://www.dallasobserver.com/slideshow/taqueria-drag-shows-full-access-33210210/)
http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e14//tacos-y-mas.6295456.40.jpg (http://www.hungangels.com/photoGallery/index/2178707/0)
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-05-05/news/tacos-y-mas/