Beyoncé is unparalleled. In a coup, secured an exclusive interview for our May 2014 Power issue, beating out even . “Getting Beyoncé for felt like an endorsement of the magazine’s place as a cultural force, and while she did not identify as queer, there was no question that she resonated in the lives of queer people, as Madonna had a generation earlier. She was an outsider who had worked to make her success,” Hicklin says. “That she’d done so without compromise was — is — simply inspiring.” And she’s not the only one. As arguably the most renowned Beyoncé impersonator, Miss Shalae knows how to hold a room. She astounded Beyoncé herself in a moment that’s been immortalized in the documentary but has moved crowds time after time as a legend in the ballroom scene walking the category of face. As the overall mother of ballroom’s House of Basquiat, she is power incarnate.
