BALTIMORE -- Phillip Brown wanted to throw out all the tricks when opening at The Manor for Symone, the season 13 winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
The energetic drag queen knew that a 360 jump split, which requires him to leap in the air, make a full turn and land in a split, would win over the crowd that the headliner had attracted to the gay restaurant and lounge in Mount Vernon. Brown, whose drag name is Bambi Ferrah, had performed the trick in more than a dozen past performances.
But something about that day last June was awry. He knew it in midair, when a patron stepped into his landing area.
