By Jeannie

 

                                Photos by James Belzer & Jerry Jakson

 

The costumes were as spectacular as ever, the contestants were magnificent but the weather was iffy, the threat of rain in the late afternoon looming overhead. In fact it all went well until the clouds came and they began to rush through the closing crowning ceremonies causing some chaos in the dressing rooms and onstage as all the contestants reappeared just when the skies opened.

 

But it didn’t rain on their parade - here are the winners:

Miss FI Vita Summers

Ms. FI Donna Piranha 

Entertainer of the Year Kendra H. Kinx

Miss FI All Star Yuhua Hamasaki

 

Crowning their successors were 2014 winners Brenda Dharling Miss FI Whore D’Oeuvre, Ms. FI (also Homecoming Queen 2014) and

Jada Balenciaga Entertainer of the Year

 

The emcees Logan Hardcore, Porsche, Ariel Sinclair were in celebratory gold; Special effects by DJs Chuck McTague and Richard Kennedy.

 

Other winners were:  

Honey Davenport, the reigning Miss Cherry’s, now also Miss Cherry Grove, Holly Dae, named Miss Ice Palace,

The runners-up to Miss FI; Lady Ivana, the new Ms. Cherry Grove

Leontyne Rice, the Most Popular, or audience favorite, who, dressed as Turandot, sang “Nessun dorma,” from “Turandot,”

Zola, Judges’ Award

Lee Lee Heavenly, the Absolut Award singing and dancing “Proud Mary, Monet X Change, the Coors Light Award.

Other contestants for Miss FI,

Alexia-Nycole Davenport, Champagne Bubbles, Victoria Falls, Sasha Storm, Kara Sucia, veteran Grovite China, and Stefani Victoria Spears.
For the Entertainer Award,  Saline Dijon, singing “River Deep, Mountain High;”

Judy Darling, in green face as the Wicked Witch of the West

Billy Little as Wanda Sykes;

Carey Frost, doing “The Lion King,” with a live cat  

Kashi Go’Lean, “Let’s Get Physical,” doing her exercise routine, and distributed snacks;

Terra Grenade, a Madonna/Marilyn Monroe

Asiana Airline as a harem girl

Dirty Dixie Normous

Delfina, as Bette Midler “When a Man Loves a Woman;”

Schwa De Vivre,  “Fabulous, Baby!”

Pearl, as Janis Joplin, “Piece of My Heart.”

Other contestants for Ms. FI

YaNeeda Dunes and Beach DeBree, (Homecoming Queens 2011 and 2010)

 

The contestants for Miss FI All Star

Stephanie Stone, Miss FI 2007

Nikki Starr, 2003;

Renée Flaming.2009

 

Crowning moment at end of event!

 

The requisite National Anthem

 

And the winners are…………

 

Miss Ice Palace

 

Entertainer of the Year

 

 

 

Vita summers miss f I

 

Beach deBree & Yaneeda Dune

 

Miss F I 2014

 

Miss Vita (Miss F I) perform the coronation

 

Jada Balenciaga Entertainer of year 2014 performs

 

Lee Lee Heavenly Miss Coors 2015

 

Honey Davenport - Miss Cherry Grove 2015

 

Zola

 

Leontyne Rice

 

Rita & China

 

Miss Cherry Grove

 

Miss Ice Palace

 

Ms Fire Island Donna

 

Porsche

 

Yuhua Hamasaki FI All Star 2015

 

Donna Piranha Ms. Fire Island 2015

 

Ariel performs…

 

And awards 10 years Broadway at Beach Brandon Cutrell

 

Ms CG Lady Ivana

 

Miss Ice Palace- Holly Day

 

Careful…nearly lost all those Queens in the Bay

 

Miss Fire Island Vita Summers

 

Miss Fire Island All Star

 

A proposal!!! You go, girl

 

Ms. Fire Island Donna Piranha

 

The Winners!!!  Congrats, girls!

 

The rewards:

Miss FI $1,200 prize; Entertainer $800; Miss FI All Star $750; Ms. FI $300; Miss Cherry Grove $500 and the rest: Ms. Cherry Grove, Miss Ice Palace, the Judges Award $150 each, Most Popular $200, and the Sponsors’ favorites $100 apiece.

 

Considering how small are the monetary awards versus the cost of the  lavish costumes, travel expenses, room and board and so forth,

the wearing of the crown for a year and righteously earned life long bragging rights are priceless.

 

Your Majesty ………………