He’d runĪround Boston with his friends using the nom de drag Giselle Peacock, the very I didn’t evenįalse eyelashes and high heels to come out after Donigan came out.

He said to me, ‘Baby, you should look into it.’ ‘there’s this show that’s like America’s Next Top Model, but with drag It was 2009 and there was a new show on television that had all the dramaĪnd flair of figure skating, just minus the ice.Ĭoach Tom Lescinski who told me about the show,” says Donigan. Staff that it was time to take the leap…and not in the form of a triple toe Turned old enough to drink that he received a wink and nod from the coaching And despite the sport’s reputation for having a higher thanĪverage amount of gay men, he wasn’t out yet. He’d long been drawn to the camp elements of the sport as well as mostĪny other over-the-top aspect of everything from ballroom dancing to salsaĬompetitions.

It was a sign of things to come as Donigan competed inįabulous costumes bedazzled with stones as he glided across the ice, mixingĪrtistry and athleticism, but in this case performing axels rather than deathĭrops. Of Boston, where legends of the sport like Dick Button and Tenley Albright are N.Y., Donigan moved to Boston where he trained at the prestigious Skating Club Way to the biggest stage in the world for draq queens, a creative endeavor he’d That spinning all the way out to Provincetown would have him sashaying all the Figure Skating Championships in the junior ice dance division, but afterĪll that intense competition it was time for a break. Just a couple of years prior he’d qualified for the Dan Donigan arrived here inĢ011 to join the staff at the Marc by Marc Jacobs store, ready for whateverĬame his way that summer. Change your life in completely unexpected ways.

A milk drag queen