"BARBADOS.. ." A CONVERSATION WITH DIVA ALEXANDER 21

 bisexual but they will still do stuff with a man. I say basically hey, I've
 never been attracted to women. Never slept with one. Never had the
 inclination to go with one. So how do you juggle two sexes at the
 same time? It must be tremendous. It must be a real burden. I'm not
 knocking anybody. Everybody has their own thing. I believe that if the
 laws would allow people to be open, we wouldn't have a problem
 with being bisexual, not knowing who's gay.
CG- Do you jump? [participate in a band in the Cropover carnival]
DA- I used to. I don't any more.
CG- Why did you stop?
DA- It's no fun anymore to me. The last year thatI jumped, I had five men
 on me. I could not get away. No. I thought that if they had the chance
 they would drag me off and do something really mean to me. So I
 said, "uh, uh. No more for me. "I prefer to watch, and besides, Queen
 Elizabeth doesn't jump in a band. I don't need that. It's fun to watch
 and the sweatiness. I can't deal with that. You get TB that way.
 Now I'm going back to our show. When we first started, our ultimate
 aim was to look feminine. You know the epitome of womanhood. We
 found that if your lash was hanging, or your wig was twisted, people
 liked that. Bianca tries to be very perfect. Bianca is an Aries. Bianca
 likes to be perfect. Me now, I look glam, but if my nail is coming off I
 don't mind. I mean, there are many times that I took my wig off if it
 was shifted. There's a little thing that I do now. I ask if there is a wig
 dresser in the house, a hairstylist. Isay, "well honey, do my hair!! And
 I take the wig off and give it to her." People like that. We need to stop
 being so serious about it. Just bring it down a little bit for a laugh. lam
 a big clown. I love RuPaul. RuPaul to me ... has a spirit that a lot of
 drag or transgendered people do not have. I love RuPaul. It is RuPaul
 who tends to propel me into this whole thing 'cause I wouldn't have
 done it before. I was scared to go out like that. I had always had this
 feminine thing but I would never go on stage in a dress and perform,
 but honey once I started, it was making money. Let's go. But I love
 RuPaul. I think RuPaul is fabulous and I think RuPaul has done a lot.
 There are a lot of people who do not like RuPaul in the States I
 understand. They should say hey, RuPaul has caused a revolution
 somewhat. So don't look at it that way. Why hold a grudge? It's like
 the gay people here. They grudge each other Most of them don't like
 me because I don't go out and hang out. I don't go out and hang out at
 the bars hahahahaha. Or they say, "You think that you're so posh. "I
 know my place. It's Bajan, but still. What I'm saying is that if Igo to a
 gay club or a gay bar. It's like,