Big Head DC can now exclusively confirm that Mayor Adrian Fenty has chosen drag queen Cookie Buffet to be the interim director of Washington’s Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Affairs.

The man behind the Cookie, Christopher Dyer, told us this afternoon that he’s soon heading to New York to take in an opera and enjoy his “last weekend of freedom” before beginning the new job.

Despite his namesake, the plump power broker promises to be anything but cookie-cutter, and has long been used to tapping on the drag queen glass ceiling. “A typical performance by Cookie Buffet is NOT a typical drag performance,” according to CB’s Wikipedia entry. “Dyer usually does very little to effectively present a feminine image, generally wearing shapeless dresses coupled with a beehive wig and untraditional make-up reminiscent of the character Mimi from The Drew Carey Show.” Read more…

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We’re told that DC’s second most famous drag queen might have secured a temporary seat on the mayor’s council. Wonder how many cookies he had to eat to get her to agree?

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